Visitors
to Barga over the years who have noticed the brightly coloured
umbrellas that are to be found all of the city have often assumed
that they were part of the traditional life in Barga along with
the stone street and green wooden shutters. They are surprised
instead to find that they are the work of one artist who has been
painting umbrellas and then "releasing" then into the
environment for over a decade..
"they are interesting
objects as their size changes along with their use, they can pass
from an almost aggressive object, a rolled up umbrella to a passive,
protecting object in a second.""they are light, cheap
and disposable and therefore to be found dumped all over the place
when broken. I wanted to bring new life into these broken discarded
objects"
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