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Ana Mendieta at Tate Modern: A triumphant tribute to a neglected visionary
Some of her Silueta series are captured on film, too. For these works, created between 1973-1980, Mendieta inscribed the outline of her body in landscapes using natural materials: flowers, fire, sand, mud and snow. They are, as Mendieta herself said, “basically in the tradition of a Neolithic art”. Many of the Silueta works, as well as her Rupestrian Sculptures, carved directly into the walls of the limestone caves of Jaruco Park in Cuba, evoke the curvaceous forms of the Willendorf Venus. Less well-known — and less accomplished — are her oil paintings, a handful of which are on show. Far more beautiful are her simple acrylics and graphite drawings on amate paper, a bark found primarily in Mexico and commonly used in Mayan contexts.
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