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Liliana Barbagelata El asunto de la infamante siesta perdida, 1988
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The work is signed “Liliana Barbagelata” and dated “1988”.
Sizes:
Frame: 41 × 56 cm | 16.1 × 22 in
Artwork: 21.5 × 31.5 cm | 8.5 × 12.4 in
This expressive and narrative work by Liliana Barbagelata is a striking example of her figurative style, blending delicate ink line work with gestural applications of color. The composition features a group of stylized figures, suggesting a social or theatrical scene that feels both intimate and slightly surreal. The artist incorporates text into the artwork, with the title “EL ASUNTO DE LA INFAMANTE SIESTA PERDIDA (¡es espantoso!)” clearly inscribed within the image. The use of mixed media—combining ink and acrylic—creates a rich, layered aesthetic on paper, characteristic of Barbagelata’s evocative approach to storytelling through visual arts.
Provenance
Private Collection, Barcelona
Condition Report
The artwork is in good condition, presented in a green-toned decorative frame and protected under glass. The reverse side includes a label from “e Peñas MARCS I QUADRES” in Barcelona, as well as an identification label from “QUINTA DAS CRUZADAS” confirming the artist, title, and medium.
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Liliana Barbagelata
Liliana Barbagelata is a visual artist from Paraná, in the Argentine province of Entre Ríos, and a graduate of the Facultad de Artes of the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Her career has taken in multimedia work, graphic design, set design and comics alongside drawing, painting and sculpture, and in recent years installation.
Her figurative work of the 1980s combines fine ink line with gestural colour and often writes its own titles into the image, staging small social or theatrical scenes with a touch of the absurd. She has exhibited and won awards at national, provincial and municipal level, is included in the volume ‘Arte de Entre Ríos’ (Buenos Aires, 2008), and in 2019 published her first novel, ‘El renglón transparente’, illustrated with her own drawings.
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