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Article: Orsina Sforza at Janos Gat.
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- November 1, 2006
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Orsina Sforza lives and works in Rome. In this interesting and skillful show of paintings she focused on random accumulations of detritus, objects painted with a passionate regard for their innate presence as things. Four years ago, Sforza was making her way through the Roman neighborhood of Testaccio when she found a garbage dump near the Tiber. At high tide, the river's water permeated the dump and repositioned its contents, creating a varying mess that visually fascinated the artist. She went back to the dump and took photographs which became the basis of the oil paintings in this show.
The works typically single out a small cross-section of the chaos and ...