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Works of Argentine printmaker Claudia Bernardi
Claudia Bernardi's art is heavily influenced by her exposure to political terror in her native Argentina. However, unlike Leon Golub, Nancy Spero and other artists, the Berkeley, CA-based printmaker does not produce grim images, but creates bright landscapes that convey spiritual transcendence.See the full content of this document
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Haunting hues of silence.
Though Claudia Bernardi has never been tortured, threatened with death, or forced to witness the atrocities of warring guerrilla armies, she knows more about the lives of those who have survived such horrors than most people care to imagine. A native of Argentina, a country whose government "disappeared" untold thousands of its citizens during her early adulthood in Buenos Aires, Bernardi understands such terror almost intuitively.
For the past five years, the forty-year-old Berkeley, California-based printmaker has taught art to political refugees from El Salvador, many of whom fled during the civil war that claimed an ...See the full content of this document
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