León Ferrari (1920-2013), Planeta

León Ferrari (1920-2013)
Planeta
stainless wire
32 ½ in. (82.6 cm.) diameter
Executed in 2004. Unique.

Pre-Lot Text
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE SPANISH COLLECTION
Post Lot Text
1 Padre Guillermo Marcó, quoted in Vikki Bell, “Writing to the General, and Other Aesthetic Strategies of Critique: The Art of León Ferrari as a Practice of Freedom,” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 21, no. 2 (June 2012): 277.
2 Andrea Giunta, “León Ferrari: A Language Rhapsody,” in Tangled Alphabets: León Ferrari and Mira Schendel, ed. Luis Pérez-Oramas (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2009), 49.
3 Aracy Amaral, “León Ferrari: The São Paulo Years (1976 – c.1984),” in León Ferrari: Retrospectiva, Obras 1954-2004 (Buenos Aires: Centro Cultural Recoleta, 2004), 357.
4 Luis Pérez-Oramas, Tangled Alphabets, 35-6.
5 Ferrari, “Berimbau” [Flasharte no. 1, 1979], in León Ferrari, 401.
6 Ferrari, Notebook 1, 1962-63, quoted in Pérez-Oramas, Tangled Alphabets, 23.
7 Bell, “Writing to the General,” 277.