Nature Power
Niura Bellavinha, Denis Jutzeler, Victoire Cathalan, Miriam da Silva Kuobel, Mila Mayer et Mai-Britt Wolthers
Opening on Thursday 13 September 2018 from 18h
Exhibition until 28 October 2018
Opening hours: Tuesday – Saturday from 11am to 6pm and by appointment
“All art is an imitation of nature” Seneca – Philosopher, 4 BC / 65 AD”
The exhibition Nature Power presents, through the eyes of six Brazilian and European artists, different approaches to perceive the strength of nature. Niura Bellavinha, Denis Jutzeler, Victoire Cathalan, Miriam da Silva Kuobel, Mila Mayer and Mai-Britt Wolthers will express their relationship to nature according to their creative approaches.
Until the 1960s, when Land Art appeared in the heart of the grandiose landscapes of the American West, the relationship between the artist and nature was summed up in its representation. Almost non-existent in the frescoes of the Middle Ages, the landscape appears in the paintings of the Renaissance, where it becomes frequent to place the religious and mythological scenes on a background of more or less idealized nature. We can see it in the work of Piero della Francesca «the Resurrection» dating from 1463 or in «the Spring» by Sandro Botticcelli, 1478. At that time, the landscape only serves as a setting for the characters represented. It was not until the 17th century that Dutch painters such as Rembrandt, Vermeer… like to represent the nature that surrounds them, based on direct observation of reality. If the landscape is still slow to become a subject, it is to triumph with the Impressionists: it becomes not only a genre in its own right, but the object in itself of decisive research on color, light, and space.Thus translating the perception lived by an observer as does Claude Monet with his «Water Lilies» since 1897.
Through the imitation of reality, the artist artificially creates figures and images that distance the viewer from his realistic vision. In this way, art makes it possible to better understand nature, and possibly, to transmit new messages. The artists express their wonder at a natural beauty, which does not need a rule to describe a reality in itself. The work is enough of a gesture, of a technique specific to each artist to express a feeling, that of man facing a higher dimension that evokes the mother of all creations
Niura Bellavinha, Denis Jutzeler, Victoire Cathalan, Miriam da Silva Kuobel, Mila Mayer et Mai-Britt Wolthers
Opening on Thursday 13 September 2018 from 18h
Exhibition until 28 October 2018
Opening hours: Tuesday – Saturday from 11am to 6pm and by appointment
“All art is an imitation of nature” Seneca – Philosopher, 4 BC / 65 AD”
The exhibition Nature Power presents, through the eyes of six Brazilian and European artists, different approaches to perceive the strength of nature. Niura Bellavinha, Denis Jutzeler, Victoire Cathalan, Miriam da Silva Kuobel, Mila Mayer and Mai-Britt Wolthers will express their relationship to nature according to their creative approaches.
Until the 1960s, when Land Art appeared in the heart of the grandiose landscapes of the American West, the relationship between the artist and nature was summed up in its representation. Almost non-existent in the frescoes of the Middle Ages, the landscape appears in the paintings of the Renaissance, where it becomes frequent to place the religious and mythological scenes on a background of more or less idealized nature. We can see it in the work of Piero della Francesca «the Resurrection» dating from 1463 or in «the Spring» by Sandro Botticcelli, 1478. At that time, the landscape only serves as a setting for the characters represented. It was not until the 17th century that Dutch painters such as Rembrandt, Vermeer… like to represent the nature that surrounds them, based on direct observation of reality. If the landscape is still slow to become a subject, it is to triumph with the Impressionists: it becomes not only a genre in its own right, but the object in itself of decisive research on color, light, and space.Thus translating the perception lived by an observer as does Claude Monet with his «Water Lilies» since 1897.
Through the imitation of reality, the artist artificially creates figures and images that distance the viewer from his realistic vision. In this way, art makes it possible to better understand nature, and possibly, to transmit new messages. The artists express their wonder at a natural beauty, which does not need a rule to describe a reality in itself. The work is enough of a gesture, of a technique specific to each artist to express a feeling, that of man facing a higher dimension that evokes the mother of all creations