Paolo Patrizi
#21

#21

© Paolo Patrizi

#21
#21
ArtistItalian, born 1965
CultureItalian
Titles
  • #21
  • from the series European Starlings
DateJanuary 2009
MediumChromogenic print
DimensionsImage: 15 3/4 × 15 3/4 in. (40 × 40 cm)
Sheet: 20 × 19 5/8 in. (50.8 × 49.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of the artist
Object number2011.236
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description


“Rome in winter, shortly before dusk, means one thing: wheeling, elegant flocks of starlings—murmurations—performing extraordinary aerial ballets that, from a distance, look like ink smudges,” noted the photographer Paolo Patrizi. For native Romans, however, the swarming birds mean droppings coating every building and car in the city. Though Patrizi’s photograph centers this beautiful avian aerial ballet, the darkness he includes at each corner of the photograph suggests the murkier reality this display brings.



ProvenanceThe artist, Tokyo; given to MFAH, 2011.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in ink, verso bottom center edge: "(signature) 2009"
Signed in ink, verso bottom center edge: "Paolo Patrizi"

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