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Marguerita Bornstein, best known by her first name, is an artist and sculptor. She was conceived in Tasmania, diagnosed as a tumor in Hobart, and born in Sydney, Australia,in 1950, to Salomea Fleischer Lauer, formerly a slave laborer for A.G. Nobel in Auschwitz-Birkenau, where she’d made bullets and had been told (incorrectly, it turned out) that her exposure to gun powder had left her infertile. Her number, tattooed on her left arm, was A-26.427. Mea, a cousin of the great animators Max and David Fleischer and of Bruno Jasienski, the author of Paris is Burning, liked to tell Marguerita that the tattoo washer phone number. Marguerita’s father, Dr. Stefan Felix Bornstein, was a Chemical and Textile Engineer and a writer published in Poland, France, Brazil, Switzerland and Germany.

Her Polish parents moved to Brazil,where she had her first drawing published at the age of nine and was soon working regularly for the press and winning art awards.

Back in Australia in 1970-73,she worked for television and studied life drawing and began making animated films.Back in Brazil,she was drawing for the Jornal da Tarde-O Estado de S.Paulo,daily newspaper.

Marguerita created the title sequence drawings for O Rebu,a soap opera by Braulio Pedroso,for Tv Globo,winning wide popularity. http://www.teledramaturgia.com.br/rebuab.htm.

Two Humor pages,one in Manchete and the other ,Margarida,The Incredible Modern Woman, in Revista Mais,besides creating concepts and illustrations for ad campaigns.In 1975/76,a four page article,appeared on her work ,in Graphis #179-the International Journal of Graphic Art and Applied Art."She has been earning her living with drawing since she was thirteen.It is quite simply the passion of her life.Nothing is still in it,it is always billowing,sometimes delirious motion.Her picture of humanity- and humanity is her subject- is pure satire.

Her colours are bright but brilliantly managed.She says she is a 'cynic and romantic'.Yes,there is a romantic hidden inside her,as in most satirists.But cynic?No.Her quality is rather sheer mischievousness-mixed with a good measure of gaiety.- Stanley Mason In 1976,Marguerita moved.to New York City,where she still lives,with her two sons,showing her work in art galleries, comics: The Hormones,Zyg and Mea,Box Art.

Marguerita's illustrations have appeared in the New York Times, the Village Voice,The Nation,Vogue,Avenue, the Forward, and New Partisan.com Her work has also graced book covers for writers Reinaldo Arenas, and Ariel Dorfman (Viking). She is currently working on her own book projects.

Some places her work appears are: