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The woman of the knots

The woman of the knots (1973) is shown to the public for the second time since its creation and with significant interventions compared to the previous version. The sculpture was stripped of the gauze that covered it and prevented its unveiling. The genesis of the work coincides, according to the Fluxus modes of action, with the work itself and the sculpture is composed over time by recreating several fragments, not the result of a personal vision but of a collective process: the rope with the knots, created by a person named Deutsch and seen in a brewery in Cologne where Brecht went in 1973 with Neapolitan friends; the visit to the marble quarry at Carrara, time later; and, finally, the sudden...

1973

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