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Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 39.4 W x 39.4 H x 0.8 D in
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Piero Bortoli “Isola San Francesco del Deserto” 2013 Media: acrylic on canvas Size: 100 x 100 cm Isola San Francesco del Deserto This island is a green oasis of calm amongst the sandbanks surrounding Burano. On his return from Palestine, the Saint from Assisi stopped in the lagoon at Torcello, a rich and crowded city at the time, and seeking solitude, he went to the Isola delle Due Vigne, as the island was known then, to pray. Once back in Assisi, Saint Francis sent some of his fellow monks to that place of prayer and meditation. In 1228, two years after the death of Francis, the island’s owner, a rich patrician, had a church built in his name and several years later donated the island to the Franciscans. Given the unwholesome climate, the friars were forced to abandon it and it was given the name Saint Francis of the desert. Around 1450 the friars returned and enlarged the church, the monastery and lived there until 1806 when, following the confiscation of monasteries by Napoleon, was abandoned once again when it was turned into a military barracks and powder magazine. Francis I of Austria donated the island to the Venetian Patriarchy in 1856 and on the 31 May of that year, the Franciscan friars solemnly took possession once more. It has been completely restored and maintained with a magnificent garden and is still a place of Franciscan prayer.
Painting:Acrylic on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:39.4 W x 39.4 H x 0.8 D in
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I was born in 1965 in Venice, where I studied History of Art and later trained with Emilio Vedova. I use a wide variety of materials and techniques to explore decline and regeneration within urban culture and make sense of the dynamic process of change and transformation within a variety of environments. I have shown my work in a wide variety of contexts: traditional solo and collective shows; indoor and outdoor performance and installation projects in collaboration with other artists and musicians: in particular, a performance at the 2001 Venice Biennale, the 2002 Liverpool Biennial, a series of shows at the Unity Theatre and Bluecoat Art Centre in Liverpool in 2004, Modern Art Oxford in 2008 and most recently a personal show at Taplow Court near Maidenhead. Most recently I have been focusing on private commissions, inviting people into my studio to see my work or taking my work onto the streets in interdisciplinary live performances.
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