LUCIA PESCADOR ALBUM 900

LUCIA PESCADOR ALBUM 900 – 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