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- Artists
- Pivi, Paola
 - Edition Details
| Year: | 2003 | | Class: | Original Art | | Status: | Official | | Run: | 1 | | Technique: | Digital | | Paper: | PVC | | Size: | 484 X 402 |
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Photographic mural first featured at the 2003 Venice Biennale in Italy. The mural was created using ink jet on PVC, and is 33 feet, 6 inches by 40 feet, 4 inches.
In 2004 it was installed on the campus of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island by the University’s Public Art Committee as part of its Art on Campus program. The work was on loan from the artist, courtesy of Galerie Massimo de Carlo in Milan, Italy. It covered a three-floor segment on the Thayer Street side of the Brown University's Sciences Library. Workers attached a metal armature to the building, then stretched the mural across the armature, which held it in place. The installation took several days.
Born in Milan in 1971, Paola Pivi studied nuclear engineering before turning to art and attending the Academia di Breara. Her work has been shown widely throughout Europe and Asia. Her work has been featured in both the 2003 and 2001 Venice Biennale, where she was awarded the Prize d’Oro. "Donkey” is one of a series of whimsical images by the artist in which animals show up in unexpected places – such as zebras on a snowy mountainside and ostriches in the ocean.
Pivi prefers traditional photography to computer-generated imagery, and she stages each photograph like a performance, transporting the animals to remote locations and enacting her events. The resulting images are enigmatic, patently absurd and humorous. When displayed in public spaces, her images surprise and amuse viewers, lifting them briefly from their ordinary routine.
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