Campo di Marte II

The new edition of Campo di Marte by Nathalie Du Pasquier is enriched with sixteen additional compositions, expanding and complementing the original selection of the first edition. Campo di Marte was devised in March 2020, at a time when Nathalie Du Pasquier was not painting. After cutting out photos of paintings produced between the 1980s and 2020, the French artist then placed them in a sequence as if they were a series of typefaces, focusing solely on their formal qualities and the scope for interpretation offered by their assembly. What comes out is an enchanting game of nonsense, an everyday surrealism in which the images make up sentences of sorts, interwoven with various elements taken from the world of books: titles, poems or mere calculations – times when the artist was lost for words. Campo di Marte was published on the occasion of the same-named exhibition, curated by Luca Lo Pinto, held at the MACRO in Rome in 2021.