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‘Torre Littoria w/ Barge Field: Potensne me audio’
Turin, Italy: In 2021, Canadian artist Christopher Webb took top honours in the Quasi Quadro International Contemporary Art Competition by winning the Residency Award. This made him not only the first North American artist selected to win this award, which began in 2018, but also the first painter to claim the prize. Along with collaborating with Associazione Quasi Quadra in Torino, Webb also took part in a week-long residency in the town of Barge located one hour south west of Turin, where he developed work that combined both painting and sound.
“What appears at first as something beautiful is in fact hiding an ugly truth." ~ C.Webb
'Torre Littoria with Barge Field: Potensne Me Audire' - oil on board, paper | 72cm diameter | 2021 (photo by Danilo Marcuzzo)
‘Potensne me audire’
Written & Directed by CHRISTOPHER WEBB | Voices ANDREA PRIMIANI, MAURO MARCONETTO, PAOLO RE, MAURO PRIOTTO, FRANCO MAGNANO, MARIO BORGO, EGIDIO DIANTI, GIAMPAOLO BONANSEA | Volunteer Coordinator/Assistance TONINA ROBERTI | Recorded at San Pietro in Vincoli, Barge (CN) - Italy - 9 November 2021
Exhibition installation images
Watercolour Studies
All images are titled, ‘Grattacielo Reale Mutua - Study 1 - 9’’ | watercolour on archival paper | 8cm diameter | 2021
Documentation of Residency
