Ana Mendieta, Facial Hair Transplant, 1972.
"The Museum der Moderne Salzburg opened an extensive retrospective of the work of Ana Mendieta, one of our era’s most important and influential artists. Mendieta was born to a politically active family in Havana, Cuba in 1948. In the wake of the Cuban revolution, when she was only twelve years old, her parents sent her together with her sister to the United States. In 1985, at just thirty-six years old, she died under tragic circumstance in New York. During her short yet prolific career, she developed a unique visual language that is mesmerizing in its intimacy, and equally challenging. Her pioneering work has been acknowledged by large retrospectives in the United States and Europe, and is represented in the collections of major museums."
Ana Mendieta - Traces
Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
29.3.2014 - 6.7.2014
http://www.museumdermoderne.at/en/exhibitions/current/details/mdm/ana-mendieta/