Mirtha Dermisache

Mirtha Dermisache
Born 1940
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died 2012
Nationality Argentine
Alma mater Manuel Belgrano and Prilidiano Pueyrredón National Schools of Fine Arts
Known for Asemic writing

Mirtha Dermisache (1940-2012) was an Argentinian artist whose works of asemic writing have been published and exhibited internationally at venues including the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and MACBA in Barcelona, and collected by leading international arts institutions.[1]

Life and work

Dermisache was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1940. She studied visual arts at the Manuel Belgrano and Prilidiano Pueyrredón National Schools of Fine Arts.[2]

She published her first 500-page book in 1966-1967.[2] In the 1970s Dermisache's works were published in Latin America and Europe by the Centre of Art and Communication (CayC), led by Jorge Glusberg. From the mid-1970s through the 1980s Marc Dachy Guy Schraenen, Belgian editor and curator, also published and exhibited her works through the Archive for Small Press and Communication.[1] Her works were also published in the magazines Flash art, Doc(k)s, Kontext, Ephemera and Ax. Ulises Carrión exhibited her works in the gallery Other books and so (Amsterdam), and Roberto Altmann did the same in the Malmö Konsthall (Sweden). Her first solo show in Buenos Aires was in the gallery The Edge.[3]

Since 2004, Mirtha Dermisache together with Florent Fajole, a French publisher, made a series of publisher’s devices exploring the dimensions of installation and publishing, which have been presented in Buenos Aires, Paris, London and Rome.[4]

In 1971, she created the Workshop of Creative Actions in Buenos Aires where she imparted her visual arts teaching method. Between 1974 and 1981, she gave a cycle of public workshops named Colour and Form Conferences where she exposed her method: "How to develop creative skills by means of artistic techniques."

She has recently exhibited in the Proa Foundation, the Fine Arts Pavilion at the Argentine Catholic University (UCA), at the MACBA, Spain, at the Centre Pompidou where on the occasion of her recent incorporation in the collection she was part of the exhibition collection elles @ centrepompidou, and in different institutional spaces in France, like the Centre Des Livres d’Artistes and the Belfort School of Fine Arts Pavilion. Her latest group exhibition, dedicated to the issue of illegible writing, took place in gallery P420, in Bologna, Italy, along with artists such as Leon Ferrari, Hanne Darboven, Irma Blank and Daïdamano.

Solo Exhibitions and Publisher's Devices

Notable Group Exhibitions

Publications

Public and Private Collections

Archive of Small Press and Communication, Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen, Germany. Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires – mamBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina. MACRO, Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina. Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes Juan B. Castagnino, Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina. Colección Mauro Herlitzka, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain. Museo de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain. Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France. Bibliothèque Kandinsky, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France. Bibliothèque Nationale, Cabinet des Estampes, Paris, France. Centre International de Poésie Marseille, Marseille, France. Centre des Livres d’Artistes – CDLA, Saint-Yrieix-La Perche, France. Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal. Jean Brown Archive. Massachusetts, USA. Marvin and Ruth Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, Miami, USA. Museum of Modern Art - MOMA, Franklin Furnace, Artist Book Collection, New York, USA. University of Buffalo, New York, USA. University of North Caroline at Chapel Hill, North Caroline, USA. University of Ohio, Ohio, USA.

References

  1. 1 2 "Mirtha Dermisache, Konex Award 2012: Concept Art: Five Years Term 2002 - 2006". Fundacion Konex. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Mirtha Dermisache, biografia". Henrique Faria. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  3. ↑ Martínez, Olga. "Beyond the Written Word". PROA. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  4. ↑ "Mirtha Dermisache: publications by Florent Fajole, éditeur". Mirtha Dermisache: publications by Florent Fajole, éditeur. Mirtha Dermisache: publications by Florent Fajole, éditeur. Retrieved 7 March 2015.


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