Verona, at Kromya Art Gallery the Pax Naturae of Davide Maria Coltro

After the success of his Milan exhibition at the Studio Museo Francesco Messina and his first solo show in Switzerland, Davide Maria Coltro (Verona, 1967) returns to Verona, his hometown, with a monographic exhibition in the spaces of Kromya Art Gallery. Pax Naturae is the title of the exhibition, curated by Alberto Fiz. The theme chosen by the artist seems particularly relevant in the phase of profound uncertainty we are experiencing. With Pax Naturae, the Quadro Mediale invented by Coltro in 2001 becomes, in fact, an interpreter of nature as an element tending toward a progressive pacification.

The Medial Frame is a device in continuous design development, which elaborates and constructs by initiating a new perception of the work of art. The digital painting not only responds to a current historical and cultural vision, but also unleashes the evocative power of the traditional painting. Thus, in Pax Naturae, landscapes, skies, arborescences take on a new meaning where digital intervention captures the totalizing aspect of a nature in perpetual transformation. The exhibition features more than 30 works and a new cycle where the artist analyzes the transformation of floral elements seen from above through a lenticular procedure in which photography, painting and technology find a renewed synthesis. The Medial Frame modifies the fruition of the work of art in that it enables the production of an aesthetic and iconic continuum in perpetual change. No longer, therefore, a fixed device as in the case of video, but a work that based on the artist’s input develops a process that cannot be determined a priori.

The exhibition in the gallery proposes different planes of interpretation, and from each Medial Framework derive digital icons produced as a unique specimen, which seem to fix the moment by shattering the temporal flow. This is a process by which the artist fixes the reminiscence of the image that within the Medial Picture is continuously reformulated.

On the occasion of the exhibition, an extensive monograph of Coltro’s work from the past two decades is published. The volume, published by Vanillaedizioni, is edited by Alberto Fiz and contains texts by Aida Accolla, Chiara Canali, Luigi Codemo, Joseph di Pasquale, Marcello Francolini, Maria Fratelli and Patrizia Nuzzo, as well as an interview with the artist by Gabriele Perretta.

From May 13 to 15, a bi-personal exhibition by Davide Maria Coltro and Giovanni Frangi is presented at Arte Fiera in Bologna, also in the spaces of Kromya Art Gallery.

The statements

“The Medial Painting,” says Alberto Fiz, “by its very definition is always iridescent, predisposed to absorb the continuous flow of images and for this very reason it becomes the ideal tool to relate to the natural infinite.”

“Each time the visitor enters the exhibition he or she is confronted with a different work, in progress, with continuous alterations that go beyond instantaneous communication to meet the time of consciousness,” Coltro explains.

“On this occasion, Coltro’s work investigates the theme of birth and germination, as is evident in the cycle of arborescences where the artist highlights that necessary growth that materializes before our eyes,” writes Patrizia Nuzzo curator in charge of GAM -Galleria d’Arte Moderna Achille Forti in Verona, the space that simultaneously with the exhibition at Kromya Art Gallery presents Contemporaneo Non-Stop. The Breath of Nature, where three works by Coltro (the artist is also in the museum’s permanent collection) from the same cycle are also on display.

The Pax Naturae exhibition will be on view until July 24, 2022, Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and 4 p.m.-7:30 p.m., closed Monday, Sunday and June 2. Free admission.

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Verona, at Kromya Art Gallery the Pax Naturae of Davide Maria Coltro

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