Lucia Pescador

Lucia Pescador (b. 1943, Voghera, Italy) graduated in Decoration under Giovanni Usellini at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan and began her artistic career around the 1960s. From 1977 to 1989, Pescador was part of the Metamorfosi group with Alessandra Bonelli, Lucia Sterlocchi and Gabriella Benedini, exhibiting together for the first time in 1977 at the exhibition Dalla natura alla ragione at Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara, with an introduction by Anty Pansera.

Starting in the early 1990s, the artist began a large cycle of works within which her current production should also be read: Inventario di fine secolo con la mano sinistra, in which the artist copies fragments of 20th-century art, organising them by titles: Art, Artifice, Nature, Hotel du Nord, Puzzle, Geometry, Decoration. The use of the left hand (despite not being left-handed) enhances the expressive and interpretative aspect and lends itself well to evoking the process of deconstruction of academic representation that took place during the 20th century. Her interest in culture and memory can be traced back to a postmodern attitude, albeit in a poetic key that always favours drawing.