Word: chiapasco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alejandro Chiapasco was a mouse-poor Florentine expatriate a few years ago when he met the keeper of the Buenos Aires morgue, Dr. Juan B. Bafico. Chiapasco needed money, a chance to work; above all, he longed for a place where he could work at his sculpting. Dr. Bafico was a kindly man, one of the kindliest who ever kept a morgue. So Dr. Bafico managed to shell out enough to keep Sculptor Chia pasco alive, and gave him a studio in the basement...
...that air of death, Sculptor Chiapasco took a new lease of life. For the morgue entrance he fashioned a monumental marble of Orpheus (reversing the legend) saying his last farewell to Eurydiceupremum Vale. Death masks were made of every person brought in. Numbered, indexed and neatly mounted on the studio wall, they served as the morgue's photographic file. Profoundly moved by some of these faces, Artist Chiapasco modeled from them his ambitious works. He lined a corridor with bas-reliefs of Pain, Destiny, Love, Will Power, Desire, the faces of which all came from death masks. Sculptor...
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