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ABOUT THE ARTWORK
When I was asked to show my work at the US Embassy Tri Mission gallery, I humbly embraced this singular opportunity. As I contemplated the vision of what I would create solely for the halls of this great institution – one theme emerged and stayed with me. Considering the transience of many diplomats' locations – changing every two or three years – I desired to create something that was inherently Roman in feeling, a way to abstractly understand the place. Maps are the first concrete understanding of place, a way to visually comprehend what can be overwhelming in a new town. In 2002, coming from my native NYC, where I can navigate with ease by rote, I was truly a foreigner on the streets of my new city. For the Embassy series, I printed oversized sections of Giambattista Nolli's Pianta Grande di Roma, 1748 (The Great Map of Rome). He was one of the city's most definitive and certainly passionate cartographers. Using paper and acrylic and other media, I created collages over the map prints, removed and added more – layering continuously. Inspired by the street and the natural corrosion of paper posters, ads and street artists' markings, I aimed to express the evolution of a place through time and memory. The show resulted in seven site-specific pieces, all on wood panel – some of them found wood panels off the street itself. This installation belies a longing to comprehend and encapsulate that which is ever-changing despite fixed points: the texture of a City and the emotions of creating memories and attachments to it.
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Print:
Giclee on Fine Art Paper
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8 W x 12 H x 0.1 D in
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13.25 W x 17.25 H x 1.2 D in
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Artist Claudia Palmira, a native New Yorker, lives and works in Rome since 2006. Her work looks back at cultural icons and forward to the representations and juxtapositions available through new technologies. The result is a distinctly contemporary oeuvre replete with references to the works of masters of the Roman, Renaissance and Baroque periods, whose marks appear everywhere around her adopted city. The works revisit the visual poetics of the past and encourage a fresh look at iconic landmarks that have paved the path of art history. Adding, taking away, embellishing, redefining – these are part of her creative process. Claudia begins with a blank canvas or screen and continuously places, removes, hides and rediscovers imagery with paper, paint, adhesive – or, on the screen, with virtual painting, opacities and filters. She does not want to simply create a beautiful image, but “intend that image to contain a feeling that transformation has occurred, and as such, can be inspiring, perhaps evoking a sense of the ephemeral.”
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