painting / Italy 2017-18
The Italian words in these are from Antonio Gramsci's letters from prison, Leone Ginzburg's last letter from prison, and Natalia Ginzburg's writings about life under fascism, including her poem MEMORIA about the loss of her husband Leone, murdered by the Nazis in Rome in 1944.
GRAMSCI'S CAKES mixed media on canvas 75 x 75 cms
IF ELEPHANTS HAD WHEELS 76 x 57 cms on paper
FINGERPRINTS AT TURI 1928 mixed media on canvas 75 x 75 cms
COL VIOLINO (YOU LEFT WITH THE VIOLIN) (Gramsci to his wife in Moscow) 76 x 57cms mixed media on paper
Writing from prison, Gramsci tells his wife Julia that he always remembers how, after they first met, he stood watching her walk away in to the distance, with her violin in one hand and her travel bag in the other
PRISONER OF THE ICE (Antonio Gramsci) 76 x 57 cms mixed media on paper
From prison Gramsci wrote to his wife Julia, far away in Moscow, telling her not worry about him. He compared himself to the Arctic explorer Nansen, who let his ship become imprisoned by the ice hoping it would deliver him, years later, to the Pole.
LIZARDS ARE ALLIGATORS THAT NEVER GREW BIG (Gramsci in a letter to his elder son) 76 x 57 cms mixed media on paper
LA VITA E COSI (MUM, LIFE'S LIKE THAT- VERY HARD) 76 x 57 cms mixed media on paper
BIRTH OF THE ELEPHANT MAN 76 x 57 cms mixed media on paper
IF ELEPHANTS RULED THE WORLD 76 x 57 cms charcoal on paper
GINZBURG FAMILY TREE 76 x 57 cms mixed media on paper
NON LO SCACCIO (I NEVER FORGET YOU) from Leone Ginzburg's last letter to Natalie in February 1944 76 x 57 cms mixed media on paper
NON E TUA (THE CITY IS NOT YOURS) Natalia Ginzburg 76 x 57 cms mixed media on paper
SOLO ADESSO LO SO (I only know it now) 76 x 57 cms on paper
