Salo VI

At a very young age, Marilena Pelosi began to make drawings in which exuberant Catholicism and feverish Macumba, from her native Brazil, swirled to the point of delirium. The reminiscence of trance, eucharistic processions and carnivals are inextricably combined with much more intimate evocations. Established in France for several decades, she continues these same troubling drawings, made with ballpoint pens, in which doll-women are both executioners and victims. Now part of the CNAP collection, in 2019 she will join BIC (France), and in 2021 the Musée d’art moderne (Pompidou, France). In 2023, we presented works by Marilena Pelosi at ARCO Madrid.

Joseph Barbiero was born on July 13, 1901, in Trebaseleghe in the Veneto region of Italy. The second of eight children, he never attended school, as his father needed his help in the garden to grow food for the family. He left Italy at the age of 22 when Mussolini came to power and spent a short while in the south of France before settling in Beaumont, near Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne. He married Andrée Coustet, originally from Paris, in 1927, and took French nationality in 1931.As a professional stonemason, he was given the opportunity to take part in major projects in Clermont-Ferrand restoring Notre-Dame-du-Port basilica and the cathedral, using the local black volcanic rock from[…]