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Escalera VI
Margarita Morselli1985/1985
Art Museum of the Americas
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Escalera VI
- Creator Lifespan: 1952 - Present
- Creator Nationality: Paraguayan
- Creator Gender: Female
- Creator Birth Place: Asuncion
- Date: 1985/1985
- Physical Dimensions: w39.5 x h39.5 in
- Painter: Margarita Morselli
- Description: Morselli’s Escalera VI depicts a set of stairs from which water trickles. A suffused vapor at the top of the stairs evokes a sense of mysticism in the scene. In other paintings of the series, Morselli reinforces that sense of otherworldliness by adding a beam of light that illuminates the stairs from the top-left corner or hints at deterioration by collapsing the structure of the bottom steps. Morselli confers to her stairs a transcendental value that is similarly displayed in Anselm Kiefer’s architectural spaces, although she does so in terms that are not as overtly political. -Text by Francesca Giani
- Alternative Title: Stairway VI
- Type: Painting
- Medium: mixed media on canvas
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