OZMO live painting at King's College London - the Workshop of the Icons

This short film by Frankie Caradonna records a ten-day live painting by OZMO as part of the "Workshop of Icons”, curated by Cristina Boschetti, James Cahill and Will Wootton. It took place at the invitation of the Classics Department of King's College London, King's Culture and the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.
The Italian artist OZMO is well known on the international scene for his numerous public art interventions. For ten days the artist worked in a temporary studio set up in the Arcade Gallery of Bush House, overlooking the Strand. Passing members of the public contributed images which, day by day, were mixed with those selected from the archive of eminent British archaeologist and art historian Bernard Ashmole (1894-1988) and now owned by King's College London.
The result is a monumental pyramidal pictorial composition "Peace in Pieces", which evokes an imaginative Greek temple pediment. The center of the composition is dominated by Eirene, the Greek goddess of peace, who has her back to the viewer, while she converses with the icons of classical art and with the symbols of the present time. The image celebrates the political value of classical art, born for the city and to communicate with the community.
“Peace in Pieces” was created during April and then exhibited in the window of the King's Strand Shop (171 Strand) until June 2023.