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La Nez de Cleopatre

Name: La Nez De Cleopatre | Pedro Friedeberg
Brand: RoGallery
SKU: 79723

Pedro Friedeberg

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Mexican (1936)

Date: 2021
Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of XXXIV/L
Image Size: 19 x 19 inches
Size: 21 x 21 in. (53.34 x 53.34 cm)

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about La Nez de Cleopatre

This piece, whose title translates to "Cleopatra’s Nose", is a surrealist geometric op art screenprint.

A city’s buildings are cloned and repeated down into infinity, surrounded by infinite hands, dripping stars, and checkerboard-gridded streets. The original painting for this print was painted, as dated on the left, on October 22, 1972. The full French title is "Le Nez de Cleopatre: S’il est ete plus court, toute la face de la terre aurait change" which translates to "The Nose of Cleopatra: If it was shorter, the whole face of the world would need to be changed".

About The Artist: Pedro Friedeberg

Friedeberg was born in Florence, Italy, on January 11, 1936, the son of German-Jewish parents, Friedeberg arrived in Mexico at the age of three. Having shown an early inclination for drawing and reading, he studied architecture at the Universidad Iberoamericana, where he was profoundly influenced by the teaching of Mathias Goeritz, a German-Mexican artist. Under Goeritz influence he created architectural models that fused diverse elements into...

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About The Medium: Screenprint

A stencil process employing a frame on which silk or synthetic fabric is stretched. Stencils are hand-drawn or hand-cut and placed on the stretched fabric and act as a block out when the ink passes through the screen by means of a squeegee onto the paper, the non-stencil areas create the image. Also known as silkscreen or serigraph.

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