The Italian Isabella Ducrot is among the many women at Tefaf, the great European art fair that has been based in New York for ten years.
Neapolitan, born in 1931, Ducrot is presented at the stand of the German gallery Gisela Capitain, who celebrated her about ten years ago with an elegant silver dress from 1921, pastel and silver paper on special Chinese paper.
She moved to Rome for several years, Ducrot, 94, began her art career at a young age.
Still active, she uses fabric and paper as an artistic medium and as a common thread. Repetition is the theme of many of his works where he becomes the main character in the image.
“The rhythm of life, the beats of the heart, are expressed through repetitive elements which, not surprisingly, are musical elements,” the gallery explains.
At the heart of an exhibition held ten years ago at the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome, Isabella Ducrot was chosen last January by Maria Grazia Chiuri from Dior to curate the Big Aura installation at the Rodin Museum in Paris, theater de la Haute Couture fashion show of the fashion house for spring / summer 2024.
Ducrot has covered the walls of the room with 23 elegant dresses, each about five meters high, applied to a grid drawn with irregular black lines that refer to the warp and the texture: a reminder of the costumes of the sultans that Isabel saw in Istanbul during one of the trips with her husband Vittorio Ducrot, founder of Elephant Travel.
Around ninety of the world’s leading galleries will participate in Tefaf 2024 this spring, from 15 countries and four continents, with an offer of museum-quality works, each approved by experts independent in each sector.
Along with Ducrot, many other women are represented at Tefaf, generating interest shown by the sale of the first two days of the fair: among them the American Joan Snyder, 84, who contributed to American abstract art from the 1970s performed a full session during the first VIP night with the two-part work Primary Fields from 2001, which sold for $350,000; oil on canvas Wall Garden, 2015, for $160,000 and six works on paper valued between $15,000 and $40,000.
Emma Reyes, a Colombian artist who recently exhibited at the Venice Biennale, arrived at Tefaf at the León Tovar gallery center.
Salon 94 featured self-taught artist Rebecca Salsbury James, a good friend of Georgia O’Keeffe who taught her to drive, and London gallerist Offer Waterman highlighted three British ceramists, including Lucie Rie, who was based in Vienna, who fled to London during Nazism in 1938 with a suitcase full of carefully packed vases.
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