Nami

It is the oil color that, like skin and like flesh goes to cover and modulate all around the black lines. The pigment bathes the canvas and reveals to our eyes sensations and perceptions that add up to the spatial setting achieved through the blackish skeleton. The outcome is diverse each time. In "A Corner of the World" we have the feeling that we are surreptitiously observing a slice of the world. We are hidden behind a color curtain characterized by highly expressive lines and patches of earthy pigment with bluishgreenish tips. The air is still, motionless, and a heartening warmth warms our limbs. Slowly we focus toward the horizon and see three reddish elements. Perhaps people, perhaps objects rising from a flat surface, a corner in fact. The feeling is that of finding ourselves random visitors catapulted to the edge of the world, to observe infinity in calm and tranquility. Entirely different is the perception evoked by "Hell." The work portrays a cramped space with a smoky air that is difficult to breathe. The line that in the previous work was segmented and ordered is now a swirl of curves and swirls that unravel and expand within the work. The claustrophobic feeling is also heightened by the presence of large masses of reddish pigment. Glowing lava that, if we are not careful, can burn our limbs. Incandescent magma and thick, whitish clouds rise above a bluish backdrop that, rather than a sky, resembles the wrinkled, dark ceiling of a cave. Nami, through the skillful use of compositional space and oil color creates true atmospheres and corners of the world. For a moment, looking at her works, we seem to have telestroyed ourselves inside them.

Art Curator Lisa Galletti