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accession number: 2020.263
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url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.263
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Anima, Silueta de Cohetes (Firework Piece), 1976. Ana Mendieta (American, b. Cuba, 1948–1985). Super-8mm film transferred to high-definition digital media, color, silent, 2:23 minutes; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dorothea Wright Hamilton Fund 2020.263 © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC. Courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
title: Anima, Silueta de Cohetes (Firework Piece)
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creation date: 1976
creation date earliest: 1976
creation date latest: 1976
current location: 224B Video
creditline: Dorothea Wright Hamilton Fund
copyright: © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC. Courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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culture: America
technique: Super-8mm film transferred to high-definition digital media, color, silent, 2:23 minutes
department: Contemporary Art
collection: CONTEMP - Installation Media
type: Time-based Media
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CREATORS
* Ana Mendieta (American, b. Cuba, 1948–1985)
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edition of the work: Edition 5 of 6 with 3 APs
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Contemporary Gallery Reinstallation 2021
opening date: 2021-04-20T04:00:00
Contemporary Gallery Reinstallation 2021. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).
title: Ana Mendieta: Anima, Silueta de Cohetes (Firework Piece)
opening date: 2022-12-06T05:00:00
Ana Mendieta: Anima, Silueta de Cohetes (Firework Piece). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (December 6, 2022-April 9, 2023).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
(Galerie Lelong & Co., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: 2020
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 2020-
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Mendieta created nearly 80 films in her Silueta series between 1973 and 1985, making her one of the most prolific artists to take up the medium at this time.
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In this work, Ana Mendieta creates a monumental female figure from lit fireworks, and she films the burning silhouette until it extinguishes. Combining elements of performance, installation art, video, and photography, this "earth body" work, as the artist describes it, is part of Mendieta's Silueta series. The Siluetas were groundbreaking contributions to the Land Art movement, largely dominated by male artists. As the film opens, the dark night is broken by a series of small explosions that form the silhouette and burn out slowly. The imagery is a metaphor for the passage of time and self-transformation, deeply personal themes for the artist.
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In this work, Ana Mendieta creates a monumental female figure from lit fireworks, and she films the burning silhouette until it extinguishes. Combining elements of performance, installation art, video, and photography, this "earth body" work, as the artist describes it, is part of Mendieta's Silueta series. The Siluetas were groundbreaking contributions to the Land Art movement, largely dominated by male artists. As the film opens, the dark night is broken by a series of small explosions that form the silhouette and burn out slowly. The imagery is a metaphor for the passage of time and self-transformation, deeply personal themes for the artist.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Camnitzer, Luis. "Ana Mendieta." Third Text, 3, no. 7 (1989): 47-52.
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Rauch, Heidi and Federico Suro. "Ana Mendieta's Primal Scream." Américas 44, no. 5 (Sept-Oct 1992): 44-48.
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Best, Susan. "The serial spaces of Ana Mendieta." Art History 30, no.1 (2007): 57-82.
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Lukkas, Lynn, Howard Oransky, and Ana Mendieta. Covered in Time and History: The Films of Ana Mendieta. Minneapolis, MN: Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota, in association with University of California Press, 2015.
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