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Collapsed drawing: castor bean leaf ( Ellsworth Kelly)

2007

Analia Saban

Works on paper

70.8 x 66 cm

Created: 2007

Medium: laser-cut paper and laser-cut archival digital print mounted on museum board

In her Collapsed Drawing, Analia Saban uses a laser to cut out the works of the painters that she respects - Matisse, Picasso, Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt, Giacometti or even the American minimalist artist Ellsworth Kelly in a serie that includes this Castor Bean Leaf. While carrying out an autopsy on them in a disciplined scientific manner, she uncovers their skeletons. The blackened residues left on the canvas after the operation under the picture frame glass appear like a negative of the original work.

Analia Saban

Argentina

Born in 1980

Born in 1980 in Buenos Aires.
Lives and works in Los Angeles.

Analia Saban works across mediums, exploring how art objects are constructed and understood. Her work is deeply engaged with the tools of art-making: while she regularly uses traditional materials, she subverts and often combines them with digital technologies to completely rethink how an artwork functions. Saban's work is in the collections of Hammer Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Getty Research Institute, in Los Angeles; MoMA, Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, and Albright-Knox Art Gallery in New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Blaffer Art Museum and The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston; San Antonio Museum of Art; MALBA in Buenos Aires; National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne; Centre Pompidou in Paris; among many others.