Pressemitteilung Northern landscapes and memory

Kulturförderverein Nordstadt e.V.
Galerie im Kult41
Hochstadenring 41
53119 Bonn
www.kult41.net
[email protected]
Pressemitteilung
11.01.2016
Am Donnerstag, 18. Februar 2016 eröffnet die Galerie im Kult41 die neue
Ausstellung „Northern landscapes and memory“ der italienischen Künstlerin
Barbara Gabriella Renzi alias Lule. Zu sehen sind ihre Arbeiten bis zum 13. März
im Kult41.
Die Galerie ist bei allen Veranstaltungen des Kult41 geöffnet. Es bieten sich z.B.
die Kneipen-Donnerstage (Tumult) an. Der Fokus der etwas „anderen Galerie“
liegt auf der Förderung talentierter nicht etablierter Künstler. Ihnen will die
Galerie einen Rahmen geben, sich einer breiten Öffentlichkeit zu präsentieren
und Ausstellungserfahrungen zu sammeln.
Northern landscapes and memory
Ausstellung von Lule (18.02. – 13.03.2016)
Waves of memory and traces in
Bonn landscapes.
“The paintings are my impressions of
travelling through Germany, looking
at the German scenery through the
eyes of a woman from the South:
the colours of the snow and the rain,
the fields from a train, hills like
women, women’s eyes, trees...
Images show Bonn as seen through
the lens of my experiences and
emotions. They are expressions of
the impressions left on my soul by
the city landscape: ghost images and
a bundle of emotions. Bonn’s sky
and the migrant clouds bring me the
taste of different cultures and
expectations.
The painting is called: “Even the darkness” (oil on canvas).
When I paint I usually use standard techniques and tools
but, sometimes, I feel my daily life has the right to enter my
art. So, kitchen tools become art tools and the wood I find
on beaches in Italy or in the trash become my canvas. Those
are usually the paintings that are dearest to my soul.
Kulturförderverein Nordstadt e.V.
Galerie im Kult41
Hochstadenring 41
53119 Bonn
www.kult41.net
[email protected]
Intense memories are transformed into textured abstract images capturing the
joy of being a child, precious moments and beloved places of a life lived by the
sea, the unforgettable taste and smell of favourite sweets and cakes.
The waves of the sea are also the waves of memory. Every time I bathe in the
sea of memory I change the waves and my memories and my memories change
me.
My paintings are visual evocations of my childhood: swimming in the warm sea
water and floating on and playing with the waves, the internal peace that we
lose when we grow, the food and the life in the moment that we forget to live,
being the happiest child on earth when tasting and eating a lemon lollypop, the
smell of coffee in the house, the taste of sugar with a drop of coffee and that of
cinnamon cakes…
These memories are interconnected and changed by my life in Bonn and my
paintings are at the intersection between past and present as a metaphor of
time that passes but stay still at the same time. My paintings are waves of past
and present times.“
Lule - Barbara Gabriella Renzi
Lule is an Italian visual artist. She started painting under the direction of Italian painter and
sculptor Bruno Caviola. She has developed her original style thorough an on-going
exploration of the qualities and combinations of textures, colours and materials. Her art has
its origin in dreams and memories and it is a metaphor of her life and interiority.
Lule has extensively exhibited in Northern Ireland and Italy. Her recent exhibitions include
solo shows at Synch Space (Bangor), Common Grounds (Belfast) and at the Crescent Arts
Centre (Belfast).
Ausstellungsdauer: 18. Februar – 13. März 2016
Vernissage: Donnerstag, 18.02.2016 um 20 Uhr
Ort: KULT41, Hochstadenring 41, 53119 Bonn