DESTINY CORNUCOPIA

NANCY LUPO – MONIQUE MOUTON

SEPTEMBER 2022

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Destiny Cornucopia, by Nancy Lupo and Monique Mouton. Installation views at Veda, Florence, 2022

We agreed that Destiny Cornucopia is a western or like a western. In reality it’s a boat somewhere.  I hope it doesn’t spoil things to say but it’s also maybe important because it connects us to water and so maybe also somehow to waves and the ocean and oceanic feeling.

Is there already something somewhere we could call a baroque western? Something that beholds eroticism and endlessness but is still also flinty?

I want to add that Lupo and Mouton are both from the Four Corners region of the USA and each has a father who is an identical twin. Here, the wolf and the sheep have been cohabiting.

It’s all in the spin and the shimmer.


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Siamo d’accordo che Destiny Cornucopia è un western o simile a un western. In realtà è più una barca da qualche parte. Spero che dicendolo non rovini le cose,  ma è  importante anche perché ci collega all’acqua e così, in qualche modo, forse anche alle onde, all’oceano e alla sensazione di oceano.

C’è già qualcosa, da qualche parte, che potremmo definire western barocco? Qualcosa che contempli  l’erotismo e l’infinito, ma che sia anche incerto?

Vorrei aggiungere che Lupo e Mouton provengono entrambe dalla regione dei Four Corners, Stati Uniti, e che hanno entrambe un padre gemello omozigote. Qui, il lupo e la pecora hanno convissuto.

Sta tutto nella rotazione e nel luccichio.

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Monique Mouton, Cornucopia, 2022, watercolor on paper, silk, Grey #3 on maple frame, 104 x 78 x 6,5 cm.
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Nancy Lupo, Spiral in the Mouth, 2022, disco ball motor, monofilament, latex balloons, silicone sex toys, fabric, zip ties, nail polish and glass, 60 x 35 x 10 cm.
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Destiny Cornucopia, by Nancy Lupo and Monique Mouton. Installation views at Veda, Florence, 2022
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Nancy Lupo Copper Kundalini Bell, 2022, disco ball motor, monofilament, latex balloons, copper wire, nail polish and glass , 50 x 42 x 17 cm
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Destiny Cornucopia, by Nancy Lupo and Monique Mouton. Installation views at Veda, Florence, 2022
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Nancy Lupo, A Teller of Cross Seas at Night E, 2022, Buddy Rhodes Concrete Craftsman Mix, Shellac, India Ink , 13 x 108 x 77 cm
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Monique Mouton, Formation (fragrance) , 2022 , softpastel on paper, silk, Grey #2 on maple frame, 189 x 165 x 7 cm
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Nancy Lupo, A Spiritual Leader, Was and Is also Yet To Be, 2022, black paper, graphite, colored pencil and double sided tape, 15 x 173 x 160 cm
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Destiny Cornucopia, by Nancy Lupo and Monique Mouton. Installation views at Veda, Florence, 2022
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Monique Mouton, Formation (planet), 2022, watercolor on paper, silk blend, Grey #1 on maple frame, 165 x 171,5 x 7 cm
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Nancy Lupo, A Teller of Cross Seas at Night B, 2022, Buddy Rhodes Concrete Craftsman Mix, Shellac, India Ink, 8 x 40 x 65 cm
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Nancy Lupo, The Sound of Spiraling Smoke, 2022, disco ball motor, paint, monofilament and glass, 133 x 10 x 10 cm
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Destiny Cornucopia, by Nancy Lupo and Monique Mouton. Installation views at Veda, Florence, 2022
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Monique Mouton, Formation (shimmer), 2022, watercolor on paper, silk, walnut frame, 167 x 102 x 7 cm
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Monique Mouton, Formation, 2022, watercolor, pencil on paper, silk, maple frame, 202 x 166 x 7 cm
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Nancy Lupo, A Teller of Cross Seas at Night G, 2022, Buddy Rhodes Concrete Craftsman Mix, Shellac, India Ink , 10 x 50 x 110 cm