Porter, Liliana (1941–2000)
Porter, Liliana (1941–2000)
Liliana Porter (b. 6 October 1941; d. 2000), Argentine artist. Beginning in the late 1960s, Porter created prints, paintings, and wall installations in which she explores the relationships between illusion, artistic representation, and reality—a theme that has captivated many Argentine artists and writers. (Her major influences included the writer Jorge Luis Borges and the artist René Ma-gritte.) Born in Buenos Aires, she studied printmaking at the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, in 1960; she graduated from the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, in 1963. A year later Porter moved to New York City, where she attended the Pratt Graphic Art Center. In 1965 she, Luis Camnitzer, and José Guillermo Castillo founded the New York Graphic Workshop, where she began to create prints utilizing the techniques of photoetching and photo-silk screen. She simultaneously became a member of the conceptual art movement. Always a prolific printmaker, Porter produced numerous mixed-media paintings beginning in the early 1980s. In the early 2000s, Porter began taking still photographs of small toys and objects. For example, her work "Kiss" is a paparazzi-influenced photograph of a Minnie Mouse figurine kissing an image of Che Guevara. This series of work was shown at the Hosfelt Gallery in San Francisco.
See alsoArt: The Twentieth Century; Borges, Jorge Luis.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Liliana Porter: Obra gráfica, 1964–1990 (1990).
Mari Carmen Ramírez and Charles Merewether, Liliana Porter: Fragments of the Journey (1992).
Charles Merewether, "Displacement and the Reinvention of Identity," in Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century (1993).
Additional Bibliography
Porter, Liliana, and Inés Katzenstein. Liliana Porter: Fotografía y ficción. Buenos Aires: Centro Cultural Recoleta y Malba-Colección Costantini, 2003.
Porter, Liliana, and Virginia Pérez-Ratton. Liliana Porter: Una "puesta en imágenes." San José: TEOR/Ética, 2003.
John Alan Farmer