Carl Andre

In September 1985, Mendieta fell to her death from the window of her thirty-fourth floor apartment.

Evidence and reports from friends and neighbors pointed to her husband, fellow artist Carl Andre, having thrown her, but he was acquitted after three years of legal proceedings.

During the trial, Andre's defense, um, used Mendieta's work against her, suggesting that it represented suicidal tendencies, working with fire and explosions, uh, burying herself.

Mendieta's death and the way the art world sided with Andre galvanized the feminism of those on Mendieta's side and inspired protest arts.

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Carl Andre said, man climbs mountains because they're there, and man makes art because it's not there.

What artists do They explain things that you already knew, but they just say it in a different way.

And that's all I want to do is tell people all the incredibly intricate, fascinating, extraordinary things that you see if you have the time and the inclination to just observe.

UU., México, Cuba e Italia, se expresó con pintura y metal, flores y sangre, hojas y cenizas, plumas y pólvora, arena y velas de manera discreta o alarmante, y a menudo con la marcada presencia o ausencia de su propio cuerpo.

Hasta que una madrugada de otoño de 1985, cayó desde una ventana del piso 34 de un edificio en Nueva York en circunstancias que aún causan controversia y que incluyen un polémico juicio en el que su esposo, el artista Carl Andre, fue acusado y absuelto de asesinato.

Until one early morning in the autumn of 1985, he fell from a window on the 34th floor of a building in New York in circumstances that still cause controversy and that include a political trial in which her husband, the artist Carl Andre, was accused and acquitted of murder.

Hasta que una madrugada de otoño de 1985 cae desde una ventana del piso treinta y cuatro de un edificio en Nueva York en circunstancias que aún causan controversia y que incluyen un polémico juicio en el que su esposo, el artista Carl Andre, fue acusado y absuelto de asesinato.

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Stop glorifying violent men.

Dejen de glorificar a los hombres violentos.

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They had lots of fights, but so far so innocuous until she fell to her death from the 34th floor of a New York building, which was in fact Carl Andre's flat.

Carl Andre was suspected of her murder.

He was trialed and he was acquitted.

And the fact that he was considered innocent had a huge influence, not only on Ana Mendieta's reputation as a hysterical, angry Latina, you know, all the cliches, but also on the invisibility of her work.

So for Raquelin, It was important then to rally against the invisibilization of her sister's work.

And so they very rapidly organized.

And whenever Carl Andre had a solo exhibition, for example, or his work was shown somewhere, they would demonstrate outside of the premises.