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Artworks
Liz Adamson
Assumption, Wandou (detail of triptych)digital photograph, spray paint, sticks and peasdimensions variableTitian’s 'The Assumption of the Virgin' 1515–1518 has been viewed by Adamson on four occasions, once as a travelling art student and returning many years later to visit Venice three...Titian’s 'The Assumption of the Virgin' 1515–1518 has been viewed by Adamson on four occasions, once as a travelling art student and returning many years later to visit Venice three times in the same number of years. The altar piece at Frari church struck Adamson on each viewing.
The image shows the Virgin Mary shortly after her death, as her spirit emerges from her tomb and is borne upwards towards heaven where God is waiting for her. It is charged with movement, drama and optimism.
Adamson worked directly on postcard reproductions of the alter-piece, masking the Virgin with protective fluid she sprayed the scene black. She revealed her again in various stages of emergence or submergence depending on the viewer’s reading.
Adamson had a postcard of 'The Assumption of the Virgin' on her wall at home.
It wasn’t long before a 'Wandou' web was woven around the virgin, and so it remains…
