"art academies offered scholarships to Rome. The artists would stroll together among the ruins of classical antiquity and make on-site sketches of monuments and landscape views which, once rendered into full-size paintings, would be sold to admirers throughout Europe.
A few exceptions notwithstanding it was not until the 1920s ­ if at all ­ that female artists themselves began to travel. One aspect of this video work, then, is the use of quoted excerpts from travel journals to question how role models and behavioural patterns have changed over time as they apply to travel as well as the status of the female artist." Ulrike Matzer
(translation: Stephen Grynwasser)
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grand tour 1 (still) 55 min
speakers: stefanie seibold/rosa egg
kunstverein salzburg 2003
photo: andrew phelps