Spazio Nobile presents Threads of Nature, a group show reflecting on the living interaction between humans and our planet
Group Exhibition with Jörg Bräuer, Nathalie Campion, Lila Farget, Ernst Gamperl, Kaspar Hamacher, Amy Hilton, Samy Rio, Bela Silva, Jacqueline Surdell & Philipp Weber
Celebrating its 5th anniversary, the Brussels gallery Spazio Nobile is opening a group show including works by 10 artists and designers that reflect on the interaction between human and planet. As is typical for the gallery, the participating artists and designers aren’t bound by disciplines or materials, but are tied by a sensitivity particular to everything related to nature and minerality. The multi-disciplinary exhibition presents glass creations alongside ceramics, wood sculptures, tapestries, photographs and pastel paintings on paper.
The artworks presented in this exhibition reflect a biodiversity that underlines the richness of organic matter as a basis for artistic experimentation in cross-disciplinary practices. In a choreography of gestures, of interlacing threads, the human and the planet join in a dance within a living fabric.
The arts of earth and fire are represented in bamboo-blown glass creations from Samy Rio (FR), filigree lighting and free blown vases by Philipp Weber (DE), architectural forms in molten glass by Lila Farget (FR), and shaped and glazed ceramics by Nathalie Campion (BE) and Bela Silva (PT). A subtle dialogue takes place between the wood sculptures by Ernst Gamperl (DE) and Kaspar Hamacher (BE). The braiding of ropes and cords in the multi-dimensional tapestries of Jacqueline Surdell (US) shakes up the status of textile in contemporary art, while the deep rock explored by Amy Hilton (UK) in her dry pastel mixed with sedimentary coal, recalls the excavation of the Ellora Caves in India reconciling absence and presence, the principles of emptiness, openness, immensity or infinity.
Photographs or wet collodions on ferrotype plates by Jörg Bräuer (DE) also work the same magic of opening the gaze to this space/time that is ours, letting the cliffs of Iceland unfold before our eyes. The majesty of the mountain imposes itself, before which man can only bow. Sitting and looking, touching, feeling and getting in touch with the real world, while letting his soul go to a poetry of intimacy, to the emotion of getting closer to the ultimate reality.
Beyond all beliefs, these ten artists capture the essence of the human being. Their works are contemplative and profound, expressive and resilient, translating the forces of this "new" world where men and women will maintain, in all conscience, a true relationship between them and especially with themselves.
Threads of Nature
18 March - 18 July 2021
Opening: 25 March 2021, 2pm-8pm
Open Doors on Saturday 27 March & Sunday 28 March, from 12-7pm, in the framework of Brussels I Love You (BILY) Contemporary Art Walk.
Open from Tuesday to Saturday, 11am-18pm or by appointment
Online reservations: www.spazionobile.com
Amy Hilton_Light-aura of thought_2020_dry pastel on paper_128 x 88 cm_unique piece_©Margaux Nieto
Bela Silva, Cascade de feuilles, 2021, glazed stoneware, 22 x ø16cm, unique piece, © Margaux Nieto
Bela Silva, Depinto de blu, 2020, glazed terracotta, © Margaux Nieto
Bela Silva, La promenade des Dragons, 2021, Indian Ink on Arches paper, 200 x 150 cm, © Gian Giuseppe Simeone
Ernst Gamperl_69201980_2018turned maple wood sculpture, bleached, limed_102 x ø40 cm_unique piece_©Courtesy of the artist & Spazio Nobile
Jacqueline Surdell_Clutch Solo_2020_nylon_paper_resin_ wood_117x53cm_Unique piece_©Courtesy of the artist & Spazio Nobile.
Jacqueline Surdell, Untitled IIV, Gully in the Mountains 2019, tapestry made of 182,88 cm of steel rod, 152 x 168 x 25 cm unique piece, © courtesy of Jacquline Surdell
Lila Farget_Maisons de plage_2006_molten glass and concrete_36 x 12 x 12 cm_ unique pieces_©Margaux Nieto_3%2C%20unique%20pieces%20%C2%A9%20Margaux%20Nieto.jpg)
Lila Farget, 15 petites Maisons, 2007, molten glass, 9 x 6 x 6 cm (each), unique pieces © Margaux Nieto
Lila Farget, Forme architectural, 2008, layered glass, 44 x 32 x 8 cm, unique piece, © Margaux Nieto
Nathalie Campion_Souche 19 sanglier_2020_hand-built glazed stoneware sculpture_25 x 18 x 17 cm_unique piece_©Christophe Beaucame
Philipp Weber_A Strange Symphony - Improvisations_2020_hand blown glass sculptures or vases_ various dimensions up to one meter_unique pieces_©Courtesy of the artist & Spazio Nobile
Philipp Weber, Improvisation pink, 2020, hand blown glass, various dimensions, © Philipp Weber
About the gallery
By opening Spazio Nobile in 2016 in the very lively and cosmopolitan district of place Brugmann in Brussels (Belgium), Lise Coirier and Gian Giuseppe Simeone have united their passions for creation and art history, initiating a dialogue between contemporary applied arts, design and photography. Without putting boundaries between disciplines, the visual arts interact with the fine arts.
The gallery is know for commissioning a collection of unique pieces, limited editions and installations both experimental and artistic, with a sensitivity particular to everything related to nature and minerality.
Spazio Nobile represents a generation of emerging and internationally renowned artists, designers and photographers, while at the same time bringing the cultures of East and West to the forefront in a dialogue rich of natural and innovative materials. Since its creation, Spazio Nobile has curated and installed exhibitions in selected venues reflecting architectural history, art and heritage, such as the Maison Louis Carré by Alvar Aalto in the Yvelines, France; the Ancienne Nonciature at the Grand Sablon in Brussels; the Chalet de la Forêt, a two-star Michelin restaurant in Brussels.
Spazio Nobile also takes part in Belgian and international fairs such as Art Brussels, Luxembourg Art Week, Collectible Design Fair, PAD Paris and PAD London, Design Miami / Basel, Unique Design Shanghai...
In addition, the gallery publishes through Pro Materia, TLmag_True Living of Art & Design (°2008), the biannual art and design magazine, both printed and online, sharing its curated selection and commitment to the artistic community.
