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november 17, 2022 - Galleria d'Arte Contini
Roma Arte in Nuvola 2022
The Contini Art Gallery is pleased to announce its participation at the second edition of ROMA ARTE IN NUVOLA 2022, an international modern and contemporary art fair. We are presenting a selection of artworks by internationally renowned artists such as Manolo Valdés, Igor Mitoraj, Pablo Atchugarry, Park Eun Sun, Julio Larraz, Enzo Fiore and Mario Arlati.
The Spanish artist, Manolo Valdés, influenced by traditional Spanish painting, reinterprets characters from the history of art in canvases as well as in sculptures, creating strong relief effects with clean geometries and vivid tones. Among the artwork presented at the fair, Dama a Caballo Sobre Fondo Marrón showcases the polyphonic variety of materials transformed by Valdés' volcanic creativity. The large paintings, inspired by the Renaissance, created on jute canvas with thick layers of paint are the result of figurative and playfully visionary expressive research.
Igor Mitoraj's stylistic signature is inspired by classical iconography, introducing the concept of philosophical de-construction and deliberately breaking the ends of his sculptures as a result of the passing of time. Among his sculptures, Cacciatori di Adriano stands out, in which complementary parts of a single creation are wrapped in transparent bandages that allow the features to be perceived.
Like surreal worlds, open windows suddenly materialise on the pure surface of the bodies. Mitoraj does not glorify the culture of the body, nor athletic physicality; rather, he tells a simple idealism, linked to matter and the passage of time.
Purely sculptural is also the work of the Korean artist Park Eun Sun. The twisted columns and spherical forms of his 'Infinite Columns' achieve refined balances by fusing in their essence the Oriental culture of origin and the Western culture of the artist's adoption.
His sculptures, characterised by precise geometric shapes, skilfully moulded and polished but crossed by cracks, do not symbolise painful lacerations, but rather a regenerative act that lets the deepest part of the material emerge.
In Julio Larraz's pictorial universe, the desecrating tendency of power is mixed with the full and intense colours of Caribbean and South American landscapes. The pungent irony present in the artwork Malacara, a Man Called the Pharaoh stages a penetrating pictorial allegory, an ambiguous, decadent, grotesque portrait, becoming the emblem of a degraded humanity obsessed by the will to dominate.
On the other hand, the artworks of Uruguayan artist Pablo Atchugarry are characterised by the sinuous and abstract manufacture of bronzes shaped into fluid and ascending forms, capable of generating a dreamlike and engaging beauty.
The sculpture Figura Femminina, created by the artist's skilful dexterity, gives life to intertwined lines that flow into the creation of an enveloping volume and passionate colour.
Finally, in the proposal of Italian artists, the Milanese Mario Arlati and Enzo Fiore stand out. They both share a preference for using different materials in their creative process, which they skilfully transform into artwork with marked materiality.
Flags made of rags, cloth stained with colour, twisted, soaked in the matter, knotted. Mario Arlati's 'Incomplete Flags' are born from the 'virtuous recycling' of used materials. From the recovery of these materials reassembled as best they can, incomplete flags emerge, emblems of national identities that are not ideal but real, always 'work in progress', imperfect.
Finally, roots, moss, twigs, leaves, earth, stones and even insects are Enzo Fiore's artwork's dominant and indispensable elements. Especially in the 'Appropriations' series, the artist uses his earthy, organic palette to reinterpret paintings of the past, from portraits of the great court painters of the 17th century to the landscapes of Claude Lorrain. These artworks represent the expressive power of contemporary art, its constant tension and propensity towards a continuous search for new materials, expressions, and dialogues.
In this edition of Roma Arte in Nuvola, the Contini Art Gallery has been invited to participate in the special projects section, where it will present two artworks by Pablo Atchugarry and Lorenzo Quinn.
The Uruguayan artist's monumental stainless steel sculpture entitled Search for the future can be considered a piece of exceptional production, whose lines seem to hover upwards in liquid form, questioning the future, space and time in which it exists.
Atchugarry's path is aimed at knowledge and the construction of a possible image of the world and his sculptures are mysterious signs that preserve their secrets, pointing to a place full of hidden truths.
His artworks have the indeterminacy of dreams, they belong to a realm poised between dream and reality, projected vertically and metaphorically into the future.
The figurative sculpture Roma is a tribute to the eternal city that gave birth to Lorenzo Quinn.
Through this work in polished bronze, an expressive human body reconstruction, the Italian-American artist testifies to the profound bond "at a molecular level" with the Italian city.
According to Quinn, art is a portal for communication and a vehicle for our emotions and values, and the human figure is the most immediate form that exists to make contact and establish a close relationship with the observer.
La Galleria d'Arte Contini alla fiera Roma Arte in Nuvola
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Roma Arte in Nuvola, Lorenzo Quinn, Roma, 2022, pezzo unico, bronzo lucido, cm 207, 5 x 350 x 80
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Roma Arte in Nuvola, Pablo Atchugarry, Search of the Future, 2018, pezzo unico, acciaio inox lucidato,cm 500x220
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Stand della Galleria d'Arte Contini alla fiera Roma Arte in Nuvola, opera di Enzo Fiore
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Stand della Galleria d'Arte Contini alla fiera Roma Arte in Nuvola, opera di Igor Mitoraj
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Stand della Galleria d'Arte Contini alla fiera Roma Arte in Nuvola, opere di Igor Mitoraj
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Stand della Galleria d'Arte Contini alla fiera Roma Arte in Nuvola, opere di Julio Larraz e Pablo Atchugarry
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Stand della Galleria d'Arte Contini alla fiera Roma Arte in Nuvola, opere di Manolo Valdés
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Stand della Galleria d'Arte Contini alla fiera Roma Arte in Nuvola, opere di Mario Arlati
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Stand della Galleria d'Arte Contini alla fiera Roma Arte in Nuvola, opere di Pablo Atchugarry e Julio Larraz
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Stand della Galleria d'Arte Contini alla fiera Roma Arte in Nuvola, opere di Pablo Atchugarry
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Stand della Galleria d'Arte Contini alla fiera Roma Arte in Nuvola, opere di Park Eun Sun e Carla Tolomeo
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Stand della Galleria d'Arte Contini alla fiera Roma Arte in Nuvola
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