Guest Curator Domenico de Chirico Highlights The Works Of Nadya Peovska, Trendafila Trendafilova & James Reynolds
Domenico de Chirco. Independent Curator.About Domenico de Chirco
Born in Bari in 1983, he lives and works in Milan. From 2011 until 2015 he was a professor in "Visual Culture" and "Trend Research" at Milan’s European Institute of Design (IED).
He collaborates with a number of international artists, galleries, institutions, art fairs, art prizes, and magazines worldwide.
He has been artistic director at DAMA Fair, Turin (2016-2019). He was also a visiting tutor at Goldsmiths, University of London (2018) and a member of the Network Event for Young Curators, LISTE - Art Fair Basel, Basel (2018).
Upcoming projects and researches (2020/21): Swab Barcelona Contemporary Art Fair, Barcelona (committee member); Roma Arte in Nuvola: Fiera internazionale d'arte contemporanea, Rome, Italy (advisor); Lecture at the Academy of Applied Arts, Prague; Guest curator at Swiss Institute, Rome (visiting tutor); MIA Art Fair, Milan (curator). Upcoming exhibitions in various venues and cities, among which: Milan, Antwerp, Rome, Caserta, Bologna, Timișoara, Ghent, Budapest, Turin, Copenaghen, Matera, London, and so forth.
Artist Selected
Nadya Peovska
Trendafila Trendafilova
James ReynoldsNadya Peovska
The act of stopping is a recurring aspect in Nadya Peovska's work. It is expressed in all its pregnant reality as a container of moments. A pause that lasts, a moment that lasts a thousand moments. Here the female figure pauses while everything around her appears in motion, each shape envelops the adjacent one and in doing so the incessant becoming of the real acts as a proscenium to the psychological complexity of the foreground subject.
Each of her feelings are overexposed, highlighted by the act of stopping, which emphasizes both meditation and the carefree and tangled connection of the subject with the surrounding environment.
Each stroke of the painting whispers words of intimacy making sure that the unconscious processes of that figure who appears as relaxed as a ball of emotions are the words of humanity as a whole that questions its relationship with being and its position in this world.
Trendafilia Trendafilova
The manifestation of the elements, their coming to light is one of the most important aspects of Trendafila Trendafilova's work.
Everything acquires its perimeter and its formal definition thanks to sunlight, this is how the world acquires consciousness, this is how Trendafila sees the world.
Her painting has all the characteristics of a magical ritual thanks to which everything is said properly for what it is, praising its essence.
This work in particular while having a symbolic semblance far from any reference, it only wants to reiterate the essence of what is represented through refraction dynamics and chromatic games, raising the gestures of a hand to pure praise.
James Reynolds
The use of the surface through linear games that highlight different angles and pictorial hints at complex variants of introspection which are a characteristic feature of James Reynolds' work.
This work, is the incessant dialectic between the simplicity of the stroke, the result of a careful and scrupulous technical work, and the resulting complexity, which leads the viewer to immerse themselves in a mixed state between amazement and discomfort.
Unkile his other workd, this painting shows a clear separation between drawing and painting, in which the latter appears as a chasm element, which incorporates the subject in evidence full of conscience in the depths of being.