The Emmeotto Gallery presents the solo show Night and Nude by artist Barbara Luisi, in conjunction with the exhibition ŒUVRES RÉCENTES, hosted by the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris.
Born in Munich, Barbara Luisi lives and works between New York and Europe. A violinist since the age of 9, she graduated from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater and played in many important European orchestras, such as the Munich Philharmonic, the Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse and the Bayerische Staatsoper
The years she devoted to music aroused and sharpened her artistic sensibility, which mingled with her love for painting and her passion for photography, as witnessed by her first experiments, at the age of 17, with the shots of a Leica M6 processed in a darkroom. With photography, which would later become her main activity, Barbara Luisi translates into images what she feels and what until then she had perceived and expressed through music, thus creating her own view of the world, where subjects and objects share the same nature.
The artist exhibits nude photographs and a number of landscapes. While her portraits put emphasis on the analysis of the human body and the perception of light, her
landscapes are nocturnal
vedute that invite the observer to step into an oneiric world and get involved in this borderland between wakefulness and dream: here, the outlines of landscapes become places where the mind and the body can move deep into meditation. Spaces wrap each other and blend together, while the borders between the earth, the sea and the sky blur and melt into one single horizon.
In her works, colours mingle with each other and floor us, through the manifold shades of blue, grey and green. In the darkness, we manage to catch a glimpse of gloomy, dim landscapes - images which force us to observe and contemplate peacefulness and restlessness alternating with unexpected intensity.
Barbara Luisi expresses herself creating visions of portraits, whose protagonists are nature and the human body. Her works were displayed in various institutional and private venues in Europe (Vienna, Geneva, Dresden...), in the United States and in Japan, and were released by important publishers such as Böhlau and Contrasto.
