Installation View, Northeast Corner
Sculpture & Memory: Works from the Gardner and by Luigi Ontani
February 9 – May 6, 2007

Corner to the left:
Salomè-Salamè, Luigi Ontani, 2002

Wall to the right:
En Route vèrs l'Inde, Luigi Ontani
Clockwise from the top:
    MadeUSA, 1994
   ShivAshirvad, 1976 (Jaipur)
   Flagellando Guercino, 1975 ( Madras)
   Salam Calcutta, 2000
   San Luca (d’après Guercino), 1975 ( Madras)
   FauNixe (d’après Stuck), 1996 ( Delhi)
Center:
   San Sebastiano Indiano, 1976 (Jaipur)

This cycle of watercolored photographs is rooted in on of Ontani’s first trips to India. The title refers to Ontani’s favorite chapter of the Indian journal of French writer Pier Loti. As is usually the case, the artist appears as mythological or religious characters derived from Western art or from Hellenistic and Indian themes.

Photo: Clements/Howcroft Boston