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Ferrari, León, 1920-2013

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1920-09-03 - 2013-07-25

Parallel Names

  • Ferrari, Leon

Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:

Aligning Vision: Alternative Currents in South American Drawing / Ferrari L ; Gerchman R ; Schendel M., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-32684-34270
Scope and Contents

This exhibition travelled to the Miami Art Museum. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Alternative Modernism / Smith, Roberta; Ferrari L; Schendel M., 2009

 Item
Identifier: CC-49502-70548
Scope and Contents

This is a review of a two person show at MOMA NYC featuring Leon Ferrari and Mira Schendel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

Art / Kennedy, Randy; Schendel M; Ferrari L; Holzer J; Nauman B; Weiner L., 2009

 Item
Identifier: CC-49466-70512
Scope and Contents

This is a brief review of "Tangled Alphabets," at exhibition at MoMA featuring Leon Ferrari and Mira Schendel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

Blue Prints and Pictures about 1 m x 1 m / Ferrari, Leon., 1980 - 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-11317-11533
Scope and Contents

The title page also depicts Ferrari's address in Sao Paulo. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980 - 1982

Collage of the Ferrari Bible / Ferrari, Leon., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-11316-11532
Scope and Contents

These three colored photographs of collages are inscribed on the verso by Ferrari along with a numbering desigation, presumably for exhibition placement purposes. The themes are anti-nuclear bomb and anti-war. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

[Curriculum and Franklin Furnace Press Release] / Ferrari, Leon., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-11311-11527
Scope and Contents

Announces the installation of "Heretic Chapel" at Franklin Furnace. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Da Serie Releitura da Biblia / Ferrari, Leon., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-11313-11529
Scope and Contents

Reproduces collages with Christian religious and Japanese erotic images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Heretic Chapel / Ferrari, Leon., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-12284-12508
Scope and Contents

In this series of reproductions of collaged images, Ferrari juxtaposes Christian religious with Japanese and Hindu erotic images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Hombres / Ferrari, Leon., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-11322-11538
Scope and Contents

The images in the book consist mainly of repetitive, stylized men with arms outstretched depicted as viewed from above. There is no text except for a long dictionary definition of 'man.' Some of the visual arrangements appear almost like text forms with a hieroglyphic language. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Imagens / Ferrari, Leon., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-11312-11528
Scope and Contents

The inscription to Ruth y Marvin is written with a bold calligraphic style. This book consists of a compendium of Ferrari's images. Also features Ferrari's ideographic code. This book reproduces two drawings, P4CD, Labirinto 5, & P4R, that are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

La Basilica / Ferrari, Leon., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-11318-11534
Scope and Contents

In this book, Ferrari interrelates Western religious imagery with nuclear explosions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Leonferrari 'Postscripts' / Cotter, Holland; Ferrari L., 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-42915-44958
Scope and Contents

This is a review of an exhibition of Ferrari's drawings at the Drawing Center in New York. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Múltiples, No. 2: La Eternidad es el Instante, 2000

 Item — Box 169: [Barcode: 31858072458312]
Identifier: CC-38541-40449
Scope and Contents

This assembling was made to coincide with the exhibition "Muestra de libros de artista" at the 26th Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires meeting. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Obras / Works 1976 - 2008, 2008

 Item
Identifier: CC-49614-70665
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive held the original drawing (donated to PAMM) for the photocopied print depicted from the drawing "P4R" in this catalogue on page 75. In an interview of Ferrari, it is mentioned that he has recently began to produce limited editioned high quality photocopies and heliograph copies of his original drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Pages of the book "Imagens" / Ferrari, Leon., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-11315-11531
Scope and Contents

These pages are reproductions from the book "Imagens" held by the Sackner Archive that were photocopied by Leon Ferrari. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Parahereges / Ferrari, Leon., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-11314-11530
Scope and Contents

This book consists of reproductions of collages that juxtapose Christian religious with Hindu and Japanese erotic images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Additional filters:

Subject
Critical text 9
Artist book (limited edition) 6
Visual art 6
Calligraphic markings 5
Calligraphic text 4