The artist Tony Phillips from Filecchio, who has featured on barganews many times over the years opened up his exhibition of latest work to the public in the Museum of Memory in Barga Vecchia this afternoon.
Tony for most of his working life has been working on a series of drawings and paintings all carrying the same title or banner – The Guide to the 20th Century. These new drawings use semi religious symbols and metaphors in an attempt to make us look back at our selves as historical animals and belonging to a different age. A series of shrine like images featuring what could be called “gods of electricity or of the nuclear age”. Also included in this exhibition a series of large finely detailed panoramic landscapes and smaller views of Barga.
Click on the link below to hear the short interview (in English) with Tony as he tells us some of the background behind the making of these images.
They just don’t get any better than this. Imaginative, acute, intellectually challenging. The history of London in 11 etchings is stunning. Among the larger canvases, you could study his Underground slices-of-life for weeks and still notice something new every day. Bravo Tony.