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The Salt Traders, 2015
Loaned to
Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea
Description
Site-specific installation: 8 wooden structures (approx. 2,77 m x 1,53 m each) with 144 frames (22x42 cm each) , 76 drawings, 30 beehives, 38 filled with sand, salt, aquarium; sand, salt rock, salt - crystal unprocessed, rollling sail canvas (approx. 5,15m x 2,64 m), sail canvas with map (approx. 8,80 x 6,05 m), red sail canvas (approx. 5,45 x 6,45 cm), boat in 3 part (approx. 1,10x1,60 m / 1,5 x1,6m / 1,60 x 1,70)
Dimensions
Dimensione variabile
No. Elements
1
Object Type
installazione
Credits
© Anna Boghiguian - Courtesy Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Torino - Proprietà della Fondazione per l'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT
The Artist
Born in 1946 in Cairo from parents of Armenian origin who had escaped from the genocide, Anna Boghiguian grew up in Heliopolis, a neighbourhood of the city inhabited largely by aristocratic élites and European minorities. After completing her studies in economics and political sciences at the American University, she left Egypt at little more than twenty years of age, initially to travel, only to settle permanently in Montréal, Canada. Here she grew close to music, literature and philosophy, and took her first steps in the world of the visual arts.
Her early works, produced around the end of the 1970s, are collages of cut-outs from newspapers and magazines, with which she marked the start of a highly personal contamination of images and words, gradually honed in her works in later life. [...]
Castello di Rivoli
Museo d’Arte Contemporanea
Piazza Mafalda di Savoia
10098 Rivoli (Torino)
