Artwork
#Alice Pasquini
#murals
#portraits
#public artwork
#road artwork
Italy (2023). All photos © Alice Pasquini, share with permission
“What does a wall have {that a} canvas doesn’t?” asks Rome-based artist Alice Pasquini. Bursting with vibrant hues and tender optimism, Pasquini’s murals are pushed by her ongoing curiosity in human emotion, relationships, and connection. Overarching themes so common and timeless enable passersby to narrate indirectly, seeing photos of curious figures peering on the world by way of binoculars with child-like marvel or floating weightlessly alongside a constructing.
As she blankets partitions with large-scale items whereas touring to totally different nations, the artist makes an effort to immerse herself in every tradition. Pasquini developed her apply by deepening engagement with communities, leading to depictions of intimate narratives distinctive to their environments. “Every mural I create represents a narrative, typically of exclusion however extra ceaselessly of redemption,” the artist says. “This consists of works in locations like ladies’s prisons and shelters for minor immigrants. I name it contextual artwork—artwork that’s born for a selected place and couldn’t exist in the identical means elsewhere. The scars of the town are the perfect canvases to convey worth again to deserted issues.”
Pasquini is engaged on a publication and exhibition for her unpublished journey sketchbooks and getting ready a big set up for Docs With out Borders, which shall be introduced in October in Ferrara, Italy. See extra on the artist’s web site and Instagram.
Italy (2024)
London (2022)
Milan (2021)
Hong Kong (2024)
Italy (2024)
Rome (2021)
#Alice Pasquini
#murals
#portraits
#public artwork
#road artwork
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