Paola Pivi (b. 1971)
Mama no more diapers please, 2014
Urethane foam, metal, plastic and feathers
Museum signage:
"Animals are often cast as protagonists in Italian artist Paola Pivi’s work. By staging animal subjects in strange or unexpected environments and often anthropomorphizing them, Pivi prompts reflection on human behavior and relationships to the natural world. In Pivi’s art, polar bears practice yoga, hang from trapezes, and goof around."
Gallery sign:
"Art of the NORTH
For centuries, the North has been idealized and romanticized as a place of myth, a wilderness and a frontier, where nature is more visible, beautiful and remote.
Yet the landscape of the North is entwined with cultural identity, history, memory, spirituality, and diverse human interaction—a complex environment rich with layers of local and Indigenous knowledge.
Art has reflected both these inside and outside views.
As the frontier ideal encounters global awareness and a rapidly-changing environment, the landscape of the North is connected, pivotal, and conflicted, both romantic and real.
Representations of the North depict awe-inspiring views and everyday life, pose questions about contemporary issues, and imagine what the future landscape might look like.
The art of the North is the art of place, revealing many points of view. "
Anchorage Museum, Anchorage Alaska
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