# @drawingcenter on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BntutD-BguS
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16045578-drawingcenter-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2018-09-14T17:14:33.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Drawing Center (@drawingcenter) — https://gondola.cc/drawingcenter

## Caption

Artists have a variety of methods to make their mark. Every Friday we will share a photograph of an #ArtistInAction. 
Anna Maria Maiolino (b. 1942), a Brazilian-Italian artist, has a varied ouvre that includes works on paper, photography, sculpture, and video that are largely autobiographical and reflect her experiences as an immigrant, mother, and citizen. Escaping fascist Italy as a child, Maiolino and her family moved to Venezuela and then to Brazil, which became her primary country of residence. During the 1960s and 70s, Maiolino became involved in Brazil’s New Figuration art movement, which were representational works that were acts of resistance against the national military regime and urban inequalities. Maiolino’s woodcuts of this period are bold works on paper that have small, sometimes incoherent text elements. Moving from Italy, Venezuela, and then to Brazil, Maiolino draws from her confused experience of language and communication in these works. Maiolino said she was trying to “construct [herself] as a person.” In addition to the political content of her work, Maiolino also draws upon her experience as a woman in the engravings, too. “...I approach an ostensibly socially disqualified theme: the feminine,” she explains. “The prosaic, banal and obvious aspect of women’s everyday lives in big cities…” Most recently, Maoilino has turned to sculptures that mimic the ritualization of life. Inspired by her role as a mother, Maoilino’s clay works include repeated forms with slight variations similar to her experience with her children. Maoilino, by using her own life in work, says “I arrive at what I have through experience. Art gives you that experience. That is art — it enriches you.” #AnnaMariaMaiolino 
Image: Photograph by Francine Orr. Courtesy of LA Times, 2017.

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