ANTONIETTA COVINO-BEEHRE

creating original artwork for commercial and domestic environments

Ricordi Souvenir

A Good Night Out

A Good Night Out II

A Room With A View

A Room With A View II

Souvenir Badger

Souvenir Badger II

Every Rose Has It's Thorn

Every Rose Has It's Thorn II

Holiday

Holiday II

I Dream of Paris

I Dream of Paris II

I Want Your Heart

I Want Your Heart I

I Want Your Heart II

I Want Your Heart III

Lost Symbol

Night Swan

Shopping

Glorious Spoons

Ted I

Ted II

Ted III

The Postcard

The Tailsman

The Young Swan

The Young Swan II

Ricordi Souvenir

Ricordi - Souvenirs introduces a series of works centering on the symbolism of the souvenir.
Guided by a iconography collected through archives and collections, I embarked upon creating a new body of work from the compilations of these ricordi-souvenirs that I had amassed. Souvenirs allow us to remember a time on many sensory levels. Triggering sensations of nostalgia, they also give sanction to visually explore and experience other sensations and emotions - new ideas and suppositions are expressed.

In a broader sense this project heralds more complexities and revelations of, and about humanity, cultural identities and the world at large becoming seamlessly borderless.
Ricordi is the Italian word which translates into the word memory, I remember, the French translation reveals its ‘a coming back to oneself’ and perhaps as artists this is what we continually do.