SATURDAY 7/8, Noon-6pm ⁠ FINAL DAY! CARVING WORDS: ⁠WOODCUTS BY ANTONIO FRASCONI⁠ ⁠MIGUEL FRASCONI, the artist’s son, will be hosting in the gallery⁠

SATURDAY 7/8, Noon-6pm ⁠

FINAL DAY!

CARVING WORDS: ⁠WOODCUTS BY ANTONIO FRASCONI⁠

⁠MIGUEL FRASCONI, the artist’s son, will be hosting in the gallery⁠

⁠Flow Chart Space’s first formal exhibit: woodcut prints at play with language by Uruguayan-American artist Antonio Frasconi. ⁠

⁠348 Warren Street, Hudson, NY⁠

⁠⁠The Flow Chart Foundation announces its first formal exhibit in our Flow Chart Space, to showcase woodcut prints by Uruguayan-American artist Antonio Frasconi (1919–2013) featuring poetry and other texts. ⁠⁠

Frasconi lived in three languages—Spanish, Italian, and English—and had a lifelong love of literature. Much of his woodcut artistry illuminates the work of favorite poets and writers, including Lorca, Whitman, Poe, Thoreau, Hughes, Machado, Mario Benedetti (a childhood friend), and many others. Much of the exhibition features work demonstrating Frasconi’s strong anti-fascist literary leanings. ⁠

Hand carving each individual letter of text, as a master of color and composition, Frasconi’s way of working with wood and text is nothing short of astounding. In a 1963 interview he said, “Sometimes the wood gives you a break and matches your conception of the way it is grained. But often you must surrender to the grain, find the movement of the scene, the mood of the work, in the way the grain runs.” Frasconi also produced a number of books for children featuring woodcuts with texts in French, Italian, Spanish, and English.⁠

Time magazine called Frasconi “America’s foremost practitioner of the ancient art of the woodcut.” His work represented Uruguay for the 1968 Venice Biennale, and is included in national and international collections including the National Museum of Visual Arts Uruguay; the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art; the New York Public Library; the National Gallery of Art; the Smithsonian; and the National Portrait Gallery, as well as many other institutions.