In “Ana Mendieta: Criticism, Liturgy and Experimentation in Cinema” (translated by Brenda Sheehan) Gerardo Mosquera reviews the exhibition Ana Mendieta: “Experimental and Interactive Films,” which was on view from February 5 through March 26 at Galerie Lelong (528 West 26th Street, Chelsea, New York). As Mosquera points out, the exhibition includes 15 videos, 9 of…
HERE IS WHAT WE KNOW: In 1979, Ana Mendieta, a young, up-and-coming artist fresh off a solo show at the feminist co-op A.I.R. Gallery, met the older, more famous Carl Andre, a so-called founding father of Minimalism. The artists embarked on a romantic and, by several accounts, tempestuous relationship. In 1985, Mendieta died after falling from the window of Andre’s thirty-fourth-floor apartment in New York’s Greenwich Village. He was tried, and acquitted, for her murder. Now eighty-seven, Andre still living, somewhat astoundingly, in that same apartment has carried on with his career, exhibiting
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