Which is nature’s fire escape?
Expanded painting installation + performative burning + Mixed media on canvas, fire. Barcelona, Spain. 2022. Full installation $3500.
Piece 1 – Survivor
Piece of the burnt expanded painting installation. Mixed media on canvas + video (online) 42,x35cm unframed.
$1500
Piece 2 – Legacy
Remains and ashes of the burnt painting. Acrylic box (need to update measurements of the box)*
$1500
Piece 3 – Burning
Expanded painting installation. Mixed media on canvas + video (online) 20x20x3,5cm
$1000
Carminati explores the fire escape from a conceptual point of view: the way out of an urban emergency for the sake of survival. However, when fire sets on forests and crops, is there a way out? This expanded painting reveals a version of Anneken Hendriks burning depicted by Jan Luyken overlapping an image of the current wildfires burning wheat crops in Spain. The works create an analogy between art processes and natural successions, in this case, both burning to destruction. If, as Goethe has said, art’s a manifestation of the laws of nature, the only possible destiny of this work was to turn into ashes, remains, and burn in the fire.
BIO. Natalia was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is a visual artist and researcher. Her research work reflects on a critical study of contemporary culture, postcolonial theory, biotechnology and food sovereignty. She has received scholarships and grants awarded by Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona City Council, Arts Santa Mònica, La Escocesa, Creació i Museus and Baden-Württemberg.
Her projects materialize in the creation of multisensory devices that integrate video, sound experimentation, videogame, painting, installation and performance. She has participated in solo and group shows and performances in MACBA (Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona), Picasso Museum Barcelona, Centre d’Arts Santa Mònica, Born Center for Culture and Memory, Las Cigarreras Cultural Center (Alicante), L’Estruch (Sabadell), Fabra i Coats, Konvent Zero (Berga), Sant Cugat del Vallès House of Culture, Hybrid Fair (Madrid), SWAB Barcelona Art Fair, LOOP Barcelona, GREC Festival, Salmon Festival, Tangent Projects, Ostavinska Galerija (Belgrade) and Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (Germany), among others.
She has worked as a resident artist at Fabra i Coats, Konvent Zero, Piramidón Contemporary Art Center and BAIR Belgrade Artist in Residence. She currently works as an artist in residence at La Escocesa and Centre D’Arts Santa Mònica in Barcelona.
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