Artnotes: Collection

 

Unlocking   Blair Pessemier Acrylic/canvas x 9 x 18"  23 x 46cm  390.00  The Maramotti Museum is one of my favorite museums.  This year has been particularly good, with guest exhibitions by women artists, who are, frankly, over the top.   It is a year of honoring women for the museum, and they have also formed a liaison with a similar contemporary art museum featuring women, in Indonesia. I wrote some weeks ago  about Malgorzato MirgaTas’s work there, about the Rom People.  This new exhibit was as good.  Coincidentally perhaps, both of these works suggested fabric, a crucial element in the continuing Max Mara clothing business. Clover and Small Pink Flower     Laurie Fox Pessemier  Acrylic on Paper 17 x 12"  43 x 30cm   190 each This exhibit, entitled Cannon Fodder, was inspired by the artist Guiditta Branconi painting on her grandmother’s linen wedding dress.  The fabric was light, and it allowed the paint to appear on both sides of the surface.  This idea was further illustrated by a part of the exhibition where one could walk through a “tunnel of paintings”, illuminated by the natural lighting in the room.   It was fascinating. From the Exhibit:  Guiditta Brondconi at Maramotti Cannon Fodder seemed an odd name for the exhibit, but it was meant to represent the barrage of information we are inundated with on a daily basis.  There were many words in a variety of languages; stencils, social media posts, and images of vulnerable creatures.  All presented on this thin linen support, which had meaning for the artist.   It was a flood of information that one could spend a very long time with.   We loved it. Zocchetta View Laurie Pessemier  Acrylic/paper 17 x 12"  43 x 30cm  190.00 I liked it because it was a little like my work, too.  In fact, when I showed pictures of it at the art salon, people thought it was mine.  I paint often on newspaper, so words and pictures bleed through ever so slightly from behind flowers and soft images. Obscure as it may seem, my art is connected to world events. Zocchetta View  Blair Pessemier  Acrylic/canvas 21.5 x 18"  55 x 46cm  490.00 We try to see an exhibit a week while we are up in Roccamalatina.  There are a plethora of museums up here, in Parma, Reggio Emilia (like this one), Bologna…   I can’t resist an interesting museum – not necessarily art, either.  I equally enjoy historical bits, or plants, or whatever someone collected.  I think of the button museum in Waterbury, Connecticut where I have whiled away many an afternoon.  Blair is more of a collector than I am – I can never narrow it down. Ajuga Flowere   Laurie  Pessemier  Acrylic/paper17 x 12"  43 x 30cm  190.00 I find things at the side of the road for example.  This week, in an old telephone booth turned library, I found the most beautiful cookbook I ever saw.  It was issued by an Italian cookware company, whose focus was the design of pans.  Italians are the best industrial designers.   The cookbook contains great recipes, including sauces and preserves.  The photography is truly magnificent.  I’ll add it to my collection. Terra Cotta Friends    Laurie Fox Pessemier  Acrylic/paper   15 x 11"   38 x 28 cm  190 each 2 for 300

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