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Ceiling 100
Two mirrors
Weeping eye
Seats
turning them
Imago
Combat of gladiators
Berlin Wall with German Grass and Skies II
Root room
Self-portrait of Frans Floris and William Key with Tito, Caio and Vitellius
Ceiling 100
Two mirrors
Weeping eye
Seats
turning them
Imago
Combat of gladiators
Berlin Wall with German Grass and Skies II
Root room
Self-portrait of Frans Floris and William Key with Tito, Caio and Vitellius

Weeping eye

Anne Poirier; Patrick Poirier

Displayed in:

Butera Palace

Butera Palace

Via Butera, 18, Palermo

Open now from 10:00 to 20:00

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A bronze eye that supports itself on its own tear: from the center of the pupil the fluid descends to the floor where it forms a support base. In the root room of Palazzo Butera, this work almost seems to radiate the majolica-clad canal where the Jacaranda root has been inserted. During their artistic career, Anne and Patrick Poirier have developed a poetics based on the fragility of human memory. Celebrated by recent retrospectives (Paris, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, 2017; Rome, Villa Medici, 2018), the Poirier path crossed archeology and Renaissance gardens. The possible destruction of civilizations, due to wars, has become a fixed point of their gaze. And the weeping eye is the place where time is imprinted and becomes memory.
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Title: Weeping eye

Author: Anne Poirier; Patrick Poirier

Date: 1988 - 89

Technique: Bronze

Displayed in: Butera Palace

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