Lea Vergine

Lea Vergine (5 March 1936 – 20 October 2020) was an Italian art historian specializing in performance art.[1][2]

Lea Vergine
Born
Lea Buoncristiano

5 March 1936
Naples, Kingdom of Italy
Died20 October 2020(2020-10-20) (aged 84)
Milan, Italy
NationalityItalian
OccupationArt historian, curator
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1978; died 2020)​

Career

Vergine was born in Naples[3] as Lea Buoncristiano.[4] She collaborated with many Italian journals, including Corriere della Sera. In 1974, she published her first book, titled Body art e storie simili: il corpo come linguaggio[5] which has been released in English as Body Art and Performance: The Body as Language .[4] She was one of the first people to promote performance art.[6]

After an exhibition held in Milan in 1980, as well as others in Rome, Venice, Amsterdam, and Stockholm, Vergine published L'altra metà dell'avanguardia, 1910-1940, which studied centuries of women artists.[7] She also helped to promote the career of Carol Rama.[8] In 2016, she published L'arte non è faccenda di persona perbene, a memoir of her career.[9]

Personal life

Vergine married artist and designer Enzo Mari in 1978. They had known each other since the 1960s.[10] Vergine died of COVID-19 in Milan on 20 October 2020 at the age of 84.[11] She died one day after her husband who also succumbed COVID-19.[12][13]

Selected publications
  • Body art e storie simili: il corpo come linguaggio (1974)[14] English translation: Body Art and Performance: The Body as Language (2000) ISBN 9788881186891[4]
  • L'altra metà dell'avanguardia, 1910-1940: pittrici e scultrici nei movimenti delle avanguardie storiche (1980)[15]
  • La vita, forse l'arte (2014)[16]
  • L'arte non è faccenda di persone perbene (2016)[17]

References
  1. "Vergine, Lea". Treccani (in Italian).
  2. "Covid, morta Lea Vergine un giorno dopo il marito Enzo Mari". Adnkronos (in Italian). 20 October 2020.
  3. "È morta la curatrice e critica d'arte Lea Vergine, un giorno dopo suo marito Enzo Mari". Il Post (in Italian). 20 October 2020.
  4. "Body Art and Performance: The Body as Language". Good Reads. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  5. "art critic lea vergine passes away the day after her husband enzo mari". designboom. 20 October 2020.
  6. "Five Radical Female Artists Who Used Their Body as a Canvas". AnOther. 21 October 2015.
  7. "A Century of Conflicted, Complicated Motherhood in Art". The New Republic. 6 May 2016.
  8. "For Carol Rama, Art Was a Way to Process Life's Pleasure and Pain". Artsy. 5 May 2017.
  9. "Lea Vergine: non chiamatela (soltanto) critica d'arte". Artribune (in Italian). 3 August 2017.
  10. Hilburg, Jonathan (2020-10-20). "Italian design legend Enzo Mari dies, a day before his wife, Lea Vergine". The Architect’s Newspaper. Retrieved 2020-10-22.
  11. "È morta la curatrice e critica d'arte Lea Vergine". Artribune (in French). 20 October 2020.
  12. "Lea Vergine ed Enzo Mari lotta continua con l'amore". La Reppublica (in Italian). 23 August 2012.
  13. "Mort d'Enzo Mari, dernier géant du design made in Italy". Le Temps (in French). 20 October 2020.
  14. "Il Corpo come linguaggio : (la Body-art e storie simili)". Library of Congress. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  15. "L'altra metà dell'avanguardia, 1910-1940". Library of Congress. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  16. "La vita, forse l'arte". Library of Congress. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  17. "Lea Vergine. L'arte non è faccenda di persone perbene". Madre Napoli (in Italian). Retrieved 22 October 2020.
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