Artist
Kristin Jones
Composers
Walter Branchi, Eugenio Giordani, David Monacchi
TRILOGY: The She-Wolf as Shape of Time is a work in three parts by Kristin Jones that explores the image of the She-Wolf: symbol of the City of Rome and icon of its legendary origins.
TRILOGY presents the evolving image of the She-Wolf over 2,500 years of visual history. The project opened with an exhibition at the Capitoline Museum of twelve She-Wolf prints and an evening of projected animations, accompanied by an installation on the Tiber River. The project blends past with present and legend with legacy, bringing the mythical creature to life.
EXHIBITION
She Wolf as Shape of Time is a series of twelve exquisitely detailed letterpress prints, marking the transformative visual and narrative evolution of the fabled She-Wolf figure across history.
The She-Wolves depicted in the exhibition were initially conceived as a filmic metamorphosis of the icon through time, to be projected on the walls of the Tiber. Kristin Jones worked closely with archaeologist and historian Claudio Parisi Presicce, Director of the Capitoline Museum, who generously offered access to an archive of more than three hundred She-Wolf images. Eighty figures were selected and transcribed under Presicce’s guidance. Jones worked together with Roman illustrator Francesca Fini to produce vectorial renderings of the historical images in classic Etruscan black figure style, printed in collaboration with Peter Kruty Editions (Brooklyn, New York).
The prints were shown in the Sala della Lupa at the Capitoline Museum, where the iconic bronze she-wolf sculpture has been on view for centuries.
ANIMATIONS
In the Piazza del Campidoglio, on Rome’s mythological birthday, five luminous She-Wolves were projected onto the facade of the Palazzo dei Conservatori, inviting the public to the exhibition She Wolf as Shape of Time within the Capitoline Museum. The projections were accompanied by original sound works, which filled the piazza.
Wild Graces was a project researched and conceptualized by Kristin Jones for the 2006 program on the Tiber. The work brought her She-Wolf drawings to life through hand-drawn animations done by Jee Hyun Joo and Ji Hyun Song. The animations were projected onto Michelangelo’s facade in celebration of Rome’s April 21st birthday, accompanied by musical compositions Non Spazio, Non Tempo by Eugenio Giordani and Glissandi e Invarianti by David Monacchi.
Intermezzo, a new work created for the opening by special guests Daniel K. Brown and Erika Kruger, animated by Johann Nortje and James Shaw, showed the She-Wolf transforming from day to night, simultaneously engaging light and shadow cast by the eclipsing moon and the rising sun. The She-Wolf cast her silhouette upon the site as the scene synchronized with Walter Branchi’s composition Aria Selene coeli-rosa, a fragment from his life work Intero.
INSTALLATION
Wolflight was a silver frieze of detailed She-Wolf silhouettes, which crossed Ponte Sisto into Trastevere, with a procession of iconic figures along the bridge. The fluid progression echoed the flow of traffic, people and river. The work featured a selection of over forty She-Wolves from the icon’s enduring presence in the history of the Eternal City, and drew upon the mythology of Rome’s dawning on the banks of the Tiber.
Eugenio Giordani: Non Spazio, Non Tempo
David Monacchi: Glissandi e Invarianti
Walter Branchi: Aria Selene coeli-rosa
Artist
Kristin Jones
Illustrations
Francesca Fini
Composers
Walter Branchi, Eugenio Giordani, David Monacchi
Animations
Jee Hyun Yoo and Ji Hyun Song, Daniel K. Brown and Erika Kruger
Historic consultant
Claudio Parisi Presicce
Curator
Gaia Cianfanelli
Studio Director
Diane Roehm
Artistic collaboration
Diane Roehm, Daniel K. Brown and Erika Kruger
Engraver
James Farias
Graphic Design
Andrea Biagioni and Erika Kruger
Technical direction
Step srl
CAD Renderings
Jonathan Meister
Assistants
James Farias, Kat McDermott, Chris Smulka and Patrick Konopka
With the support of
The Embassy of the United States in Rome
The David Bermant Foundation: Color, Light, Motion
The Candy Jernigan Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
In collaboration with
Associazione Tevereterno onlus and Fondazione Volume!
And the participation of
Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
Pugsley Fund
HRK Foundation
Fleming Charitable Trust
