City sightseeing

Another painting from my show "urban incoceivable".

This droll and self-effacing humor which comes from being a contemporary in a city so strongly associated with its glorious past, is quite apparent in this painting of “Ponte Santa Trinita in Florence”
We are attempting to look at the elegant scenery which has long delighted visitors and natives alike. We are trying to behold the bucolic vision of the historic center of Florence beyond a bridge designed by a great renaissance master… but the geometric assemblage of golden ochres and terra cottas nestled above the Arno, presided over by the proud and majestic presence of the Palazzo Vecchio, is irreverently slashed by an awful cacophony of a tacky moving billboard ! Replete with the ubiquitous image of David ( pilfered yet once again for Florentine branding, as if we still didn’t know…) a tourist bus goes crashing through the sacred scene. Adding insult to injury, in neat Renaissance perspective, is a topping of gaudy plastic garbage dumpsters and jarring white street markings, all that one could hope for in such an elegant setting!