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until 04.09. | #4342ARTatBerlin | Galerie feinart Berlin shows from 3rd August 2024 the exhibition Shadow Flowers by the artist Letizia Werth.
Letizia Werth is interested in drawing and its materiality as well as in the relationship between drawing and other media such as photography and video. Under the title “Shadow Flowers”, she summarises a series of monochrome works in which she transforms images of found anonymous — “lost” — photographs from private living spaces onto canvas in graphite and ink. In the process of leaving the photographic model, categories such as space, time, fiction and reality come to light in all their fragility.
Letizia Werth, Ohne Titel, Graphit,Tusche auf Molino, 60 x 80cm, 2019 ©LWerth
“Drawing is an immediate process of assimilation and digestion […]. It is comparable to the flow of air when breathing in and out, pausing and letting go, and that is exactly how I stop time for a few moments and move into new pictorial worlds.” Letizia Werth has studied the influence of various media on perception in depth, from photography and video to X-rays and séances.
Letizia Werth, Untitled, graphite, ink on Molino, 90 x 100cm, 2020 ©LWerth
In Shadow Flowers, the boundaries between the spiritual and the physical, reality and fantasy, become blurred. On the one hand, we know that there are real authors, times and places of origin, but these are forever unknown, forgotten, erased. Where the scenes are turned into negatives and graphite and ink condense dust-like on the surface of the picture, there is an echo of the uncanny, the mysterious. Whoever took these photos must have been touched by something that was worth capturing. These works demonstrate the artist’s sensitivity to the poetry of temporality and the intensity of the unique yet fleeting moment.
Letizia Werth, Ohne Titel, Graphit, Tusche auf Molino, 80 x 100cm, 2024 ©LWerth
Letizia Werth lives and works in Vienna and holds a Diploma Degree from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria. Her work has been honoured with numerous grants and prizes, most recently the Martin Rainer Prize 2024 and the Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder 2024 residency in Trondheim Norway.
Letizia Werth, Ohne Titel, Graphit, Tusche auf Molino, 40 x 50cm, 2024 ©LWerth
Among recent exhibitions can be listed: Bildraum 07 Vienna (solo), C.A.Contemporary Vienna (solo), Drawing now fair Paris (solo), Kunsthalle West Lana Italy, Museion Bolzano Italy, Kunstforum Montafon Austria, MIET Thessaloniki Greece, Kunstforum Unterland Neumarkt Italy (solo), 21er Haus Vienna. Her works are represented in the Austrian Federal Collection (Artothek des Bundes), Collection of the City of Vienna (Sammlung Wien Museum), Collection of the Province of South Tyrol, Collection ÖBV Vienna, Collection of the City of Attnang-Puchheim, Collection Parkhotel Laurin, Collection Raiffeisen Landesbank South Tyrol, among others.
Vernissage: Saturday, 03 August 2024, 6 to 9 pm | 7 pm official welcome
Exhibition dates: Saturday, 03 August 2024 to Wednesday, 04 September 2024
Finissage: Wednesday, 04 September 2024, 6 to 9 pm
To the gallery
Title image caption: Letizia Werth, Ohne Titel, Graphit, Tusche auf Molino, 150 x 180cm, 2019 ©LWerth
Exhibition Shadow Flowers – Galerie feinart berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst Berlin – Contemporary Art – Exhibition Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
