Di nome e di fatto: LOVE /lʌv/ is a feel-good exhibition featuring an eclectic group of artists exploring the many topics of love across a variety of media, from sculpture, traditional work on canvas, photography, light installation to mirror.
In collaboration with and curated by Dynamisk founder Angeliki Kim Perfetti, love runs through the exhibition as a fil rouge, putting topics such as self-love and narcissism under the magnifying glass. Presenting exciting contemporary artists alongside and in conversation with iconic established names, it brings together references to art history, visual culture and contemporary storytelling.
Part of the exhibition is curated around the works of text artists whose art focuses on love in different ways. Johan Deckmann, both as an artist and practising psychotherapist, paints witty titles or pensive phrases that provide satirical commentary on the complexities of life. Just as artist and writer Harland Miller’s polychromatic and graphically vernacular paintings have garnered a devoted following, Pietro Terzini is also considered a modern poet fueled by today’s digital generation.
Light has always been related to love, and considered a source of hope in dark times. Both Chris Levine and Johannes Holt Iversen’s artworks investigate the representation of light, shadow, and matter. Using light in a multidisciplinary approach that harnesses a diverse array of technology with the intention of revealing the ways in which light is fundamental to human experience.
Love is a language that we all speak and is also explored in Helen Booth’s large-scale abstract paintings, Polly Morgan’s sculpture, which bridges life and death, human and nature, and Nancy Cadogan’s adoration for contemplative observation.
