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Confined inside an 800-year-old Italian palace, 3 artists share their experience of solitude and financial struggle in lockdown

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The pandemic has wrought a large financial toll, and an art curator says the effect on travel could have major long-term implications for the ways he does his job.Just like the rest of us, the Danish artist Leonardo Anker Vandal has had to deal with a shortage of items under lockdown. For him, that meant no new brushes and a dearth of paints for the past two months, resulting in his "using trash" to make art for income.

Vandal and Kobayashi often met in the palace's inner courtyard to enjoy the warm Italian sunshine. Physical space makes a difference to their artwork. "They've probably lost family members and have two to three jobs that they've lost and it's totally affecting their practice," Monti says. "Galleries can't give out money or neither have they received money, so it's causing a big issue," he says. "I don't have any other income other than the paintings. It's very scary."The artist Leonardo Vandal at work in Palazzo Monti."Unless you're really established, like a Banksy, you won't receive help," he says. "Which is really ironic. That's frightening to me.

 

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