It is an event that will delight both painting enthusiasts and great personalities, not to mention fans of comic biographies. We have just learned, and we will come back to it in detail in a column, that a book will be released on the occasion of the first Georgia O’Keeffe retrospective in France. An exceptional exhibition is taking place at the Center Pompidou from September 8 to December 13, 2021, which had to be announced without delay.
Before having read this graphic fictional novel to approach the particular life of one of the greatest modern artists, we can give an outline. 1949. Since the death of Alfred Stieglitz three years earlier, Georgia O’Keeffe took refuge in her Ghost Ranch in New Mexico, with her friends Maria Chabot, Anita Pollitzer and her secretary Doris Bry, to make an inventory of the heritage of photos and drawings of Stieglitz. Through this complex work, Georgia traces her own path, in life and in art: from the Arts Students League (New York, 1907) to consecration as America’s greatest female artist and to her recent career. years.
The biography Georgia O’Keeffe, Amazon of modern art is signed by the screenwriter Luca de Santis to whom we owe in 2010 In Italy there are only real men, then Leda Rafanelli, the gypsy anarchist with Sara Colaone (Steinkis, 2018) and Ariston Hotel (Right here, 2019). Luca is also a journalist in Milan.
Sara Colaone is an Italian designer. After a master’s degree in conservation of cultural goods and a thesis on the history of cinema, she devoted herself to comics. In parallel with her career in comics, Sara gives drawing lessons at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. At Steinkis, she signed Leda Raffanelli, Escapees from the Harem and today Georgia O’Keeffe. She lives in Bologna.
Georgia O’Keeffe, Amazon of Modern Art, Steinkis, € 24
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