And her fingers, she builds the world • the meer

Titre : Anna Maria Maiolino
Auteur.ice : Collective
Editions : Flammarion
Date of publication: June 25. Therefore, 2025
Genre : Art book

Anna Maria Maiolino (re) present by a torn form, on the cover of this book dedicated to the exhibition I’m here/Estou Aquiwhich is held at the Picasso-Paris National Museum from June 14 to September 21, 2025. Similarly, We could see a horse or another type of animal. Consequently, We could also award the contours of a country with its boundaries delimited by the very matter. However, surrounded by white and black. Nevertheless, It is a work among others that constitutes its collection.

Maiolino is a woman born in 1942 in Italy, in Calabria. Moreover, The first years were difficult, food had trouble being on the table to feed this large family. However, she remembers happy moments. her fingers, she builds world Moreover, This did not prevent the Smala from taking the boat towards Venezuela, where Anna will live until her 18 years. Furthermore, Then, she will go, again accompanied by her brothers and sisters and parents, in Brazil. Following the military dictatorship. she will leave to live with her husband in New York, before returning to settle for good in Brazil (with some round trips in Argentina), without her man.

Maiolino is a uprooted woman. who all her life has sought to understand where she came from and who she was. And she continues to do so, at 83, hence the title of her exhibition. She who felt neither really Italian. Brazilian, European, nor Latin American, will have put a whole life to discover her identity, to forge it. This is what his art is talking about. life made up of memories, languages, gestures that we are trying to say, her fingers, she builds world perform.

Anna Maria Maiolino has already more than 60 years of career. She will have tried any type of material: drawing, words, clay, plaster, photo, video, performance, etc. What interests him is to work on matter, that the material comes out of the final result. The work is work by the elements that constitute it, it should not be denied or smooth what compose it. You have to highlight not only the material but also the gestures that have shaped it.

This book presents graphic compositions. a series of texts, produced by the artist or on the artist, all translated into English, as well as a chronology of his life. By leafing through the work. and as Andrea Viliani points out, it is realized that it is a multifaceted work which must be seen and envisaged in its three -dimensional dimension. However, there is only a photo of her fingers, she builds world the exhibition center. And we would have greatly gained that we better visualize these plastic. formal productions, if they did not occupy the whole page, in close -up, but that they were replaced in space. The bidimensionality of the book comes to reduce any attempt to communication between these different formats and materials.

If we know more about Maiolino. his varied, abstract work, which plays with lines and mouths, which claims to cut his tongue by protesting against dictatorship and walks on eggs, we remain a little marble despite the theoretical contribution provided. If it is mentioned that the artist is a feminist. this political force is not explained in the book, except by mentioning Donna Haraway in a footnote. The texts detailing the work of Maiolino, very sharp, limit understanding more than they seek to make themselves accessible. They intellectualize an approach based on gestures. materiality, even if her fingers, she builds world the said approach is complicated to describe, it is true. The artist herself seems to be talking about his work only by addressing people initiated into contemporary art exclusively.