Lucio Pozzi: 60 Yards of People and Things
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Author: Lucio Pozzi
The 400 pages of this volume focus on and document Lucio Pozzi's 'Crowd Groups': immense canvases or, alternatively, large sheets of white paper that, in both cases, were filled from hem to hem with dense brush strokes using only black paint. The book presents the images from the series both in enormous detail, and from a distance, thus simulating the gaze of an observer walking from one canvas to another. The works in their entirety can be found in the final pages of the volume.Pozzi's 'Crowd groups' were created in the winter between 2001 and 2002, during a night when he was devoting himself, by then exhausted, to the 'Rag Rugs', "a kind of mosaic of thick oil paint aligned in narrow parallel strips". With these words Lucio Pozzi recounts how, during an intense night's work, he suddenly switched from one technique to the other: "I saw on a Rag Rug a large horizontal canvas that had been stretched for an unsuccessful company commission. Out of a survival instinct I hung it on the wall and threw myself into doing the exact opposite of the Rag Rugs. Retaining from them the factor of filling the canvas from side to side (all-over composition), I chose a paintbrush, and instead of coloured geometries I started inventing even banal iconic formations and instead of using colours I worked only in black on the white background of the surface."
ISBN 9791254931455. Edizioni Corraini. pb. 400 pages. 13.5 x 20 cm.
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The 400 pages of this volume focus on and document Lucio Pozzi's 'Crowd Groups': immense canvases or, alternatively, large sheets of white paper that, in both cases, were filled from hem to hem with dense brush strokes using only black paint. The book presents the images from the series both in enormous detail, and from a distance, thus simulating the gaze of an observer walking from one canvas to another. The works in their entirety can be found in the final pages of the volume.Pozzi's 'Crowd groups' were created in the winter between 2001 and 2002, during a night when he was devoting himself, by then exhausted, to the 'Rag Rugs', "a kind of mosaic of thick oil paint aligned in narrow parallel strips". With these words Lucio Pozzi recounts how, during an intense night's work, he suddenly switched from one technique to the other: "I saw on a Rag Rug a large horizontal canvas that had been stretched for an unsuccessful company commission. Out of a survival instinct I hung it on the wall and threw myself into doing the exact opposite of the Rag Rugs. Retaining from them the factor of filling the canvas from side to side (all-over composition), I chose a paintbrush, and instead of coloured geometries I started inventing even banal iconic formations and instead of using colours I worked only in black on the white background of the surface."
ISBN 9791254931455. Edizioni Corraini. pb. 400 pages. 13.5 x 20 cm.
available