Three Dimensional Works
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| El Angel Negro Reliquary |
Politician's Game
57 1/2" X 34" X 2 3/4" |
Ouiji
57 1/2" X 34" X 2 3/4" |
The reliquaries and altarpieces created by Poupee
Boccaccio make use of the magical and illusionary power of religious theatre.
The purposeful choice if the reliquary form imbues the art with a heightened
ritualistic expression, giving the contents added authority. These works are
not only containers of relics, both personal and cultural, they are also
repositories of memories, objects of meditation and worship, and finally, spaces
infused with faith. At the same time they are, I believe, a form of personal
expression in which the artist seems to be exploring the notion of duality in
nature and in contemporary culture.
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| Scarab Reliquary |
Hummingbird Reliquary |
La Ventana
Reliquary |
Relicario del fuego |
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In this piece, the
tiny bird is nestled into a hollow of lace within a red, glass-encrusted
heart. Wild flames spew from the top of the heart, and a halo of tinted
photographs surround it, each with the same, bittersweet image of a
young girl dressed as an angel and posing with a bow and arrow. A row of
glittering, coiled serpents sits below, each with a beast's head and
tongue shrieking upward. Each set of images resonates with the one
adjacent, crating alternating tides of tension and release. |
True to its name,
contains a flaming heart of myriad glass fragments, set against a backdrop
of darkly colored glass. Inside the heart is the shell of a scarab,
neatly preserved and painted gold. Below it are still more flames in
glass. Encasing this three- dimensional image is a black cabinet,
narrowing with three trumpeting angels. |
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Dos Mariposas Reliquary
16" X 24 1/4" X 6 1/4" |
Blue Moth Reliquary
16" X 25" X 3 1/2" |
Moonchild
20 1/4" X 34" X 4" |
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