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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 is a young Argentinean artist who recently graduated in New Genres from the art department of U.C.L.A.
Analia Saban approaches her work scientifically. She is interested in the physical make-up of the image and the very element which makes it a picture: she dissects art.
She often appropriates the work of the masters of art history and cuts into the medium using a laser-cut technique. This process leaves a slight mark on the medium and leaves sections hanging. This not only reveals the different phases of the creative process but also provides a new insight into the links between painting and sculpture, between the second and third dimension.
Lives and works in Los Angeles.
Analia Saban is a young Argentinean artist who recently graduated in New Genres from the art department of U.C.L.A.
Analia Saban approaches her work scientifically. She is interested in the physical make-up of the image and the very element which makes it a picture: she dissects art.
She often appropriates the work of the masters of art history and cuts into the medium using a laser-cut technique. This process leaves a slight mark on the medium and leaves sections hanging. This not only reveals the different phases of the creative process but also provides a new insight into the links between painting and sculpture, between the second and third dimension.
Artwork of
Analia Saban
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