The real life art world drama, that inspired my book Art, Love & Other Miracles…after my character Catalina has been widowed for almost a year: “her sister Sofia had started forcing her to come out with her, mostly to events that bored her husband, and that meant art shows, in those private art foundations and spectacular modern museums popping up all over Mexico. And then, an unexpected milagro-a miracle: at a special show at the Museo Soumaya, it had been blackness that had saved her. Catalina had stood there, transfixed, in front of a sculpture by Anish Kapoor- rendered in Vantablack, that darkest black that absorbed all light, making 3D objects look two-dimensional. Sofia had panicked upon finding her sister still standing in the same spot at the end of the evening. But somehow, that blackness had dragged Catalina back from the brink. It had provided some contrast to the darkness that had been consuming her soul. These conceptual art pieces had made her intrigued again, made her curious again, made her start searching for more artworks that would speak to her and make her feel something, anything. Made her want to open her own gallery at last. After all, if an artwork could do that for her, it could do it for others too.”
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