Valerio Ambiveri



The Painter's Demons


 

Albrecht Dürer, St Jerome in Penitence, 1496
Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Dürer

In 1987 I made a burin slab for fun, as if it were a finding of a detail in the engraving of San Girolamo discarded by Dürer and donated to one of his Italian contemporaries who wrote the following statement on a 'cartouche' slab:

"What Durero told me to prefer for San Girolamo but, for a reason that was unknown to me, he did not use"


The Painter's Demons. "Dürer 1"
videoHD, color, sound, 5’40”, 2018