Road to Rome

"In 1999 Father Tupa was inspired to embark on a pilgrimage which began in Milan and ended in Rome. He followed the pilgrim's traditional path through Italy, stopping at many of the ancient, sacred sites and shrines along the way to pay tribute to Christian martyrs and saints. (---) The result --a series of three hundred works in oil, watercolor, pen, ink and pencil -- shows his clear gift for artistic expression. (---) "Father Tupa's oils, watercolors and drawings in the Road to Rome series are comp0sed of individual interpretative compositions of Italian architecture and landscape. Yet they are so geographically and stylistically similar, we could view them as one work. {---} Father Tupa's style, with its consistent palette, forms and rhythms, presents us with the visual invitation to participate in his journey."

Text taken from the introduction to The Road to Rome by the exhibition curator Mark Krisco. Mark is an art curator and teacher working on numerous exhibits at the Art Institute of Chicago.