This exhibition features the work of London photographer, Matthew Durrant and explores the effect of anxiety in our lives and the associated emotions that we feel. It is told through a series of photographs depicting a story called 'The Colour Jungle'.  

The narrative aims to explore the cyclical conflict through time of all-consuming anxiety (a metaphorical jungle, like dense vegetation or a concrete metropolis) with a sensory release (colour). At different times in the sequence, one or both may be dominant. 

Matthew originally trained as a conservationist and inspired by modern social issues as well as the challenges which face our environment. He uses colour to inject stories through his photographs, which he manipulates through post-production techniques.

Artist: 
- Matt Durrant

www.matthewdurrant.co.uk 

EXHIBITION Information

30th November - 5th December 2018

Photography Exhibition

Opening hours 11am - 6pm Daily

THE SILENT WITNESS 

CURATED BY STEFANIA CARROZZINI

The exhibition project, inspired by the Icelandic documentary film "Innsaei", focuses on the idea of Nature in the contemporary. Nature, our mother earth, is conceived here in all its complexity, as a silent witness with its strength, immensity and beauty that observes us leaving us aware of our fragility with respect to it and reminding us that in the end all is one, everything belongs to the same substance of the cosmos.

It is nature today that dictates an ethics in an imperative way and it will be nature in the future that obliges us to return to our essence. How long will the earth be able to accommodate a selfish human being who thinks and acts on the basis of the laws of the market and of interest? From here depends our destiny of inhabitants of the planet. All the achievements of contemporary art cannot be separated from the comparison with nature because it represents the measure of conscience and sensitivity.

Nature, therefore, is the Silent Witness, it has a soul watching us and gives without wanting anything in return, like the sun that rises and sets every day following a cosmic harmony. Nature is sacred, and art, looking at it, can contribute to the awareness and the birth of a new planetary consciousness. "Human and Nature with the united soul will build a new world", Joseph Beuys often repeated, and this is what we hope for and this is also the spirit with which the artists worked.

The exhibition "The Silent Witness" is an international event that starts from Milan and then continues, in 2019, to New York from December 11 to December 22 and London from February 12 to February 23 2019 

Artists: 
- Augusta Bariona
- Patrick Dennis
- Gaia Di Blasio
- Jasmin Genzel
- Elisabeth Laplante 
- Gerd Rucker
- Misa Sawairi
- Amela Cikota
- Susi Lamarca 

EXHIBITION Information

12th - 23rd February 2019

Mixed Media Exhibition

Opening hours 11am - 6pm Daily