Artist on Art: Chitra Ganesh on Leonor Fini's "La Gardienne des Phoenix"

Former Associate Curator at the Des Moines Art Center Jared Ledesma was struck by visual and thematic parallels between Chitra Ganesh's work "Urgency" (2020) and a long-term loan to the Art Center, Leonor Fini's "La Gardienne des Phoenix" (1952) and invited the Ganesh to speak about these two pieces made nearly five decades apart.

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