(EN) Grand Tour is a body of work composed of site- or context-specific installations and small- to medium-scale paintings, inspired by the educational journeys across Italy undertaken in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Here, travel becomes the central act — a movement through Italy’s major art cities, layered with history and memory. Along this ongoing itinerary, the artist collects postcards, museum imagery, personal photographs, and fragments of the local landscape such as stones and minerals — for example, volcanic rock from Mount Etna or sandstone from the Val di Noto — which are ground into natural pigments.
These visual fragments are then pinned to supports and layered with hand-painted acetates, all enclosed in passe-partouts that reference Renaissance and Baroque ornamental motifs. The resulting works resemble delicate, unsettled miniatures — provisional compositions that evoke rather than depict, bearing the weight of cultural memory and the fragility of the present. They become visual notes that ask: where does the journey end, and memory begin?