Ugo Guidi, Totem woman (1971)
Indian ink, 50,5x35,1 cm
Forte dei Marmi, Museo Ugo Guidi
The 1971
Totem woman is the first of some drawings describing the woman turned into totem. The woman then melts herself with the search for purity and "primitiveness", and in this first drawing the change from "woman" to "totem" is not yet so sharp, even though the signs of a more abstract poetic start to make theirselves evident.
In
Totem woman some particulars that "nail" this figure to a real dimension are still visible: so we can see the eyes, the eyebrows, the nose, the mouth. But the face has lost its natural shape, the forehead is short, the chin is very wide, the neck is bull-like, the hair is stylized, the arms become geometric shapes.