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Art Journal,
art and culture magazine - March,
2007
Laura Fantini. Make
visible the invisible
 After
the exhibition in New York at the end of the year, the Bolognese
artist is featured with a personal exhibition at the Spazio Ras
in Ozzano Emilia (April 27 – May 25).
After her various US exhibition dates, Laura Fantini returns to
Bologna to present her artworks at the opening of her solo
exhibition entitled “Make Visible the Invisible”. The exhibition
will feature a presentation by professor Franchino Falsetti at
the offices of Spazio Arte Ras, and be on display from Friday
April 27 through May 25, 2007. This is what Falsetti writes
about the artist: “The visual experience presented by the artist
Laura Fantini in some cases appears to be more incisive than the
linguistic one, as it offers efficient forms of recognition with
no mediation or rhetoric transfiguration. The visual space used
answers to the intention of building immediate contacts, replete
of sensorial richness, by reaching true forms of perceptive
ecstasy. While the exhaustive effect of the image is privileged,
Laura Fantini doesn’t apply any dichotomy between image and
word: her images are pieces of a discourse, so a painting offers
different models of discourse through its images.”
In New York, the Bolognese artist has exhibited at the Object
Image Gallery in Brooklyn (91 Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn, New York)
where she has taken part, as every year, in the exhibition
entitled “Holiday Art Show”, from December 2006 through January
8, 2007. Laura Fantini, the only Italian artist, presented for
the occasion some new works from her series “Cityscapes”. At the
group exhibition, other artists were present: Warren Beishir,
Gregory Paquette, Janet Yake, Michael Calabrese, Gaeth McRae,
Roman Scott, Leslie Kerby, Robert Weiss, Ed Leibstone, Thomas
Hagan and Erica Harris.
Laura Fantini started collaborating with the Object Image
Gallery in 2004, even though it was in 1998 when she started her
relationship with the US. Indeed, in July of that year, one of
her colored pencil artworks was published by an American
newsletter distributed internationally and in 2000 she was
invited to participate in a fundraising event at Kutztown
University in Pennsylvania. In 2001, she exhibited in SOHO, New
York, for the first time; while in 2002, she started
collaborating with the New York based not-for-profit
organization The Big Apple Greeter. It is for this organization
that, already last November and for her second year in a row,
she is invited to take part in a fundraising event “Celebrate
New York 2006”, at the prestigious Cipriani in Manhattan at 23rd
Street. For this occasion, this is what was written about her in
New York: “Laura Fantini showcases one of her unique works of
art from her Cityscapes collection. Fantini’s works are vibrant
and detailed. The New York cityscapes capture the essence of the
different neighborhoods and are characterized by bright colors
and meticulous details.”
Spazio Arte RAS,
Via Emilia 68 – Ozzano Emilia
Phone: 051 6511620
E-mail:
arte@spaziosrl.it
Above: “Fall in Carroll Street, Brooklyn” gouache, ink, pastel
and pencil on cardboard.
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