BODY WORKS 1977
"Sure: such pictures will not be the same with another artist, with another option, however, even considered under a point of view of photographic document, Gretta's corporeal options reach an unusual efficacy. We are in front of a little common concomination, between the creative activity of an artist who knows how to enjoy the expressive dynamic and plastic possibilities of her body and the realization of a photographic documentation which remains autonomous as well as in its teckinal as in its esthetic values."
October, 1979 - Gillo Dorfles - essay published on the occasion of Gretta’s solo exhibition at the Centro Culturale La Filanda, Verano Italy
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Body Works XIV, 1977 (Printed in 2020)
Mineral pigment print on cotton paper, 41 x 55cm
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Body Works IV, 1977 (Printed in 2020)
Mineral pigment print on cotton paper, 35 x 55cm |
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Body Works XI, 1977(Printed in 2020)
Mineral pigment print on cotton paper, 20.51 x 55cm
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Body Works XIII, 1977(Printed in 2020)
Mineral pigment print on cotton paper, 25.77 x 55cm |
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Body Works XVII, 1977 (Printed in 2003)
Inkjet print on archival paper, 48 x 33cm
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Body Works XVI, 1977(Printed in 2020)
Mineral pigment print on cotton paper, 34.93 x 55cm |
And so these naked bodies also constitute a denunciation of the hedonistic and alienating practices to which the female form is submitted, a denunciation of the repression and mystification to which women's education exposes them from every direction. And they are an affirmation of the real sensuality of women, which respectability nonetheless still attempts to hide or to repress (the curtain or the mosquito net). And so, like gallery owner Romana Loda, we can quote Hugo Von Hofmannsthal when he said: "The profound should be hidden. Where? On the surface."
February 24, 1981 - Gina Avogadro - Ed.: Il Giorno, Italy "Personaggi - Within every woman there lies a tiger”
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