LUCIA PESCADOR ALBUM 900
LUCIA PESCADOR ALBUM 900
Works Lucia Pescaddor
Texts Lucia Pescador, Marta Sironi
Edited by Marta Sironi
Editorial design Michela Palermo, Simona Spadoni
30 color plates
Dimension 21 X 31,5 cm
Printed in Italy
Available to preorder - please be advised that this title is scheduled for shipment after 14 October.
Palermo Publishing is pleased to present ALBUM 900, the new book by Italian artist Lucia Pescador. ALBUM 900 takes the reader on a unique journey through Lucia Pescador's reinterpretation of 20th century art and culture.
"When we started working on the archive in 2018, trying to navigate through the countless works in the compartment of her home studio that serves as a storage space, Lucia Pescador's creative engagement with everything related to memory naturally extended to her works. The artist began to rethink them by organising them into the 'pages' of her album. In an instinctive response to working on her own archive, Pescador has reoriented it into a manageable form, in which fragments of her works - in the form of drawings, films, linoleum, painted surfaces - become the centre of the constellation of images on each plate, themselves derived from the various iconographic repertoires she has long used. (...) Lucia Pescador's work is a tapestry in which literary and visual interests are interwoven with personal experience and the axial themes of her practice: nature and geometry, East and West, drawing and photography, the avant-garde and the 'unknowns' of the 20th century. These themes and iconographic references reappear in the pages of ALBUM 900, where the artist has accompanied the fragments of her works with newspaper cuttings, comic strips, technical and scientific illustrations, postcards and photographs found and taken by the artist during her travels, in exhibitions and museums, or at home'. Marta Sironi, curator
In order to capture the fluidity and openness of Lucia Pescador's creative process, this first printed selection of ALBUM 900 has been published unbound, in an edition of 700 copies. The format allows the book to be read intuitively, emphasising the relational and polyphonic nature of Lucia Pescador's work. The plates are presented in their entirety, thus inviting the reader to experience the collection through dynamic double pages or as single pages, which can be extracted to create new narratives and associations.
Lucia Pescador was born in Voghera on 9 February 1943. She graduated in Decorative Arts under Giovanni Usellini at the Brera Academy, beginning her artistic career in 1965. From 1977 to 1989 she was a member of the Metamorphosis group (with Alessandra Bonelli, Lucia Sterlocchi and Gabriella Benedini) and has since continued to explore the group’s thematic bent. Foremost among these is the dialogue between Culture and Nature. The artist has explored this relationship since the early 1990s through Inventario di fine secolo con la mano sinistra (End-of-the-Century Inventory with the Left Hand), a series sorted by category - Art, Artist, Geometries, Hotel du Nord, Nature, Puzzles, etc.- in which she copies twentieth-century works. Using her left hand (despite not being left-handed), she enhances the works’ expressive and interpretative aspect while evoking the twentieth- century process of dismantling academic representation. Her interest in culture and memory can be ascribed to a postmodernist attitude, albeit in a poetic key that always emphasizes drawing.
She has exhibited in Italy and abroad, particularly in the Netherlands and Belgium. Lucia Pescador has been represented by Apalazzogallery, Brescia, since 2021, following her participation in the autumn 2020 group exhibition Il Volto Sinistro dell’Arte: Romana Loda e l’arte delle donne (The Left Face of Art: Romana Loda and Women’s Art), curated by Raffaella Perna. She has held her most recent solo exhibitions there: Geometrie per Sonia Delaunay e Joseph Beuys (Geometries for Sonia Delaunay and Joseph Beuys), 2021; and Africa per sentito dire e varia umanità (Africa by Hearsay and Varied Humanity), 2023.