Design lovers should also cross over Piazza San Babila — at the southern end of Via Montenapoleone — to Corso Monforte, Via Durini and the
surrounding streets which are overflowing with showrooms selling fabulously designed chairs,
lamps and vases.
In her studio, Williams transforms these images into painted nightscapes illuminated with the unusual glow of
street lamps, house lights and strings of holiday bulbs, all casting their glow onto
surrounding objects.
More recent explorations of the absurdist nature of the movement are found in Kate Glimore's video, Sudden as a Massacre, in which a group of women dressed in heels and floral print dresses strenuously pull apart a large block of wet clay, hurling handfuls of it at the
surrounding environment, and in Iran do Espírito Santo's
Street Pole, a life - size recreation of a common street lamp, made of solid granite, rendering it useless for its original pu
Street Pole, a life - size recreation of a common
street lamp, made of solid granite, rendering it useless for its original pu
street lamp, made of solid granite, rendering it useless for its original purpose.
Set in a quiet Devonshire valley and
surrounded by rolling countryside with no
street lamps in sight, the sky lights up on clear nights revealing a canopy of twinkling stars.