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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: León Ferrari, Ressurrección, 1997 Photo: Edouard Fraipont
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León Ferrari Argentina, 1920-2013

Ressurrección, 1997
Relevo (Braile) sobre impressão fotográfica [Relief (Braille) on photo print]
41 x 28.7 cm [16 x 11 1/2 in.]
LF-0376

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EN León Ferrari's (1920-2013) practice is multiple and uses different languages such as drawing, sculpture, collage, assemblage and installation. From the 1960s onwards, the artist outlined the themes that...
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León Ferrari's (1920-2013) practice is multiple and uses different languages such as drawing, sculpture, collage, assemblage and installation. From the 1960s onwards, the artist outlined the themes that characterized his work: eroticism, religion and morality, as well as the repression of the state, the Catholic Church and the practices of colonialism and imperialism that institutionalized social injustices. Ferrari is, in all his forms, a tireless activist and researcher who has questioned the standardization of power structures and the verticality of social dynamics.

In his Untitled works, which began in the late 1990s, León Ferrari works with reproductions of religious, erotic or Art History images, over which he writes texts in Braille that he takes from the Bible. Opposing punitive Christian morality to sexual pleasure, the artist exhibits naked bodies, vultures and pre-Columbian ceramics, working with the idea of freedom of choice that is not limited to the rigid norms imposed by religion. On these images, Ferrari writes fragments of religious texts and poems in the dotted relief form of Braille in order to activate the pieces and call the fingertips to touch the works.

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A prática de León Ferrari (1920-2013) é múltipla e utiliza diferentes linguagens, como desenho, escultura, colagem, assemblage e instalação. A partir da década de 1960 o artista delineia os temas que caracterizaram sua obra: erotismo, religião e moral, bem como a repressão do Estado, da Igreja Católica e as práticas de colonialismo e Imperialismo que institucionalizaram injustiças sociais. Ferrari é, em todas as suas linguagens, um ativista e pesquisador incansável que questionou a normatização das estruturas de poder e a verticalidade das dinâmicas sociais.

Nas obras Sem título, iniciadas no final da década de 1990, León Ferrari trabalha com reproduções de imagens religiosas, eróticas ou da História da Arte, sobre as quais escreve textos em Braille que extrai da Bíblia. Opondo a moral cristã punitiva ao prazer sexual, o artista expõe corpos nus, urubus e cerâmicas pré-colombianas, trabalhando com a ideia de liberdade da escolha que não se limita à norma rígida imposta pela religião. Sobre essas imagens, Ferrari escreve fragmentos de textos religiosos e poemas na forma pontilhada em relevo do Braille com o intuito de ativar as obras e chamar as pontas dos dedos a percorrer com o tato os trabalhos.

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Exhibitions

Taller Ferrari. Centro Cultural de la Memoria Haroldo Conti: Buenos Aires, 23 de março a 26 de maio de 2013 [March 23rd to May 26th, 2023]
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