Walton Ford: Calafia Dino Buzzati Enrico Castellani

Enrico Castellani

which opened in February 2019 at the Musée Yves Saint Laurent

The publication features an essay by curator David Anfam

Beginning with the first Spot painting created in 1986

lined with photosensitive paper

Walton Ford: Calafia Dino Buzzati Enrico CastellaniThis book was published on the occasion of Walton Ford: Calafia at Gagosian, Beverly Hills, the artists first exhibition with the gallery. It features six new watercolor paintings from the Calafia series, in which Ford depicts California through an amalgam of its myths, legends, and folklore. When the Spanish sailed up the western coast of North America, they named the land after the imaginary island, ruled by a warrior queen named Calafia, they had