Lucia Pescador
ABOUT ARTIST
Lucia Pescador (b. 1943, Voghera, Italy) graduated at Art Academy of Brera in Milan, she also taught in an Art School, Lucia Pescador has always preferred drawing, working on issues related to nature, culture and art . She began to exhibit in 1965 at Arte Centro Gallery in Milan, now Lattuada Studio. She was a member of the Group Metamorphosis in the '70s - '80s working alongside colleagues Benedini, Bonelli, Sterlocchi. She showed her ‘80s works in the exhibition titled "A ship for Kazimir (Malevich) by Lea Vergine in Stelline Refectory in 1992.
By the '90s, she began collecting and cataloging images for entries on art and culture of the 20th century, entitled "Inventory of the twentieth century with left hand" that goes beyond 2000. This “Inventory” includes: Art, Vases, Africa, Hotel du Nord Hotel Meublé-Berlin, Tokyo, Architecture, The Papyrus of Ani, Iconostasis, Crete, Puzzles, Atelier Stieglitz, Bauhaus. A lot of them were exhibited both in Italy and abroad: on 1994 there was "Craftsman" exhibition with drawings, hats, vases, carpets in Lattuada Studio, Milan; during the same year she organized “Papyrus of Ani"(designed on tables of logarithms, with mountains and vessels) in Open Space Gallery in Amsterdam, then the show was transferred to the Egyptian Academy in Rome in 1996.
Another exhibition, "Hotel du Nord", took place in 1996 in Trieste at Lipaniepuntin Gallery and it was about internal architectures and comics; after a few years, in 2000, in the same gallery, she exhibited "Puzzles". In 1998, organized "Vases Pitchers Nature" in Swan Gallery in New York and in 1999. She exhibited "Vases architecture” at the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles. "Heart of Europe" opened at Ramba Gallery in Los Angeles and it is the story of the historical Vanguard, drawn on old photos of landscapes and portraits. “Atelier Stieglitz” depicts the interior of the famous gallery with drawings of African masks and motifs of the Vanguards with old photos as media: the cycle is shown at the Centre Rops in Brussels in 2000," Africa "is presented during the same year at Lattuada Studio. The exhibition that concluded the 90s, was entitled "Time Change", held at the Abbey Olivetana Rodengo Saiano, edited by M. Corgnati and R. White, and holds most of the Inventory.
The artist continues to work on new entries of her Inventory such as "Black Japan" and "Yellow China," staged by Corraini in Mantua in 2003; "Ambulants between West and East," edited by A. Veca for Spazio Bazar in Milan in 2005: this show was later transferred to Camalanjan Gallery in Mumbai in 2006 and then to Expocasa in Shanghai in 2007.
She worked on two other voices, "Rome Cinema '' and "East". "Hotel Meublé-Berlin'' and "Bauhaus" were presented in Cagliari and at the Stand Museum in Siegburg in 2005 and 2007, "Caravanserai,however, was exhibited in Vigevano and Trieste in 2008. She presented the 20 meters long installation which describes the ancient Chinese and European landscape, during the Far East Visionary Film in Udine in 2009.
During 2010, born the project “Wundernachtkammer'', prepared in a room of the Napoleonic wing of Palazzo Te in Mantua, with masks, objects, drawings and photographic images, displayed on acetate, of the city and its monuments at night, with texts by G. Belli; after that Lucia Pescador made an intervention, titled “Löwenstein Suite – Nocturne” at Trezzo castle curated by Alberto Crespi. In the autumn of 2010 she exposed in the Scale Mobili Group, in part with Angiola Churchill, Ali Farhazad, Annamaria Gelmi, Giuliano Giuman, Silvestro Lodi, Gianni Robusti, at Lattuada Studio, with texts by Cristiana Curti and Massimo Donà. After that there was a show curated by Cristiana Curti The rule of the right hand at Museo MAGI in Pieve di Cento.
In 2011 there was Wundernachtkammer lost dream at Museo della Carale in Ivrea for a group show curated by Lorena Giuranna.
The show, The deviation of the shadow in 2012 with Bonelli and Comenduni in Quinto Cortile Gallery in Milan with an introduction by Kevin McManus.
In the same year there was a Wundernachtkammer for Ettore Sottsass in Lithos Gallery in Como introduced by Elena di Raddo with the catalog by Andrea Branzi. During 2013 there were four group shows in private and public places: 1966 – 76 Milano and the great hope years in Bocconi University in Milan curated by Francesco Poli.
After that The journal goes on, in MAGA Museum in Gallarate and then in Triennale Museum in Milan. Wild spring, in Revoltella Museum in Trieste curated by Marco Puntin and on November 2013 in Spazio Oberdan in Milano Rite, Costume and Paradox. The Journey of the Bread curated by Susanna Vallebona.