Roma Arte in Nuvola

18 - 21 November 2021 
Overview
On the occasion of the inaugural edition of Roma Arte in Nuvola, Andrea Festa presents a selection of artists who have contributed to and believed in the gallery project since its inception. For this important Roman event, the gallery has chosen to recreate the atmosphere of an intimate, domestic space—reflecting the identity of its original setting as a home-gallery.


Danny Avidan (b. 1989 – lives and works in Berlin and Pesaro, Italy)
This body of work was created during long months of isolation in the Italian countryside. Avidan redefines painting for himself by combining biography with history and archetype. He works with liquid pigments, bamboo-mounted pencils, handmade charcoal, and his hands—immersing himself in a Mediterranean painterly tradition, from Tarquinia to Twombly, while approaching the canvas intuitively and freely.

Sinéad Breslin (b. 1989 – lives and works in the UK)
Breslin captures suspended moments in time, deliberately ignoring perspective and enriching scenes with whimsical or fictitious details. Bold color blocks and patterned surfaces ground her compositions, where loosely rendered figures echo the dreamlike unity found in works by David Hockney and Henri Matisse.

Seline Burn (b. 1995 – lives and works in Switzerland)
Burn presents her work as a diary, drawing on recent experiences, distant dreams, and internal processes. These intangible themes are transformed into bright, playful visualizations of light and shadow, offering access to the artist’s inner world.

Carlos Casuso (b. 1995 – lives and works in Perugia)
Working between painting and drawing, Casuso builds images through layered visual languages, from Medieval painting to digital aesthetics. He understands painting as a meeting point of stylistic registers, held together by personal experiences and unconscious reactions to a turbulent world.

József Csató (b. 1980 – lives and works in Budapest)
Csató’s work draws heavily on natural forms—smoke, volcanoes, stones, plants, and body parts—woven together with historical art references, fairy-tale and pop iconography, and surrealist visuality. His practice blends abstraction and figuration into richly symbolic compositions.

Ania Hobson (b. 1990 – lives and works in London)
Hobson’s oil paintings depict friends and peers using thick impasto and bold compositions. Her female subjects appear confident and monumental, often viewed from high or low angles, imbuing them with a powerful sculptural presence.

Nick Hoover (b. 1991 – lives and works in Brooklyn)
Hoover explores small, often banal moments of everyday life with a painterly and sincere approach. His work opens a space for reflection on social nuance and perception, highlighting individual awareness and interpersonal dynamics.

Martin Lukáč (lives and works in Prague)
Lukáč references the Ninja Turtles—iconic symbols of 1990s post-socialist Slovak youth culture—by reworking their distorted and mass-produced imagery. His paintings reflect a critical nostalgia and raw engagement with pop cultural memory.

Sola Olulode (b. 1996 – lives and works in London)
Olulode’s dreamlike, queer visions explore the lived experiences of British Black womxn and non-binary folx. Using natural dyes, batik, wax, pastel, oil, and impasto, she creates richly textured canvases that celebrate queer intimacies and cultural identity.

Kottie Paloma (b. 1974 – lives and works in Germany)
Inspired by German Expressionism, music, and contemporary issues, Paloma’s works combine abstraction and representation. His puzzle-like compositions offer spatial hints, symbols, and dynamic forms that invite the viewer to find coherence amid contradiction.

Andreas Zampella (b. 1989 – lives and works in Milan)
Zampella’s work unfolds like a theatrical piece: painting becomes the set design for action and inaction, a metaphor for the viewer. Sculptural elements—props, raw meat, machines—serve as principal actors, suspended between frozen gestures and absurd repetition.

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