2023
Etching
Sheet/image: 77.8 x 61.5cm
Unique
Signed verso
£ 3,500.00
Run, Spindles, Draw the Thread... Unique. Hand-coloured etching without margins. As a visual artist, Pacheco was drawn to POEM 64 by Roman poet, Catullus – by its many dazzling scenes...
Run, Spindles, Draw the Thread... Unique. Hand-coloured etching without margins. As a visual artist, Pacheco was drawn to POEM 64 by Roman poet, Catullus – by its many dazzling scenes and the almost cinematic way in which time, place and mood shift, and expectations are raised and dashed. The poem touches on subjects and themes that permeate Pacheco's graphic work: the labyrinth and the Minotaur, the place of women in Greek myth and the notion of heroism. In collaboration with Robert Bush, who has recently completed a new translation of POEM 64, Pacheco is working on a new collection of paintings in tempera for an Artist’s Book in which a reproduction of each painting will be placed alongside a selected extract from the Poem in both Latin and new translation. Publication date to be announced in late 2024.