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For L.F.D.A. 02.Anita Molinero’s work takes the form of an assemblage of twenty-two “rubbish bins” in melted, coloured plastic, which the viewer discovers fixed to the ceiling, like monstrous carcasses. The familiar containers, usually seen in the basements of apartment buildings or lined up on the streets of our towns and cities, are among the favourite media of this “frustrated expressionist”. Anita Molinero loves to appropriate the fittings and “street furniture” of the urban environment in her work, recognising these easily-identifiable forms, so much a part of the public space, as powerful signs that can be readily harnessed and adapted to convey her uncomfortable message. Her shapeless, vividly-coloured “sculptures of abandonment” often draw on the simple, functional forms of these industrial objects, taken out of their habitual context and subjected to various “mistreatments”. This aesthetic of the “scrap-heap”, gaping holes, drips, excrescences and eviscerations, gives these meagre trophies an apocalyptic, sci-fi appearance, like the bizarre residues of a post-nuclear era. Inspired by the traditional figure of the witch with “a body of fire”, Molinero symbolically burns her industrial objects and their man-made substance. She “destroys” her ready-made form in order to rob it of its (now unusable) power, and nourish her own artwork. Anita MolineroFor the raw material of her work Anita Molinero uses products or residues from the industrial world,that she melts, compresses and remodels to bring forth shapeless sculptures. The urban landscape and its furnishings comprise one of her favourite artistic initiatives; the world of science fiction is another important source of inspiration. Anita Molinero’s sculptures are both sensational and monstrous, inviting the viewer to reflect on the status and future of ready-made objects in the post-atomic era. [V. Th.] Anita Molinero presents a monumental work that is a veritable contemporary "icon", comprised of industrial materials having been subjected, by the sculptor’s work, to the violence of our time (burning, crushing, deformation and other torments). Anita Molinero was born in 1953 in Floirac.
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