The Art of Mark Lombardi
Today is Friday, 2 June 2006.
One of the most significant and least-known American artists of the later 20th century is Mark Lombardi (1951-2000). A native of upstate New York, Lombardi became fascinated by the nexus between financial, criminal, and government scandals during the Watergate Era, and began compiling a vast informational archive on three-by-five index cards. Trained in art history at Syracuse University, he hit upon the idea of representing the connections revealed by his archive as diagrams on paper. The results are intellectually compelling and visually entrancing.
A good place to begin is www.pierogi2000.com/flatfile/lombardi.html. (Pierogi2000 is an artist-run gallery in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, an area which has become a thriving beehive of artistic creativity.) Representative works of various artists are depicted in the flatfile.
One may also Google “Mark Lombardi” for more. Your author highly recommends Mark Lombardi: Global Networks (Independent Curators International; New York, 2003). So far as I know, this is the only book of his art.
Representative Lombardi works include:
Meyer Lansky’s Financial Network (1996)
[Lansky was the long-time financial genius of the Mafia; perfected money-laundering]
Inner Sanctum: The Pope and His Bankers Michele Sindona and Robero Calvi, ca. 1959-82 (1998)
Oliver North, Lake Resources of Panama, and the Iran-Contra Operation, ca. 1984-86 (1999)
George Bush and Palmer National Bank of Washington, ca. 1983-86 (1999)
[Palmer was a bank founded by a Mafia-linked Louisiana businessman and a Bush 1980 campaign staffer; North used it to channel money and arms to the Contras through a shell foundation]
Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, Reagan, Bush, & Thatcher and the Arming of Iraq, ca. 1983-91 (1995)
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BONUS QUOTE
"I'm as anti 'the system' as you could possibly be. We've got two options --- the vote or hostile takeover. I'm down with either one." --- Ice-T
One of the most significant and least-known American artists of the later 20th century is Mark Lombardi (1951-2000). A native of upstate New York, Lombardi became fascinated by the nexus between financial, criminal, and government scandals during the Watergate Era, and began compiling a vast informational archive on three-by-five index cards. Trained in art history at Syracuse University, he hit upon the idea of representing the connections revealed by his archive as diagrams on paper. The results are intellectually compelling and visually entrancing.
A good place to begin is www.pierogi2000.com/flatfile/lombardi.html. (Pierogi2000 is an artist-run gallery in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, an area which has become a thriving beehive of artistic creativity.) Representative works of various artists are depicted in the flatfile.
One may also Google “Mark Lombardi” for more. Your author highly recommends Mark Lombardi: Global Networks (Independent Curators International; New York, 2003). So far as I know, this is the only book of his art.
Representative Lombardi works include:
Meyer Lansky’s Financial Network (1996)
[Lansky was the long-time financial genius of the Mafia; perfected money-laundering]
Inner Sanctum: The Pope and His Bankers Michele Sindona and Robero Calvi, ca. 1959-82 (1998)
Oliver North, Lake Resources of Panama, and the Iran-Contra Operation, ca. 1984-86 (1999)
George Bush and Palmer National Bank of Washington, ca. 1983-86 (1999)
[Palmer was a bank founded by a Mafia-linked Louisiana businessman and a Bush 1980 campaign staffer; North used it to channel money and arms to the Contras through a shell foundation]
Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, Reagan, Bush, & Thatcher and the Arming of Iraq, ca. 1983-91 (1995)
__________________________
BONUS QUOTE
"I'm as anti 'the system' as you could possibly be. We've got two options --- the vote or hostile takeover. I'm down with either one." --- Ice-T
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