Installations
Installations often integrate non-art elements
as well. Boccaccio's installations combine several different types of media and
materials into room sized environments. Each environment surrounds the viewer,
who walks into what appears to be a huge, three dimensional painting.
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La Jaula (The Cage) 9' X 9' X 12' |
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This "room" is called "La Jaula," a title that
functions eloquently. The stream of numbers that line the room is a
transcription of her sister's obsessive lists.. By employing them so
prominently, Boccaccio creates both a homage to Catherine and a
three-dimensional version of the mental cage she continuously creates for
herself. For the artist, this installation is also a constructive cage:
It allows her to wall off the relationship with Catherine, which she
characterizes as nightmarish. |
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| Dante's Global Game
(Front View) 6' X 9' X 9' |
Dante's Global Game
(Rear View) 6' X 9' X 9' |
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Angels, of human proportions, stand at the far end of
the David Zapf Gallery in Middletown. There are nine of them and they
have skin of cracked glass, just like the checkerboard below them. Along
the border of the board are a few choice lines from Dante's "The Divine
Comedy." However, the out come of this "game" looks anything but divine -
or sublimely an irony that Poupee Boccaccio has embedded in this
installation. |
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