"Girls with Guns" Exhibition Opens in Miami Saturday September 12, 2009. From 7:30 Pm Until 11 Pm.
Natalie Silva's “Girls with Guns” is a foreign exhibit that has the ability not only to transcend international borders and translate in any country, but to combine American Pop art with her multifaceted Italian influence. This body of work was created in her Ventimiglia studio, (on the northern coast of Italy), and was brought over to Dot Fiftyone especially for this exhibition.
Miami, FL, August 29, 2009 --(PR.com)-- “Natalie Silva’s “Girls with guns” exhibition opens in Miami Saturday September 12, 2009.
Dot Fiftyone Gallery announces the premiere of Italian artist Natalie Silva’s second solo show in Miami to be unveiled in a cocktail style opening Saturday September 12, 2009, from 7:30 PM until 11 PM.
Natalie Silva's “Girls with Guns” is a foreign exhibit that has the ability not only to transcend international borders and translate in any country, but to combine American Pop art with her multifaceted Italian influence. This body of work was created in her Ventimiglia studio, (on the northern coast of Italy), and was brought over to Dot Fiftyone especially for this exhibition.
This series depicts the relationship between victim and predator and how the pursued slowly morphs into the pursuer. It starts with “Killer Looks” and travels full circle concluding with “The Day We Killed Them All”. This vision is made to be playful regardless of the lethality and mortality of a gun; Silva is a firm believer that guns do not kill, people do. The contradiction and irony present in these pieces reflect the power struggle between the perception and/or prejudice we have toward the symbolism of weapons and the softness and supposed delicacy of women. Most of the works exhibited were inspired by cinema of the late 60’s and 70’s and the heroines who played lead roles in those crime thrillers. Each girl could be either a gangster or a detective, a mother or a sister, a colleague or a friend, but both their movie star and real life personalities caused the fashion and culture of that era to be heavily influenced and “pop” oriented. These movies are reflections of the struggles and revolution that women in that period underwent in their quest to obtain equal rights and freedom.
Natalie Silva considers herself a painter, not an artist. In the duration of her career, one of her most predominant features that have been constantly pointed out is her conciseness. The gift and the curse of always being present, to experience things as they happen, is an aspect that can give us both great pleasures as well as great sufferings simultaneously, depending on our sense of humor and on chance. This attribute is blatantly depicted when looking at one of her paintings.
Almost 40 years later, Natalie Silva decided to pay homage those inspirational women by bringing them back to the XXI century in a very personal way, giving them life with her artistic and talented sensibility.
Natalie’s paintings methods involve looking then painting, which synthesizes the pieces that are once again firmly related to knowing. Her eyes are restless, her hands too as she prefers to do rather than to talk about her past and/or future pieces. She is a firm believer of always letting the past rest in peace and leaving the future to chaos. She brings down to scale complex chemical reactions that either work or do not in addition to humans, whose energy and paths often cross or merge, at any given level, either magical, personal, symbolic or social. From an emotional and psychological point of view, this work deals with lack of love, with the need to conquer, to win, and to be powerful. It represents women whose energy draws lines and reverberate colors, a cosmogony of human characters, a critical point, where chromophobia concentrates and implodes. The exhibition includes frames where the oversimplification of black & white is exceeded and concepts come across with a brushstroke. Natalie Silva presents images that are so intimate, that they provoke solitariness when observing.
Part of the “Girls with guns” series has been shown recently at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, UK.
“Girls with guns” will be on display through October 30th at DOT Fiftyone Gallery, 51 N.W. 36th Street, in the Wynwood Art and Miami Design District. Following the September 12th opening reception, gallery hours will be Monday-Friday, 12 P.M. to 7 P.M., Saturday and private viewing available by appointment. Visuals and catalogues are available upon request.
Media Contact: Isaac@dotfiftyone.com 305-573-9994 x100
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Dot Fiftyone Gallery announces the premiere of Italian artist Natalie Silva’s second solo show in Miami to be unveiled in a cocktail style opening Saturday September 12, 2009, from 7:30 PM until 11 PM.
Natalie Silva's “Girls with Guns” is a foreign exhibit that has the ability not only to transcend international borders and translate in any country, but to combine American Pop art with her multifaceted Italian influence. This body of work was created in her Ventimiglia studio, (on the northern coast of Italy), and was brought over to Dot Fiftyone especially for this exhibition.
This series depicts the relationship between victim and predator and how the pursued slowly morphs into the pursuer. It starts with “Killer Looks” and travels full circle concluding with “The Day We Killed Them All”. This vision is made to be playful regardless of the lethality and mortality of a gun; Silva is a firm believer that guns do not kill, people do. The contradiction and irony present in these pieces reflect the power struggle between the perception and/or prejudice we have toward the symbolism of weapons and the softness and supposed delicacy of women. Most of the works exhibited were inspired by cinema of the late 60’s and 70’s and the heroines who played lead roles in those crime thrillers. Each girl could be either a gangster or a detective, a mother or a sister, a colleague or a friend, but both their movie star and real life personalities caused the fashion and culture of that era to be heavily influenced and “pop” oriented. These movies are reflections of the struggles and revolution that women in that period underwent in their quest to obtain equal rights and freedom.
Natalie Silva considers herself a painter, not an artist. In the duration of her career, one of her most predominant features that have been constantly pointed out is her conciseness. The gift and the curse of always being present, to experience things as they happen, is an aspect that can give us both great pleasures as well as great sufferings simultaneously, depending on our sense of humor and on chance. This attribute is blatantly depicted when looking at one of her paintings.
Almost 40 years later, Natalie Silva decided to pay homage those inspirational women by bringing them back to the XXI century in a very personal way, giving them life with her artistic and talented sensibility.
Natalie’s paintings methods involve looking then painting, which synthesizes the pieces that are once again firmly related to knowing. Her eyes are restless, her hands too as she prefers to do rather than to talk about her past and/or future pieces. She is a firm believer of always letting the past rest in peace and leaving the future to chaos. She brings down to scale complex chemical reactions that either work or do not in addition to humans, whose energy and paths often cross or merge, at any given level, either magical, personal, symbolic or social. From an emotional and psychological point of view, this work deals with lack of love, with the need to conquer, to win, and to be powerful. It represents women whose energy draws lines and reverberate colors, a cosmogony of human characters, a critical point, where chromophobia concentrates and implodes. The exhibition includes frames where the oversimplification of black & white is exceeded and concepts come across with a brushstroke. Natalie Silva presents images that are so intimate, that they provoke solitariness when observing.
Part of the “Girls with guns” series has been shown recently at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, UK.
“Girls with guns” will be on display through October 30th at DOT Fiftyone Gallery, 51 N.W. 36th Street, in the Wynwood Art and Miami Design District. Following the September 12th opening reception, gallery hours will be Monday-Friday, 12 P.M. to 7 P.M., Saturday and private viewing available by appointment. Visuals and catalogues are available upon request.
Media Contact: Isaac@dotfiftyone.com 305-573-9994 x100
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