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Woman spinning, 1988

Woman spinning, 1988
Woman spinning, 1988
Artist
Dellaporta Katerina
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Dellaporta Katerina

An educator as well as an artist, Katerina Dellaporta embarked on her artistic career by studying painting independently with Vangelis Moustakas and Thanasis Tsingos; she then studied fine arts at Canada College in California. After completing her studies in education in Greece, Dellaporta continued them at postgraduate level at Stanford University in the United States.Starting out in her early works from the distribution of the masses, based on the autonomous articulation of the members and inner movement, she advanced to a more markedly stylised sculpture, characterised by diachronicity and stoicism.Emblematic in style, her sculptures centre on the female form, stripped of superfluous details and simplified into generalised geometrical shapes. The curving lines of the female outline have now been replaced by a broad parallelogram plate, while the face's individual features have been altered into a unified circular membrane. In this stylised sculpture, the third dimension is almost completely absent; nevertheless, the bronze relief silhouettes take on a penetrative presence thanks to their full-frontal character, which forces the viewer to face up to and to come directly into confrontation with these  creations.

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Bronze
Dimensions
164X68X20
Source
Gift of the artist
Description
In spite of the fact that the women's bodies are static, movement is lent to the figures through the action of the hands, as in the case of Woman Spinning, which has been conceived with the hand raised at the moment when she is letting a ball of barbed wire hover. The artist uses plastic values (form, light, material) to render the human form in its entirety - physical and psychological - with a movement and rhythm which stresses its particularity, since the aim is a rendering of it at some given and unrepeatable moment.