Galleria Raffaella Cortese is pleased to present a third solo show by Barbara Bloom. The exhibition will involve two of the three gallery spaces simultaneously, with artworks conceived and realized expressively for the show and its venues.
Absence and its depiction has been, for nearly 40 years, an ongoing theme of exploration in the work of Barbara Bloom. Fingerprints, lipstick traces, watermarks, tea stains, footprints, invisible texts, erasures, cross-outs, Braille, and ellipses… are her favored forms and objects. These flirtations between visibility and invisibility have been frequent presences in her work. Another equally strong aspect of Barbara Bloom’s work has been its relationship to literature. She uses books and texts from favorite authors as carriers of meaning, and often suggests implied narratives. Bloom has often said that she was meant to be a writer, probably a novelist, but somehow ended up standing in the wrong line (and inadvertently “signed up” to be a visual artist). The Literary and the Absent come together in the exhibition “The Weather”.
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