Tecla Tofano: This Body of Mine
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Author: Tofano, Tecla
Tecla Tofano is most recognised for her pottery, but she was also a draftswoman, metal-smith and writer. From 1964 to 1978, she shifted from the potter’s wheel to hand-sculpting glazed ceramics of body parts, books, totemic figures and domestic items, exploring maternity, sexism and socio-economics. This monograph highlights Tofano’s ceramics and drawings from this transformative phase in her practice. Also includes translations of her poetry. Towards the end of the 1970s, Tofano felt that she had exhausted the possibilities of clay as a medium. She stopped producing ceramics to refocus her energy and activist rhetoric on writing and drawing. Tofano wrote critical articles on society and culture for the newspaper El Nacional beginning in the 1960s and authored several books. The book also includes a curatorial essay by Rangel, a detailed chronology by Farías and translations of Tofano’s poetry and writing by Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola.
ISBN 9798218240936. James Cohan, New York. hb. 112 pages. 100 colour, b/w ills. 24.8 x 21.6 cm.
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Tecla Tofano is most recognised for her pottery, but she was also a draftswoman, metal-smith and writer. From 1964 to 1978, she shifted from the potter’s wheel to hand-sculpting glazed ceramics of body parts, books, totemic figures and domestic items, exploring maternity, sexism and socio-economics. This monograph highlights Tofano’s ceramics and drawings from this transformative phase in her practice. Also includes translations of her poetry. Towards the end of the 1970s, Tofano felt that she had exhausted the possibilities of clay as a medium. She stopped producing ceramics to refocus her energy and activist rhetoric on writing and drawing. Tofano wrote critical articles on society and culture for the newspaper El Nacional beginning in the 1960s and authored several books. The book also includes a curatorial essay by Rangel, a detailed chronology by Farías and translations of Tofano’s poetry and writing by Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola.
ISBN 9798218240936. James Cohan, New York. hb. 112 pages. 100 colour, b/w ills. 24.8 x 21.6 cm.
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