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Santa Faustina Kowalska 1931

2005

León Ferrari

(Argentinian, 1920–2013)
Culture
Argentina
Medium
pen and black ink on wove paper
Measurements
Sheet: 29.5 x 21 cm (11 5/8 x 8 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Leon Ferrari Foundation 2019.196
Copyright
© León Ferrari
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print
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León Ferrari created several works that incorporated texts authored by Maria Faustina Kowalska, a Polish nun.

Description

Created during the last decade of Argentinian artist León Ferrari’s life, this drawing presents a decorative flourish of cursive text. Beginning in the 1960s, the artist created a series of drawings that presented or evoked the written word in response to censorship in his native country. Here, Ferrari presented the Polish nun Maria Faustina Kowalska’s (1905–1938) description of Hell, evoking a juxtaposition between otherworldly tortures with those enacted during the political turmoil he had witnessed during his lifetime.
Black ink cursive in Spanish that extends in arching freeform lines from the lower left side of the white page, creating a wing-like structure with veins of texts running through it and occasionally breaking out of the structure. The text begins "Hoy un ángel me llevo a los precipicios..." and ends "escusarse diciendo no existe el infierno." "infierno" is the largest word, written at a diagonal in the lower left corner.

Santa Faustina Kowalska 1931

2005

León Ferrari

(Argentinian, 1920–2013)
Argentina

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