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Transient Roots: Lucía Pizzani and Vanessa da Silva

Past exhibition
29 April - 26 May 2022
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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Lucia Pizzani, CornBaston, 2022

Lucia Pizzani Venezuela, b. 1975

CornBaston, 2022
Stoneware black clay textured with corn
40 x 14 x 2 cm
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In Pizzani's stoneware works, she imprints plants onto soft clay, patterning the surface and recalling the Mayan creation myth Popol Vuh. In the myth, after failing in clay, the gods successfully mould humans using corn. Fashioning humanoid elements from elemental materials points to the beginnings of art in civilization. For Pizzani we start at the beginning, with the rising of the sun.
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In Pizzani's stoneware works, she imprints plants onto soft clay, patterning the surface and recalling the Mayan creation myth Popol Vuh. In the myth, after failing in clay, the gods successfully mould humans using corn. Fashioning humanoid elements from elemental materials points to the beginnings of art in civilization. For Pizzani we start at the beginning, with the rising of the sun.
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