Ketty La Rocca

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Ketty La Rocca (born July 14, 1938 in La Spezia , † February 7, 1976 in Florence ) was an Italian concept , body art artist and poet of visual poetry .

Life

In 1964 La Rocca started making collages . Since the 1970s she has been developing her performative series in which she combined the language of the hands with words. La Rocca's research focuses on the language she deeply distrusted, the images and stereotypical signs of the everyday world with the aim of making the ruling politics of the body visible.

In 1972 she was represented at the Biennale di Venezia with the video Appendice per una supplica / Appendix for a petition . She also worked with mirror and metal objects, text paintings and individual letters made from black plastic. They are glued to the wall or placed freely in the room like sculptures. The "I" and the "J" stand for the English and French "I", respectively.

Ketty La Rocca's work Riduzioni was on view in 2015 at the exhibition Feminist Avant-garde of the 1970s in the Hamburger Kunsthalle . Other artists were u. a. Valie Export , Ana Mendieta , Lynda Benglis , Gina Pane , Eleanor Antin and Cindy Sherman .

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

  • Silvia Eiblmayr (ed.): Ketty La Rocca. Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck 2003, ISBN 3-9501195-2-3 .
  • Il mito ci sommerge (1966), Ed. Sampietro, Bologna
  • In principio erat (1971), Ed. Centro Di, Firenze
  • Appendice per una supplica (1972), Ed. Museum Am Ostwall, Dortmund
  • Ketty La Rocca, Monografia (1975), Ed. Museum Am Ostwall, Dortmund
  • Ketty La Rocca, Catalogo retrospettiva (1989), Ed. Carini, Firenze.
  • Ketty La Rocca, CD-Rom (1998)
  • Ketty La Rocca, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio La Spezia (1999)
  • Omaggio a Ketty La Rocca, Pacini Editore, Pisa (2001)
  • Ketty La Rocca, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck (2003)
  • Ketty La Rocca: I suoi scritti, a cura di Lucilla Saccà, Martano Editore, Torino (2005)
  • AA. VV., Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution, exh. cat., The Museum of Contemporary Art, LA and The MITT PRESS, Cambridge (2007), pp. 114-15, 289
  • AA.VV., Italics. Arte italiana fra tradizione e rivoluzione 1968–2008, exh. cat., Mondadori Electa, Milano (2008), p. 101
  • Del Becaro, Elena, Intermedialità al femminile: l'opera di Ketty La Rocca, Mondadori Electa, Milano (2008)
  • Rebel. Art & Feminism 1969-2009, (exh. Cat), MMKA, Arnhem, NL, pp. 220-221 (2009)
  • Donna: Avanguardia Femminista negli anni '70 dalla Collection Verbund di Vienna, (exh. Cat), Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna, Roma (2010), pp. 46-55, Electa.
  • Simone Marsi, Perdersi dentro casa. La storia che ha commosso il mondo di Ketty La Rocca, in Arabeschi, n.15, 2020, pp. 127-138. URL: http://www.arabeschi.it/numbers/arabeschi-n-15/

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Europeans Woman's Video Art Ketty La Rocca accessed on February 12, 2017. (English)
  2. ^ Georg Kargl Ketty La Rocca . Retrieved February 12, 2017.
  3. ↑ Gallery in the Taxispalais Ketty La Rocca ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 14, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.galerieimtaxispalais.at
  4. ↑ db aRTmAG Ketty La Rocca: The language of the hands. Retrieved February 12, 2017.
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personal data
SURNAME La Rocca, Ketty
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian concept, body art artist and poet of visual poetry
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH La Spezia
DATE OF DEATH 7th February 1976
Place of death Florence