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Furo [Hole]
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Katie van Scherpenberg
(São Paulo, Brazil, 1940–)
NationalityBrazilian, South America
Date2004
MediumChine collé photo polymer gravure etching, colored à la poupée
DimensionsAdditional Dimension: 22 × 90 in. (55.9 × 228.6 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Flatbed Press and the artist, 2007.33.a-c
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2007.33.a-c
On View
Not on viewVan Scherpenberg’s work is an extended meditation on painting, landscape, time, material, and femininity. Furo is based on the photo documentation of the artist’s daylong intervention on a beach opposite Rio de Janeiro. She placed a mass of red pigment in a hole on the beach and observed for several hours as the tide came in. The interplay of pigment, sand, and water created a landscape “painting” that engaged in an organic dialogue with the beach’s spectacular surroundings.
Exhibitions
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