Lot 37
FRANCINE MATARAZZO(20th/21st Century)Untitled 5-2, 2022
13 – 27 February 2025, 17:00 PST
Online, Los AngelesUS$2,000 - US$3,000
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FRANCINE MATARAZZO (20th/21st Century)
Untitled 5-2, 2022
signed and dated (on the reverse)
mixed media collage
11 x 14 in.
27.9 x 35.6 cm.
signed and dated (on the reverse)
mixed media collage
11 x 14 in.
27.9 x 35.6 cm.
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Provenance
Courtesy of the artist
For over a decade Francine has been creating paintings and works on paper that reflect her travels and time residing in the Middle East and North Africa. Matarazzo paints abstractly to re-capture that time, its feelings and intensity. Days, months and years of a camera's eye are tucked away in her history – a history with footprints in Iran, Tunisia, Morocco, Jordan, Afghanistan, and India, all places whose palpability has long since yielded to interpretation through color and texture. As fragmented, complex and layered as these memories are, so too are the surfaces of her art. Calligraphic markings, smudges, swirls, bits of canvas, torn pieces of old notebooks, strips of painted mylar, dabs of paint, pieces of cloth, all enhanced in a spectrum of color, all stand-ins for a long ago reality. They claim their places of desert skies, sun-scorched sands, gardens, courtyards, souks, mountains, valleys, villages, people and events. Texture upon texture, layer upon layer, indigo on saffron, turquoise on alizarin, they form her bridges to the past, bridges that invite the viewer to step across with her in time and join her in her memories.