Jonathan Monk's exhibition, "Untitled and Unfinished (Afghanistan)", continues the "Viva Roma!" project, with which British artists are invited to produce a work inspired by the city, its history, its charm and its characters. The exhibition presents the project that Monk carried out in 2004, starting from the last page of Annemarie Sauzeau's book where it is reported the last wish of the artist, was that " ... his ashes should be dispersed at the earliest opportunity over the lapislazuli waters of the lakes of Bandi A Mir: seven lakes in seven craters, high in the desert mountains in western Afghanistan". Monk would have liked to visit Bandi A Mir, to understand personally the relationship between Boetti and the landscape he loved. Advised not to make the trip in this complicated post-war period, he found someone who could go there for him from Kabul and film the lakes with a 8 mm camera following his instructions. The show includes two films of 3 minutes each looped, a series of 32 photographs, taken on the road between Kabul and Bandi A Mir, and two original prints of the photographs of the "One Hotel", opened by Boetti in Kabul at the beginning of the Seventies.

Date:

11 February - 10 March 2005

Venue:    Rome

British School at Rome, Via Gramsci 61

Information:

tel. 06 32649385