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Bortolami is pleased to present Barbara Kasten’s Figure/Chair, 1972-73, an exhibition based on a historical solo presentation of diazotype prints and mixed-media sculptures, first staged at the California College of Arts and Crafts (CCAC) in Oakland in 1973. On view will be a series of twenty-four digital archival pigment facsimiles of the original Figure/Chair diazotypes, alongside three of Kasten’s Seated Form fiber chair sculptures, created during her mentorship with renowned sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz (1930-2017) in Poland in 1971-72.
Works
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Seated Form (yellow)](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/f365f988e4359965a22bfc9b602438e4257910ed-2000x3000.jpg?w=800)
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Seated Form (green), 1972
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Seated Form (red), 1972
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Figure/Chair, 1973/2023
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Figure/Chair, 1973/2023
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Figure/Chair, 1973/2023
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Figure/Chair, 1973/2023
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Figure/Chair, 1973/2023
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Figure/Chair, 1973/2023
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Figure/Chair, 1973/2023
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Figure/Chair, 1973/2023
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Figure/Chair, 1973/2023
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Figure/Chair, 1973/2023
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Figure/Chair, 1973/2023
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Figure/Chair, 1973/2023
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Figure/Chair, 1973/2023
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Figure/Chair, 1973/2023
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Figure/Chair, 1973/2023
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Figure/Chair, 1973/2023
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Figure/Chair, 1973/2023
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Figure/Chair, 1973/2023
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Figure/Chair, 1973/2023
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Figure/Chair, 19733/2023
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Figure/Chair, 1973/2023
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Figure/Chair, 1973/2023
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Figure/Chair, 1973/2023
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Figure/Chair](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/9aac26aa3cd2dc16d8137841e59d8a0363c071de-3000x2317.jpg?w=800)