Adriana Varejao - Polvo Tapa blanda - 2014

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New York: Lehmann Maupin, 2014. Softcover. As New. Color-illus. wraps; French flaps. Black lettering on spine. [40] with color images throughout. Catalogue from the exhibition held April - June 2014 in New York. "The title of Adriana Varejão's exhibition, "Polvo" -- Portuguese for "octopus" -- makes for a somewhat opaque metaphor. The Brazilian artist presented four "Polvo Portraits" (2014)--triptychs in which she altered the color of her own skin through different combination of paint tones, with each shade documented in color bars and wheels on the edge of the cavases. The title refers to octopus ink, made of the pigment melanin, which also darkens the skin. So it could be a reference to the octopus's ability to change color for purposes of camouflage and survival. Varejão's project of systematically altering the shade of her skin through paint might also be considered less about identity than about how people are categorized through the superficiality of color in Brazil's highly race-conscious… Leer más