"* Lauretta Vinciarelli于1943年出生于意大利，于2011年在纽约去世。她在罗马接受过建筑师的培训，但职业却是水彩画家，她的作品被许多人和**机构收藏，包括纽约现代艺术博物馆，华盛顿特区的国家美术馆和旧金山现代艺术博物馆。

这本书汇集了从1981年开始至今Vinciarelli作品中最完整的绘画作品。它还包括来自知识渊博的评论家的文字，并且首次展示了素描材料，使读者们可以深入了解Vinciarelli的工作方法。

在这些画作中，颜色被用作塑造空间的工具，而水彩则被选作媒介，因为它可以丰富地描绘光线刻画以及具备将糊状物与水混合的概念性简洁。

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"* Born in Italy in 1943, Lauretta Vinciarelli passed away in New York in 2011. Trained as an architect in Rome but a watercolorist by vocation, her works reside in numerous private collections and among the holdings of prominent institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery in Washington D.C., and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Noted for their luminous qualities of color and light, her depictions of imagined spaces open up a world of enclosed rooms, sweeping landscapes, watery materiality and atmospheric ephemerality. Describing her work, a noted theorist and critic once said, ""They are not architecture exactly, but evidence that it exists."" This book brings together paintings from 1981 onwards in the most complete collection of Vinciarelli's work to date. It also includes texts from knowledgeable commentators and for the first time presents sketch materials that provide an insight into Vinciarelli's working methodology.

Vinciarelli's technique often operated at the very limits of her medium; sometimes even to the point of failure. In these paintings, color is used as a device for shaping space, with watercolor the chosen medium for its rich portrayal of light and the conceptual simplicity of the act of mixing paste with water.

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