Word: pigafetta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Throughout the '70s his work-painting, sculpture and cockeyed hybrid -has provided a winding, mythic narrative about travel and exploration, circling back on a landscape choked with color and crammed with eccentric heroes. Each new show provides a fresh chapter. Ferrer's sources are often literary: Pigafetta's chronicle of Magellan's explorations, for instance. His materials are a parade of incongruities -neon tubes and stuffed anacondas, old dinghies and melting ice, dry leaves and wild-dog skins, plastic roses, canoes made of rusty wire, maps that turn into masks, and drums, beads, burlap...
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