GIULIA NAPOLEONE		Biography
nero di china		Exhibition 2002
curated by BRUNO CORÀ		browse the Catalog
18 January – 17 July 2020

you can also see the exhibition and the works on ARTSY

Il Ponte is welcoming the new year with an exhibition dedicated to Giulia Napoleone. The gallery had already organized two exhibitions of this artist’s work in the past, in 1996 and 2002, the first presenting watercolours and pastels, the second oil paintings on canvas and some Indian ink on paper. Nero di china, as can easily be seen from the title, is entirely dedicated to a set of recent works in black (nero) and white, made entirely with Indian ink (china).
In addition to presenting the 15 works on display, the accompanying catalogue retraces this side of the artist’s work from her very first small Indian ink drawings in the mid-1950s onwards. The images and text by Bruno Corà will take us into the distinct dimension of the world in black and white formed by works in which the artist takes Indian ink to its furthest extreme.
As Bruno Corà writes in his text in the catalogue «[…]Giulia Napoleone visualizes the silent but pervasive entity of light and shade. By day and night, the two phenomena stitch seamlessly together. And so, I’ll say straight away that her art tries to tackle one of the toughest questions that have traversed the lives of some great artists as well as – I think I can state – that of Napoleone herself.
[…]The property of Giulia Napoleone’s work is that it makes us notice how the infinitely large and the infinitely small appear in an ambiguous equation that speaks of principles of matter as cosmic laws. Hence, we quickly become aware of the coherence between the properties of space and time[…]».

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