Life Study. Mendieta exhibit traces history’s impact on the artist

“It takes a little more than a minute for the young woman to mark a wall with her hands and arms covered in animal blood. When she’s finished making the simple but unnerving marks in red, she simply walks away. The sleeve of her shirt bears a bloody stain. Her face is void of expression.

You can see the woman make these marks over and over in an old, silent Super-8 film from 1974 transferred to DVD. The red-marked film marks the entrance to the tough and compelling show, Ana Mendieta: Earth Body, Sculpture and Performance 1972-1985 at the Miami Art Museum. The show, curated by Olga Viso and organized by the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., is in Miami on its fourth and final stop in a tour that has included museums in New York and Iowa, where the Cuban-born Mendieta (1948-1985) was especially active during her brief but prolific and forward-minded and now celebrated career.”

Please notes some (many) sites require registration. Many times it is free.

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