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The art exhibition opened on November 20th 2005 in Udine, Palazzo Torso, with the introduction by Vittorio Sgarbi.
24 works of art (format going from cm 80x120 to cm 110x165) 30 co-protagonist housewives (who represent the 3000 women, aged from 21 to 64, who showed up at the castings for this big event from all over Italy, but also from Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and Spain).
Author: Gianfranco Angelico Benvenuto 
Exhibitions:
• 16 > 19 March - London (La Dolce Vita, Grand Hall Olympia Exhibition Centre) • 21 > 23 April - Palermo (MediArte, Fiera Palermo) • 25 April - Luxembourg • 15 May - Hamburg • 21 > 23 May - Naples (Fiera d’oltremare) • End of May - Milan (Miniaci Art Gallery) • June and August - Positano (Miniaci Art Gallery) • End of August - Budapest • 16 October - Munich • 18 October -Vienna • 21 October - Abano Terme • End of October - Venice (Miniaci Art Gallery) • November - Hong Kong (Miniaci Art Gallery) • 11 > 13 November - Merano /BZ • January 2007 – New York (Miniaci Art Gallery) |
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Dialogue with Velázquez.
Isabel Would Rather Live. The menina doña Isabel de Velasco, who in real life, three years after the painting of this image, to observe the Court protocol at the marriage of the infanta Margarita caught pneumonia and died shortly after, now would rather live. Having left on the scene her starched regal clothes, Monica uses a cloth and with a solvent erases herself from the painting? changing her destiny. 2000 Photograph (Lambda Print) mounted on aluminium multilayer cm 120 x 92 cm 143 x 110                          |
