food pantries; and punctuated, at the end, by a large
funeral at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City).
"Bodies against which we measure our own body, and
this is where we find the Italian aspect of Galtarossa's
work," writes Giacinto DiPietrantonio, "because the
measurement of body and space is the hallmark of
Italian art; it is something that cannot be lost even when
it adopts anticlassical forms and materials", a point that
would well serve the Vatican Museums: transformation
is a core narrative, both in art and in faith.
Galtarossa's suspended figures are barely bodies at
all; they are soft, floating constructs of paper, wool,
ribbon and glitter, suggestive of the body's softness and
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