Lorenza Boisi
13 Jan - 24 Feb 2007
LORENZA BOISI
Recent Works
Front space Mattias Faldbakken prolonged until 24th of February.
Gallery Diana Stigter opens the New Year with a presentation by Italian painter Lorenza Boisi (Milan, 1972). Boisi shows her most recent works in the little space in the back of the gallery, which will now, under the title Backspace, be inaugurated.
Boisi’s art is expressionist figurative. The brushstrokes are clearly visible is her textured, layered oil paintings. From creamy backgrounds in blue-whites tones, presentations evolve. Nocturnal birds or female characters are depicted and painted as smooth and fluently as the backgrounds. Sometimes it concerns landscapes: whimsically shaped trees and branches in chilly winter forests. Her romantic iconography tells a story of emptiness, loneliness and decay, often with a humoristic touch. The sweet pastel colours contrast sharply with the numerous death references in dark brown: skeletons and skulls. It gives Boisi’s fragile art a rough accent. Gloomy titles such as Solitude Standing en Dead Tree emphasize the melancholic atmosphere that characterizes the work. Boisi has a pronounced taste and a personal iconography. She draws from art history, literature and her own, emotional memories.
Lorenza Boisi finished the Royal Academy of Fine Art in The Hague in 2002. Later she studied at the Villa Arson Art Academy in Nice, France. Boisi lives and works in Milan. Now her work will be shown to a Dutch public for the first time.
(Manon Braat)
© Lorenza Boisi
X-Mas Branch, 2006
Oil on canvas
30x30 cm.
Recent Works
Front space Mattias Faldbakken prolonged until 24th of February.
Gallery Diana Stigter opens the New Year with a presentation by Italian painter Lorenza Boisi (Milan, 1972). Boisi shows her most recent works in the little space in the back of the gallery, which will now, under the title Backspace, be inaugurated.
Boisi’s art is expressionist figurative. The brushstrokes are clearly visible is her textured, layered oil paintings. From creamy backgrounds in blue-whites tones, presentations evolve. Nocturnal birds or female characters are depicted and painted as smooth and fluently as the backgrounds. Sometimes it concerns landscapes: whimsically shaped trees and branches in chilly winter forests. Her romantic iconography tells a story of emptiness, loneliness and decay, often with a humoristic touch. The sweet pastel colours contrast sharply with the numerous death references in dark brown: skeletons and skulls. It gives Boisi’s fragile art a rough accent. Gloomy titles such as Solitude Standing en Dead Tree emphasize the melancholic atmosphere that characterizes the work. Boisi has a pronounced taste and a personal iconography. She draws from art history, literature and her own, emotional memories.
Lorenza Boisi finished the Royal Academy of Fine Art in The Hague in 2002. Later she studied at the Villa Arson Art Academy in Nice, France. Boisi lives and works in Milan. Now her work will be shown to a Dutch public for the first time.
(Manon Braat)
© Lorenza Boisi
X-Mas Branch, 2006
Oil on canvas
30x30 cm.