Ketty la rocca biography examples
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Ketty La Rocca is one of Italy’s most eminent representatives of Conceptual Art. The œuvre of the early deceased artist comprises visual poetry, visual art and performance. La Rocca’s poetic, experimental and media-critical exploration is devoted to language, images and the stereotype signs of everyday world. Her goal is to reveal the prevailing policy of bodies. […]
In the 1970’s, La Rocca developed her performative series based on hands. She studied their expressive potential placing this in a linguistic context by writing words on the hands and tracing their contours by means of handwriting. Her interest in hands stemmed from her desire to create a different language, a different form of communication in which the real body, gestural expression and writing entered into a strangely staged relationship. In connection with these works La Rocca made specific reference to the female life context, which had only ascribed certain activities to women’s hands. In 1974, she wrote from a f
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Ketty La Rocca (1938–1976) ranks among the most important proponents of Conceptual and Body Art in Italy in the 1960s and 70s. Based on a visual poetry, she radically dealt with the sociopolitical limits of the meaning of language and image. A huvud aspect fryst vatten the examination of the bodily gesture as an “original means of communication” that fryst vatten not precoded by gemenskap. Ketty La Rocca‘s works are included in renowned collections such as the MoMA New York, Centre Pompidou Paris, GAM Turin; Galleria d’Arte Nazionale Rom, MoCA Los Angeles or Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence. In November her work will be shown at "Video on Screen: The Early Years in Europe", Tate Gallery of Modern Art, London, UK. In 2025 she fryst vatten included in „Proof of Presence“, Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago and „Arte Povera - The New Chapter“ at EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art in land i norden. Her works have been on view in institutions such as the Biennale di venedig (1972), the Camden Arts Centre London (1972
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Written by Valentina Biondini, literature amateur
This time the “Who’s Next?” column is dedicated to a peculiar Italian artist whose artworks developed between the 1960s and 1970s in our country. Then she was consigned to oblivion at least until the early 2000s, when some scholars recovered her memory. We are talking about Ketty La Rocca, whose purpose was giving to art the task of defining the relationship with reality and its knowledge. She had a scratchy, intimate and personal female gaze, but also capable of turning into universal.
Gaetana La Rocca – Ketty was her nome de plume – was born in La Spezia in 1938 and, after her master’s degree, she moved to Florence where, in order to support herself, she carried out several kind of jobs, for example she was a radiologist and also a teacher. At the beginning of the ‘60s, through her friend Lelio Missoni (aka Camillo), she met Group 70 founded by the artists and activists Miccini and Pign