She Can't Dream for Us All
Date
2005-2006
Artist
Dario Robleto, American, b. San Antonio, Texas, 1972
Provenance
D'Amelio Terras, New York, to 19 September 2008
Joseph H. Hirshhorn Purchase Fund, 2008
Exhibition History
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Strange Bodies," 11 December 2008-15 November 2009, no cat.
Published References
CRAIG, GERRY. "Dario Robleto: The Phantasm of Matter," Sculpture 26:2 (March 2007), pp. 40-41, ill. (International Sculpture Center, www.sculpture.org).
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Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Joseph H. Hirshhorn Purchase Fund, 2008
Data Source
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Accession Number
08.21
Type
Sculpture
Medium
Bone dust from every bone in the body cast and carved into the fossilized remnants of "Lucy" Australopithecus Afarensis (forerunner of human race), bone cores filled with melted vinyl and audio tape recordings of Sylvia Plath reciting her poems "Daddy" and "Lady Lazarus," homemade paper (pulp made from mothers', wives' and daughters' letters to soldiers in the field from various wars), ground iron, calcium, water extendable resin, pigments, lace, silk, walnut, and glass
Dimensions
42 × 48 × 24 in. (106.6 × 121.9 × 60.9 cm)
