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23/9/2014

Natalie Silva and Barbara Nicoli

Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong

29 Arts In Progress and Identity Art Gallery unveil “Nature, Interrupted”, a showcase of two unique Contemporary Artists

July 2014 - 29 Arts In Progress, London collaborates with Identity Art Gallery, Hong Kong to present “Nature, Interrupted”, a joint exhibition featuring paintings by two Italian artists Natalie Silva and Barbara Nicoli. Fusing Nicoli’s hyper realistic details of nature with Natalie’s dance’s like impressions, "Nature, Interrupted" pairs together two artists who are equally keen on holding intense dialogues with nature. They freeze it on their canvasses, mimic it, meddle with it and give it new life to find poetry from the depth of its complexity – and simplicity.

Natalie Silva likes to explore and document human’s interactions with nature, especially light and its infinite colours. She places people in an indistinct space and explores how the reciprocal action becomes part of the projection of our memories. As she reproduces these memories on her canvasses, nature takes on a different reality, it becomes art, where perspectives get thrown out of the window, and shadow is no longer a darker shade; it is a different colour.

A graduate of Luigi Bocconi University, German-born Natalie held her first solo exhibition at the Mudima Gallery in Milan in 2001. Since then, she has exhibited all over the world from Switzerland and Slovenia to London, Paris and Los Angeles. Silva currently lives between Italy, Paris and Los Angeles.

Barbara Nicoli is also concerned with the human's interaction with nature, and in particular in the delicate balance between human and nature coexistence, ruled by each side's ultimate quest for survival. Employing innovative use of techniques, materials and unpublished methods - such as the intaglio printing technique - Barbara makes visible the rhythm of the wind, even the sounds it makes blowing through the leaves as she juggles traditions and innovations.

Re-producing fragments of nature around her,Barbara, currently based in the Emilian countryside creates representations of the human language, where a system of signs and sounds integrate to form the world and its many complexities.

“In-Natural” - Natalie Silva
Natalie Silva explores the visible world, in a specific research that tends to focus on inserting the human element into an indistinct -willingly so- space; in order to read from one time to the another, volumes and forms that become projections of our memories.

The artistic research of Natalie Silva refers to the type of relationship between nature and its representation: “in-natural” because it is referred to nature, investigating its processes, its mechanisms. Reproducing them in painting, transforming them into something other then the natural element.This is how another reality is created, the reality of painting, the reality of art in general; a re-created reality “in-natural”.That’s why Natalie’s colors can be “in-naturally” yellow, purple, green or orange, that’s how these bodies assume in-natural colors (blue and purple, blue and green, blue and yellow, green and orange, creating what is called in optical physics simultaneous contrasts - since impressionism - exalting in the viewer the intrinsic luminosity of the painting.

A Natural “New Ink” - Barbara Nicoli
Barbara Nicoli develops a research centered on the theme of nature, and on the comparison and interaction with it, a heavily populated nature, conditioned by man and his rules.
The works are a synthesis of this difficult and very delicate balance, they are placed in a border area between tradition and innovation, through research and the innovative use of techniques, materials and unpublished methods, such as the personal reinterpretation of the intaglio printing technique.

Barbara recreates sounds similar to wind instruments that the wind blows through the leaves of the trees, composes rhythms made by the breath of nature that becomes symphony.

Barbara draws on the world around her: plaster of walls, fragments of branches, leaves, re-produced by compressing the space, time, size, and even the human essence. When generating these compressions she creates representations of human language, developing a system of signs and sounds to incorporate and integrate the complexity of the world, to be able, once again, to establish an intense dialogue with nature.

04-07 October 2014
Venue: Fine Art Asia 2014, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre
Address: 1 Expo Drive, Wanchai, Hong Kong
Opening hours: http://www.fineartasia.com/openhours.htm

About 29 Arts In Progress
29 Arts In Progress, a London-based full service company that provides a global platform to bring together various stakeholders in the world of art. With the philosophy and mission to actively contribute to the global development of contemporary art as ambassadors of cultural diversity, the company is committed to bring the highest organizational and artistic standards in the art business. 29 Arts In Progress fosters the development of talented contemporary artists by creating carefully curated art experiences through the permanent and temporary art exhibitions it organizes around the world. Through these experiences, it provides a platform to bring together artists, curators and art galleries, offering outstanding services to collectors, intermediaries and investors interested in buying unique works of art.

For more information, please visit 29artsinprogress.com, email: info@29artsinprogress.com

About Identity Art Gallery Hong Kong
Art is Long, Life is Short. Identity Art Gallery brings together visionary art identities who respect art as a lifelong, enduring creative endeavour existing outside the realms of fads and fashion. We discover and promote artists from all four corners of the world, whose strong inner visions foster, seduce, confront and bolster our identities across a diverse range of media, in unusual, direct and lasting manners.
Beauty and colours are our mutual interest; simplicity and integrity our common language. Forging links and synergies among like-minded artists, collectors, galleries and curators through solo exhibitions and group collaborations, our ultimate vision is to cultivate an environment where creativity and identities may further flourish.

Fore more information, please visit identityartgallery.com, email: info@identityartgallery.com

Opening 24 september

Hong Kong Arts Centre, Pao Galleries, 5th Floor
Address: 2 Harbour Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong
Opening hours: Monday - Sunday, 10.00 a.m - 08.00 p.m
admission free

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