Draped marble (Fior di Pesco Carnico, Fior di Pesco Apuano, Crema Dorlion, Onyx)
(2015)
- Medium
- marble, painted steel, wood
- Measurements
- (a-e) 98.0 × 458.6 × 42.3 cm (installation)
- Place/s of Execution
- Los Angeles, California, United States
- Accession Number
- 2017.450.a-e
- Department
- Contemporary Art
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased NGV Foundation, 2017
© Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Analia Saban uses stone as ‘fabric’ in her seemingly magical work Draped marble (Fior di Pesco Carnico, Fior di Pesco Apuano, Crema Dorlion, Onyx), playing with viewers’ perception and expectations in order to blur the boundaries between painting and sculpture. Abstract patterns in the crystalline mineral structures of Saban’s broken marble ‘canvases’ recall vast and cavernous landscapes. Central to the artist’s investigation is the poetic connection she draws between minerals and pigments. The once-fluid particles that make up stone suggest its potential to be milled back into pigment for paint.