Scope and Contents This print reproduces a page from a multiple page poem written on graph paper. The work was composed by Castoro in 1969. Castoro was the first wife of Carl Andre who also used Castro as her last name. Broadway 1602 Gallery: Rosemarie Castoro (1939-)was a central protagonist among of the New York Minimalists and one of the few highly recognized female painters in this milieu. In the early 1960s Castoro found her initial inspiration in modern dance. She collaborated with Minimal Dance pioneer Yvonne Rainer and at Pratt Institute she got intensely involved with choreography. "When I danced I leapt through the air and continued to remain up there"¦I felt a self-propelled air- stretch. It was a way to leave this earth, to bring coherence to reality, to find a path again, to deeper the grooves and push the forest of the half blind." This highly evolved early practice served Castoro to explore three-dimensional space. By 1964 she decided to channel her central aesthetic concerns focusing...

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This print reproduces a page from a multiple page poem written on graph paper. The work was composed by Castoro in 1969. Castoro was the first wife of Carl Andre who also used Castro as her last name. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.