Silvia levenson biography

  • BiographySilvia Levenson was.
  • Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Levenson immigrated to Italy in during the “disappearances” of the Dirty War. She received the Rakow Commission.
  • Silvia Levenson is an Argentine contemporary artist and political activist working in glass.

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    IDENTIDAD DESAPARECIDA

    I was born in Buenos Aires in

    I was part of a generation that fought to change a society that seemed to us terribly unjust. I was 19 years old when in the military gained power with a coup d’état, and in August of that year my daughter Natalia was born. She is now the same age as the youth born during the dictatorship, from whom the military government stole biological identities. With inconceivable cruelty, pregnant female prisoners were assassinated after having given birth, and newborns were illegally put up for adoption and treated as “war booty”.

    What happened between and , throughout the military dictatorship, changed my life as it did to the majority of Argentineans, and it certainly influenced my art work.

    As an artist I have always been interested in interpersonal relationships and in the relationship between family and society. In this case those who brought to conclusion the illegal adoptions had to keep the family secrets sealed, while counting on the complicity of those who chose not to look or search beyond.

    Until now, after extensive research, the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo have identified at least five hundred cases of children stolen from their parents or born in captivity, who were subsequently illegally put up for adoption. I

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    Silvia Levenson

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    BIO

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    Vetro e Opera lirica. Curated by Sandro Pezzoli. Castello Sforzesco, Milan (MI), Italy
    Femminile Plurale. Curated by Margaret Sgarra. Dr Fake Cabinet, Turin (TO), Italy
    Hand Made   Ptuj City Gallery &#; Ptuj, Slovenia
    Indifference. A cura di Margaret Sgarra. Casa Museo Gramsci.

    The element of change. Glass Project. Berlin, Germany
    I . Levantart Gallery. Shangai. China
    ContemporaneA. Bi box, Biella. Italy


    The blood of women. Traces of red on white cloth. Galerija Forum, Zagreb. Croazia
    The Glass Cieling. Palm Spring Museum. USA
    Arte &#; Tecnologia. Lan Wan Museum, Quingdao. China
    Un passion partagée. Musee Atelier de Sars Poteries. France


    Glass from the collection Bellini Pezzoli. Archeological Museum, Zara
    Art Byre Project, North Lands, Scotland organized by Bullseye Projects
    Fired Up : Conntemporary Women working in glass. Mint Museum, Charlotte. USA
    Departures and arrivals. Lorch Seidel Gallery, Berlin. Germany
    The emotional life of objects. Bullseye Projects. Portland (OR) USA
    Il Sangue delle Donne.Casa Internazionale delle donne. Roma, Italy
    Life is not a beach. Alexander Tutsek Stiftung Munich, Germany


    Colors . Hempel Glass Museum. Hempel, Denmark
    Contemporary Glass at RAM. Racine Art Museum. USA
    Attravetro. A

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