Capital with Man Fighting a Lion (recto); Man Riding a Griffin (verso)
Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Catalogue
- Year
- 1175
- Medium
- Marble
- Dimensions
- 23.5 × 44.5 × 17.8 cm (9 1/4 × 17 1/2 × 7 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Mark Lombardi
Artist
Drawing
Mark Lombardi was an American artist who created large-scale drawings mapping complex financial and political networks through meticulously researched, interconnected lines and notations. Working primarily in graphite and ink, he visualized hidden systems of corruption, fraud, and corporate malfeasance by charting relationships between banks, politicians, and shell companies across decades. His densely layered compositions functioned as both visual investigations and sculptural objects, demanding sustained attention to their architectural complexity. Lombardi's practice anticipated contemporary interest in data visualization and systemic transparency before his death in 2000.
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Trafalgar House Comentation - Armscor and the Malaysia Dam Project c. 1980-95 London - Johannesburg - Kuala Lumpur
2000 · Pencil on notebook paper
Industries Carlos Cardoen of Santiago, Chile c. 1982-90 (2nd Version)
2000 · Pencil on paper
Astra - Bmarc - Unwin, London c. 1983-90, 'dealers in military pyrotechnics'
2000 · Pencil on notebook paper
Gerry Bull, Space Research Corporation and Armscor of Pretoria, South Africa, c. 1972–80 (5th Version)
1999 · Pencil and colored pencil on paper
Banco Nazionale del Lavoro, Reagan, Bush, Thatcher, and the Arming of Iraq, c. 1979-1990 (4th version)
1998 · Colored pencil and pencil on paper
Phil Schwab, CB Financial and Eureka Federal Savings c. 1981-6
1997 · Pencil on notebook paper
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- Mark Lombardi
- Year
- 1175
- Medium
- Marble
- Dimensions
- 23.5 × 44.5 × 17.8 cm (9 1/4 × 17 1/2 × 7 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1175-006986
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- Status
- verified