This piece is part of Zilda's great series 'Io sono una forza del passato' ('I am a force of the past'), which places hand painted figures from classic Italian movies in Rome. The figure is Pier Paolo Pasolini, a celebrated director, and author of the poem which gives this project its title.
This is the last piece Zilda will be pasting before he takes a break from the project; he aims to complete it over three years, and will pick it up again next spring.
French artist Zilda's wonderful project, 'Io sono una forza del passato' ('I am a force of the past'), places figures from classic Roman cinema of the '50s & '60s in rome. as movie characters they are part of romans' collective history; through Zilda's work they are brought into modern life.
The characters are all hand-painted, and then located carefully: "it is essential to know the social and architectural stratification of a city, to get familiar with its streets, its quarters and to view that urban setting as a constraint that stimulates the staging of my ideas. “Spotting the city” amounts to approaching it like an open-air museum where each wall constitutes a hypothetic painting, a backdrop already developing its own aesthetics and organization of colors and materials.".
Zilda then takes photos of each piece, using the photos as a 'fixer', "immortalizing a set of works doomed to disappear, while they still make sense."
