Rosa Barba

Marfa Tracks, c. 2014

Lithograph

15 x 28 in (38.1 x 71.12 cm)

Edition. Printer's Proof (From the edition of: 1 BAT, 2 PPs, 2 APs, and 5 numbered editions)

$14,000

Gift of Janet Lennie Flohr

Estimate $12,000 - $14,000

Rosa Barba created Marfa Tracks as a part of her Artpace exhibition, New Works. Barba’s interest in where societies mingle with materials like land gave birth to the series. “I see them as documents left by society,” said Barba, “The land has its specific history and manifestation, and these inscriptions meld together.” The series is part of an ongoing project that began in Marfa when the artist noticed the marks each train left on the rail. Barba used tracing paper to make rubbings of the rail and intends to do the same all over the United States, creating “another kind of archive” where society and material interact.

About the artist

Rosa Barba

Sicilian-born artist Rosa Barba’s publications, sculpture, and installation work is rooted in the material of cinematic film. Using 16mm and Super 8 film, she explores the interplay between the conceptual and film as an object. In 2010, she won the Nam June Paik Award for Coro Spezzato, The Future Lasts One Day (2009), based on a multi-choral performance in which each member of the choir is represented by an individual film projector displaying the sung text. She was a resident artist at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa in 2013 and the Dia Art Foundation in 2008. Her work has been presented in exhibitions worldwide, including Time As Perspective (2013) at the Bergen Kunsthall; Auto Kino! (2010) at the Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin; Making Worlds at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009; and Italics: Italian Art Between Tradition and Revolution, 1968-2008 (2008-9) at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice and at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.