![]() We thank the American Academy in Rome for their support. Her works layer past and present, detail and overview, real and imaginary, memory and observation, in an exploration of the politics and poetics of places, to evoke the idea of a journey. Painting, drawing and printmaking are at the root of Simonetta Moro’s practice mapping is her conceptual search. This exhibition presents a selection of new works by the artist. The works are complex iterations of fabricated maps the places are hybrids, woven together from memories and imagination as the artist explores a world view of nostalgia and her concerns for the barbarity of aggression and expansion. Politically active since the 1970s with the feminist art movement, by the 1990s Joyce Kozloff addressed geopolitical issues, in public commissions and private works through books, paintings, and sculptures. Born on different continents and separated by a generation, they found a common ground as artists and as friends, and this relationship has persisted throughout the years. Mapping and friendship are the key words that define the relationship of these artists, who met at the American Academy in Rome in 1999, during their respective residencies. Mapping a Friendship: Joyce Kozloff and Simonetta Moro: Temple University Rome presented Mapping a Friendship on Tuesday May 18 at 7:00pm CET/1:00pm EST.
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