Kandyskin II (His Clemency)
Title
Kandyskin II (His Clemency)
Subject
Italy -- Emigration and immigration -- Italian-American art -- United States -- Art history -- 20th century
Description
II. HIS CLEMENCY
El Greco's Cardinal de Guevara and a close up of Cicciolina sandwich in a text dense with quotations. The role of Clement Greenberg as critic-champion and charismatic megaphone of American abstract expressionism is recalled, as is the face of Helen "that launched a thousand ships and burnt the topless towers of Ilium".
His Clemency hissed hot breath
on his cold greenstonenamourald fingars,
reached for his charismatic megaphonee end begun:
"Is this the face that launched [lunched] a thousand ship
and burnt the topless bars [bras] of ille-illa-illum?
Tobecontinued.
(transcription of the text in the painting)
El Greco's Cardinal de Guevara and a close up of Cicciolina sandwich in a text dense with quotations. The role of Clement Greenberg as critic-champion and charismatic megaphone of American abstract expressionism is recalled, as is the face of Helen "that launched a thousand ships and burnt the topless towers of Ilium".
His Clemency hissed hot breath
on his cold greenstonenamourald fingars,
reached for his charismatic megaphonee end begun:
"Is this the face that launched [lunched] a thousand ship
and burnt the topless bars [bras] of ille-illa-illum?
Tobecontinued.
(transcription of the text in the painting)
Creator
Tom DiSalvo
Source
https://theexhibit.io/exhibition/al-di-la-delle-retibeyond-the-nets-the-art-of-tom-disalvo/artwork/kandyskin-ii-his-clemency
Date
1988
Contributor
Federico Tiberini, Domenica Diraviam, Viviana Pezzullo
Format
Oil on linen
Type
Painting
Coverage
US
Physical Dimensions
122 x 152 cm
Collection
Citation
Tom DiSalvo, “Kandyskin II (His Clemency),” Italian-American Memories: Documentary Archive, accessed April 26, 2024, https://itamm.omeka.net/items/show/344.