Florence – Anna Poor

SACI's Maidoff Gallery presents Sinners, Saints and Relics: Installation of 3D artworks by Anna Poor. Anna Poor's work is inspired by art historical references, techniques, and objects from the past: from the alabaster, shell and lapis lazuli Syrian sculpture of the Administrator Ebih-il (2400 B.C in the Iraq Museum) and the carved limestone Assyrian wall relief depicting Prince Assurbanipal II’s lion hunt (7th c. B.C. in the British Museum), to Lorenzo Ghiberti’s cast bronze bas relief Gates of Paradise (15th c) and Alberto Giacometti’s Woman with her throat cut (1932).

The sculptures are diminutive in scale and encourage thought on the critical contemporary issues of appropriation, ownership, and destruction of cultural objects. Anna will be creating a site-specific installation in SACI’s Maidoff Gallery of sculpted invented artifacts, based on and referencing artworks and architecture with materials found in Tuscany, such as alabaster mined near Florence. Her work deals with historical fragments repositioned in the contemporary world using contemporary sensibility with traditional, hand-crafted techniques.