“Cities, like dreams, are built of desires and fears, even if the thread of their speech is secret, their rules absurd, their perspectives deceitful and each thing hides another. You don't enjoy the seven or seventy-seven wonders of a city, but the answer it gives to your question, or the question it asks, forcing you to respond...” (Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities, Harcourt 1978)
It’s an ongoing work inspired by Le Città Invisibili, a book of the italian writer Italo Calvino (1923-1985).
This is a series of travel reports that Marco Polo, the young Venetian explorer, makes to Kublai Kan, the Emperor of the Mongols. A fascinating dialogue between a melancholic and old emperor (aware that his boundless power counts for very little because his world is collapsing) and a young visionary explorer who tells of impossible cities: totally 55 and each with a woman's name.
Exhibition Opening, Cafè Portalen Kristiansand, Thursday 10 January 2019:
It’s an ongoing work inspired by Le Città Invisibili, a book of the italian writer Italo Calvino (1923-1985).
This is a series of travel reports that Marco Polo, the young Venetian explorer, makes to Kublai Kan, the Emperor of the Mongols. A fascinating dialogue between a melancholic and old emperor (aware that his boundless power counts for very little because his world is collapsing) and a young visionary explorer who tells of impossible cities: totally 55 and each with a woman's name.
Exhibition Opening, Cafè Portalen Kristiansand, Thursday 10 January 2019: