This quantity takes a brand new examine the existence and paintings of Francesca Woodman via a clean research of the images and writings from her Roman sojourn.
A precocious artist and a determine stuck among cultures–American and Italian–Francesca Woodman reached the acme of her inventive parable in Rome, the place she totally outlined her aesthetic and stylistic sensibilities.
By retracing Woodman’s daily walks throughout the urban and drawing us into own tales as remembered through shut acquaintances, the writer reconstructs Woodman’s such a lot formative reviews in Rome, from the Maldoror bookstore in through del Parione to the ateliers of the Nuova Scuola Romana on the previous Cerere Pasta manufacturing facility within the San Lorenzo neighborhood.
Drawing from huge study, the writer analyzes the connection of Woodman’s paintings to Surrealism, in addition to the artist’s use of the physique as its personal inventive language, and her curiosity in metamorphosis and the autopsy, wondering the finality of demise and hence additionally of severe readings that outline Woodman’s paintings by way of the tragic nature of her personal death.   Readers will come to understand her photos in detail, drawn into the intensely own conversations which echo via her images.
This booklet finds a brand new and intimate facet of a superb photographer, taking us on a trip during the labyrinth of phrases and pictures that light up Francesca Woodman’s universe.