Artist
Johanna Calle (Colombian, born 1965)Colombian, born 1965
CultureColombian
Titles
- Obra Negra
Date2007-2008
Made inColombia
MediumGalvanized wire, copper, and Chinese ink on cardboard
DimensionsOverall: 15 3/4 × 15 3/4 in. (40 × 40 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caribbean Art Fund and the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment
Object number2012.377.1
Not on view
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Department
Latin American ArtObject Type
Exhibition HistoryCifo (Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation), Miami, Fl, April 25 - June 22, 2008.
"Variaciones políticas del trazo," Fundación TEORéTica, San José, Costa Rica, August 6th - September 20, 2008.
"Artists and War," NDMOA (North Dakota Museum of Art), Jean Dean Holland Gallery, Grand Forks, ND, February 15 - April 11, 2009.
"Contingent Beauty." Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. November 22, 2015 - February 28th, 2016
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in blue color pencil on verso: obra negra (projecto CIFO) / alambre sobre cartón / [dimensions] / 2007-2008; in pencil and ink preceding Inscription: 14; upper left in pencil: cl 40 sur con cra 73A Kennedy, Bogotá; lower right in ink: Hemplazar[?] with an arrow
Signed in blue colored pencil on verso board: Johanna Calle
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