(born in Luzzara in 1943)
Delocazione, 1970, signed, dated and titled Claudio Parmiggiani 1970 on the reverse, with dedication to Emilio Mazzoli, photographic emulsion on canvas and magnolia branch installation on wood, 235 x 129.5 cm

Provenance:
Emilio Mazzoli Collection, Modena
Carlo Cattelani Collection
European Private Collection

Exhibited:
Bolzano, Circolo Artistico Culturale Diapason, Kunst und Kultur Zirkel, Alcune opere/Einige Werke von Claudio Parmiggiani, 14 October 1982, ill. on the poster

Note:
The magnolia branch is not coeval to the work. It has been replaced due to the natural process of deterioration.

“The walls themselves were the most unforgettable part, however. The tenacious life of these rooms had refused to be stamped out. It was still there, it clung onto the nails that had been left in, it stood on the hand’s breadth of floorboards that remained, it had crept in amongst what still only hinted at corners, where there was still just a little inner life. One could see in the paintwork that it had changed gradually, year on year, from blue into mildewed green, green into grey, and yellow into an old, stagnant, putrefying white. But it lived on in the fresher parts, too, that had survived behind mirrors, pictures and cupboards; it had traced and retraced their contours, and with the spiders and the dust had inhabited even those hidden places that were more exposed. It was in every tattered strip of paint, it was in the damp bubble lifting the bottom edges of the wallpaper, it swayed in the tattered shreds, and the foul patches that had formed so long ago all exuded it. And from those once blue, green, and yellow walls, framed by the trusses of the partition walls now demolished, the air of these lives, the tough, languorous air that no wind had yet dispelled, bulged out at you”.
R. M. Rilke, from the Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge