2008 – Luisa Rabbia

Luisa Rabbia, Travels with Isabella. Travel Scrapobooks, 1883-2008, 2008
26’30″, loop. Music: Fa Ventilato. Courtesy the artist and ISGM, Boston (MA)

During her residency at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 2007, artist Luisa Rabbia was inspired by photographs Isabella Gardner collected and pasted into elaborate travel scrapbooks while traveling in China in 1883. . . . In Travels with Isabella (2008), Rabbia takes and rearranges these archival photographs to create a video of an imaginary landscape, and a running panoramic view of her own journey through these photographs, and through space and time. The artist animates these archival photographs with her own drawings, along with music and other images inspired by her residency. The result is a fantastical narrative that is both contemporary and historical. (Pieranna Cavalchini)

*Travels With Isabella* (1), 2008. Colored pencil on acrylic on archival ink jet print, 24×72 in – 61×180 cm. Source material Gardner Museum, Boston

*Travels With Isabella* (2), 2008. Colored pencil on acrylic on archival ink jet print, 24×88 in – 61×220 cm. Source material Gardner Museum, Boston

*Travels With Isabella (3*), 2008. Colored pencil on acrylic on archival ink jet print, 24×88 in – Cm 61×220 cm.
Source material Gardner Museum, Boston

*Between Earth and Sky*, 2008. Glaze on porcelain, 256×177 in – 650×450 cm. Permanent installation, La Collina di Loredana, Pantelleria, Italy

*Untitled*, 2008. Colored pencil, on acrylic on papier-mâché
118x20x24 in – 300x50x60 cm

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