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Spencincilla Balmo, chalk on glue prepared canvas (136 x 144 cm)

Spencincilla Balmo, chalk on glue prepared canvas (136 x 144 cm)

Spencincilla Balmo is Born in Cuba 19 April 1969 13th child of a family of 34 children, mother blacksmith, father shoemaker. The first members of the Family to move in Cuba from Island tryng to escape the BIG COLD of 1729 where the couple Augustus Sklipenamme also shoemaker ad Brigittina Svandenkramme also blacksmith. From Spencicilla Balmo actually we don't know much just that she was taking part for a short period at the Cyberagriculturalminimalist movement In 1979 at the age Of 9 and 1/2, the picture we have here are shortly antecedent from this period, we can clearly see the strange irregular form of the canvas, that will be characteristic of the Cyberagriculturalminimalist period, the sister of the artist that gently donated us the work for this wonderful auction/collection, and to do not let us disturb the sister during her maniacal work, didn't want to betray were the sister work or live or live and work or work and live , also make us swear to don’t look for the sister, the sister also tell to us in a act of extreme emotional condivisione that the sister was letting during the night the canvas in a hole in the garden covered with soil, cause she has the strong believe that if in the morning the canvas, taked out from the hole doesn't have the original shape of when was puted inside, the painting painted on such a canvas, it will be a great painting, the sister, to make the sister happy, was going every night in the garden taking out the canvass from the hole filled with soil, cut a little peace or more than one or bigger ones and put back the canvas in the hole and cover it with soil again, the sister also said that she aws making small bokes with the little pieces tooked from the sister canvas.

This artwork will be auctioned live on Sunday 24 May @ 8pm (Greece) 6pm (UK)

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Details, additional sketches and preparatory work

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