The Boston Globe, October 3rd, 2000
Silvana Cenci, a sculptor who blasted her way onto the local art scene in the 1960s, died Sunday in her home in Gray, Maine. She was 74. Ms. Cenci worked primarily in stainless steel. She fashioned fountains and other works for many public buildings, including an abstract bear that once reposed in the administration building at Grahm Junior College in Kenmore Square and the baptistry doors at First Baptist Church in Keene, N.H. She used Primacord, Tetraytol, and other military and industrial high explosives to create those works. "To me the explosive is a tool, like a brush if you were a paint...
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