Artist's Pages: Porno Romo

摘要

Amikam Toren won the Rome Scholarship in 2009; these pages are inspired by that experience and how it initiated later work. Porno Romo looks at Rome as a living palimpsest, reconstructing the colosseum and using its original stones (which were removed in order to build the modern city), it provides the framework through which the artist reflects on his experiences during his stay in the city. a??It was only through sheer frustration that I picked up the bucket and threw the contents on to the studio floor, I looked at the scattered olive stones. From every angle, they looked like a negative photographic image of a galaxy (the cat is my witness).