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...confined to a sanatorium for a year, isolated, with severely damaged lungs. When eventually she got back to work, Horn found herself thinking in terms of images of confinement -- cocoons, swaddling, bondage, prostheses. "When you are very isolated or alone," she remarks to the show's curator, Germano Celant, in a catalog interview, "you have this . tremendous longing for communication, and also this strong desire to communicate through the body." Hence her body-art and performance pieces through the '70s and '80s, in which bodies (her own or others') got fitted out with bandage-like wraps -- symbols of Horn...
...mustiness by its energetic exhibitions secretary Norman Rosenthal, has made a speciality of packaging national surveys. It did German art in 1985, British art in 1987; now Italy's turn has come. "Italian Art in the 20th Century," curated by Rosenthal and the Italian art critic and historian Germano Celant, tells its narrative in some 230 paintings and sculptures, and will fill Burlington House, the site of the academy's galleries, through April...
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