Elements of Beauty: in order of appearance, The Daily Mirror (June 4th 1914).
Elements of Beauty: in order of appearance, 2013-2018, consists of 13 original newspapers published between 1913 and 1914, which cover these actions performed by the group of militants that became known as the Suffragettes. The newspapers are covered by a sheet of paper, with small cut windows that only reveal the characters described by the press: the militant, the suffragette, the crazy woman with an axe, the King, the guards, the museum visitors. It is as if these characters could come back to life from the pages of newspapers that they could potentially have read themselves.
The original newspapers are displayed in 13 tables, three of them have mirrors to show the front pages, in the cases in which they depict these same actions in museums.
Installation view at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), São Paulo, Brasil, 2019
Literature about the artist's research on this topic can be accessed here.
Detail of Elements of Beauty: in order of appearance, 2018
This work has been exhibited at:
-Röda Sten, Gothenburg (2018)
-Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), São Paulo, Brasil (2019)
One of the three tables with mirror as shown in the exhibition
Shout Fire. Röda Sten, Gothenburg 2018
One of the three tables with mirror as shown in the
Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), São Paulo, Brasil, 2019
Original newspapers used in the work (per table):
The Daily Mirror (April 5th 1913)
The Times (March 11th 1914)
The Daily Mirror (March 11th 1914)
The Times (March 13th 1914)
The Times (April 10th 1914)
The Times (May 5th 1914)
The Daily Mirror (May 5th 1914)
The Times (May 13th 1914)
The Times (May 25th 1914)
The Times (June 4th 1914)
The Daily Mirror (June 4th 1914)
The Times (June 10th 1914)
The Times (July 22nd 1914)
CARLA ZACCAGNINI
ELEMENTS OF BEAUTY: IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE
2018
Cut paper placed on original newspapers from 1913-14.
Displayed on 13 custom made tables (of which three of them have mirrors)
Unique
2018
Cut paper placed on original newspapers from 1913-14.
Displayed on 13 custom made tables (of which three of them have mirrors)
Unique
Status: Available
Location: Malmö
Provenance: Artist's Studio
Tables produced by Röda Sten
Location: Malmö
Provenance: Artist's Studio
Tables produced by Röda Sten
