Mirella Bentivoglio

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Mirella Bentivoglio (born March 28, 1922 in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee , Austria ; † March 23, 2017 in Rome , Italy ) was an Italian poet of visual and concrete poetry . She was also a sculptor , performance artist and curator .

Career

Bentivoglio was born in Austria to Italian parents in 1922 and grew up in Milan . She studied languages ​​in Switzerland and London and used her father's library for further training during World War II . Since the 1970s, two symbols have determined Bentivoglio's work between image and language: the egg and the tree.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 1996: Mirella Bentivoglio: Dalla parola al simbolo Palazzo delle Esposizioni , Rome
  • 2015: Pages: Mirella Bentivoglio, Selected Works 1966-2012 Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont

Group exhibitions

  • 1994: 22nd São Paulo Biennial , São Paulo
  • 2003: Love And Joy About Letters-The Work Of Ben Shahn and Mirella Bentivoglio Montgomery Art Center, Claremont
  • 2010: Autoritratte (Female self portraits) / Sala delle Reali Poste Galleria degli Uffizi , Florence
  • 2013: Project Room. Fotografia dalle collezioni Centro de Arte Moderna e Contemporanea della Spezia (CAMeC), La Spezia
  • 2016: Concerning Concrete Poetry Badischer Kunstverein , Karlsruhe

literature

Mirella Bentivoglio: Pages: Selected Works 1966-2012 , Authors: Frances Pohl, Rosario Abate, Leslie Cozzi, Benjamin Kersten, John O'Brien, Franca Zoccoli and Mirella Bentivoglio, Foreword: Kathleen Howe, Pomona College Museum of Art (March 22, 2016) (English) ISBN 978-0-98562-5-160

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Addio alla poetessa, artista e critica d'arte Mirella Bentivoglio. In: rivistasegno.eu. March 24, 2017. Retrieved March 29, 2017 (Italian).
  2. ^ Lutto nel mondo dell'arte: si è spenta Mirella Bentivoglio. Suo il celebre “uovo” di via del Monte a Gubbio. In: trgmedia.it. March 23, 2017, accessed March 24, 2017 (Italian).
  3. ↑ Literary Mama Mother is an Artist: A Profile of Visual Poet Mirella Bentivoglio. In: literarymama.com. Retrieved February 8, 2017.
  4. ↑ Mirella Bentivoglio. In: Clara Database of woman artists. Retrieved February 8, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Bentivoglio, Mirella
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian poet of visual and concrete poetry
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt am Wörthersee , Austria
DATE OF DEATH 23rd March 2017
Place of death Rome , Italy