Imagining the past is perhaps more difficult than imagining the future
Francesco Clemente
Coming October 5 to Trento’s Studio d’Arte Raffaelli “Waiting Game”, the first solo exhibition in Italy for Izzy Barber, an American artist born in 1990, former student and assistant of Francesco Clemente.
The peculiarity that distinguishes the artist is the courageous choice to work exclusively en plein air, to capture vivid and sincere impressions of the present.
Whether it is urban scenery, as in the series of paintings on display in the exhibition “Bar”, “Bus” and “Subway Station”, or her evocative natural landscapes, Izzy Barber’s painting follows an unmistakable line, made up of layers that start from instinctive and immediate brushstrokes to arrive, with each touch, at an increasingly precise definition of the surrounding environment.
A keen observer of reality, Izzy Barber gives rise with her modes of expression to a kind of “post-litteram impressionism,” which leads her to travel in and out of New York at all hours of the day and night.
The “waiting game” thus takes place between the artist and the everyday situations she chooses to represent, with works that restore the immediacy of a photograph combined with the meditation of painting.
About thirty paintings and fifteen watercolors on paper, created in the past two years – and some of them especially for the exhibition – are part of the installation of the exhibition.
“Wating Game” will open on Thursday, October 5, 2023 at 6 p.m. in the presence of the artist and will continue until December 12, 2023.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalog with text by Stefano Castelli.
