What is the meaning of the word scape? It is the view or scene of something. Asylumscapes therefore describes a precise scenario, that of the place of the asylum as seen by the artist herself. The place in question is the former asylum in Rome, Santa Maria della Pietà, a place traversed by Monica Lundy in different directions. In the past, the artist has made works starting from archival images, site visits, and later she made burned drawings of objects belonging to that place. For this exhibition, however, Lundy, not at all tired of looking at the place once again to probe the pulse of memory to its depths, embraces it with paint, as if she were treating a landscape. Yes, a landscape, precisely one of the topos of painting.
Image Credit: Monica Lundy, Natalina (Santa Maria della Pietà, Rome), 2021, mixed media with liquid porcelain on panel in wooden frame, 28 x 35 x 2 inches
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Image Credit: Monica Lundy, Natalina (Santa Maria della Pietà, Rome), 2021, mixed media with liquid porcelain on panel in wooden frame, 28 x 35 x 2 inches
What is the meaning of the word scape? It is the view or scene of something. Asylumscapes therefore describes a precise scenario, that of the place of the asylum as seen by the artist herself. The place in question is the former asylum in Rome, Santa Maria della Pietà, a place traversed by Monica Lundy in different directions. In the past, the artist has made works starting from archival images, site visits, and later she made burned drawings of objects belonging to that place. For this exhibition, however, Lundy, not at all tired of looking at the place once again to probe the pulse of memory to its depths, embraces it with paint, as if she were treating a landscape. Yes, a landscape, precisely one of the topos of painting.
Image Credit: Monica Lundy, Natalina (Santa Maria della Pietà, Rome), 2021, mixed media with liquid porcelain on panel in wooden frame, 28 x 35 x 2 inches
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Image Credit: Monica Lundy, Natalina (Santa Maria della Pietà, Rome), 2021, mixed media with liquid porcelain on panel in wooden frame, 28 x 35 x 2 inches
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