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Renée Petropoulos — Bouquet - For Clarise (Lispector)
Renée Petropoulos

Bouquet - For Clarise (Lispector)

2020

"Bouquet, For Clarise (Lispector)" brings together collage and inkjet print in a work that is at once visually intimate and conceptually layered. Renée Petropoulos constructs the composition around a bouquet whose individual flowers are not chosen for decorative effect alone but carry precise biographical weight, each bloom standing in for a country where the celebrated Brazilian author Clarice Lispector lived or was rooted. The sunflower, associated with Ukraine where Lispector was born, sits alongside the orchid, emblematic of Brazil where she spent much of her life, transforming a floral arrangement into a kind of compressed geography and quiet biography. The square format, modest in scale at 38.1 by 38.1 centimeters, focuses attention on the density of meaning held within what might otherwise appear a straightforward still life. The work belongs to an ongoing series in which Petropoulos reconsiders the homage as a form, treating tribute not as passive commemoration but as an active and material practice. Over more than four decades of sustained artistic production, her work has entered significant institutional collections across Europe and the Americas, including the Hammer Museum, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and MACO Oaxaca, a record that reflects the consistent critical regard her practice has earned. This dedication to Lispector, a writer whose prose has long been celebrated for its interior intensity and resistance to easy categorization, feels apt coming from an artist whose own work operates through accumulation, allusion, and carefully chosen symbolic registers. Signed by the artist and offered through the Venice Art Walk Benefit Auction, the work presents collectors with an opportunity to acquire a piece that rewards sustained looking.

Medium
Collage on inkjet print
Overall
Signed
Yes

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Renée Petropoulos, Bouquet - For Clarise (Lispector), 2020

"Bouquet, For Clarise (Lispector)" brings together collage and inkjet print in a work that is at once visually intimate and conceptually layered. Renée Petropoulos constructs the composition around a bouquet whose individual flowers are not chosen for decorative effect alone but carry precise biographical weight, each bloom standing in for a country where the celebrated Brazilian author Clarice Lispector lived or was rooted. The sunflower, associated with Ukraine where Lispector was born, sits alongside the orchid, emblematic of Brazil where she spent much of her life, transforming a floral arrangement into a kind of compressed geography and quiet biography. The square format, modest in scale at 38.1 by 38.1 centimeters, focuses attention on the density of meaning held within what might otherwise appear a straightforward still life. The work belongs to an ongoing series in which Petropoulos reconsiders the homage as a form, treating tribute not as passive commemoration but as an active and material practice. Over more than four decades of sustained artistic production, her work has entered significant institutional collections across Europe and the Americas, including the Hammer Museum, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and MACO Oaxaca, a record that reflects the consistent critical regard her practice has earned. This dedication to Lispector, a writer whose prose has long been celebrated for its interior intensity and resistance to easy categorization, feels apt coming from an artist whose own work operates through accumulation, allusion, and carefully chosen symbolic registers. Signed by the artist and offered through the Venice Art Walk Benefit Auction, the work presents collectors with an opportunity to acquire a piece that rewards sustained looking.

Medium
Collage on inkjet print
Dimensions
overall: 38.1 x 38.1 cm
Year
2020
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
Venice Art Walk Benefit Auction

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