All Night Party In The Village
203 x 85 cm (in 4 pieces)
We all live in boxes. When I visited the hill top village of Castrovalva in Italy I was once again walking along medieval streets feeling the hundreds of years of atmosphere. From the streets the houses looked closed and abandoned, with just a few people wandering outside stopping every few metres to talk to their neighbours. I was intrigued. What was behind those closed doors and half shuttered rooms? What is life in such a small village like?
I spent the whole day just walking up and down, exploring, gradually day turned to night. So I made two paintings: one day, one night, and both beneath the stupendous sky above the piazza. Since I had seen the village from different places the paintings can be hung upright and upside down in order to see the same buildings from a different view point. Each painting has two views just like we do when we turn around.
