Rosemarie Castoro
Rosemarie Castoro (3 January 1939–17 May 2015) was born in Brooklyn and worked her entire life in New York, where she was a central figure in the city’s Minimalist and Conceptual art scene. After studying at the Pratt Institute, she experimented with various forms of expression and media, from drawing, painting and installations to choreography and modern dance. In 1969 Castoro turned away from painting and began to deal with new experimental forms of expression of the New York avant-garde: conceptual text pieces, concrete poetry and performative interventions in the streets. Her formalistic work is often premised on an allegorical ambiguity. Recent major museum retrospectives have taken place at MACBA, Museu d’art contemporani de Barcelona (2017) and MAMCO, Musée d’art modern et contemporain, Geneva (2019). Castoro’s works were included in two of Lucy Lippard’s legendary Numbers shows, 555,087 at the Seattle Art Museum (1969) and 995,000 at Vancouver Art Gallery (1970). (Source)
- Catalogues
- Rosemarie Castoro. Enfocar al infinito, Barcelona: MACBA, 2018, 160 pp. Publisher. (Spanish)
- Tanya Barson, "Rosemarie Castoro 1964-1979: ¿Una carrera de obstáculos para quien baila?", pp 21-35.
- Rosemarie Castoro. Focus at Infinity, Barcelona: MACBA, 2018, 160 pp. Publisher.
- Tanya Barson, "Rosemarie Castoro 1964–79: An Obstacle Course for a Dancer?", pp 21-35.
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