Guest Curator Lina Vincent Highlights The Works By Alberto Repetti, Nicholas Sims & Emily Klima
Lina Vincent. Independent art historian and curator.About Lina Vincent
Lina Vincent is an independent art historian and curator with two decades experience in arts management. She is committed to socially engaged practices that reflect in multidisciplinary projects she has developed and participated in.
The focus areas of her research extend to projects with arts education, printmaking history and practice, the documentation of living traditions and vernacular arts, and environmental consciousness in the arts.
She initiated and headed the Piramal Residency Artist Incubator Programme 2019-20 and is currently leading the Sunaparanta Arts Initiator Lab, Goa (S.A.I.L) in 2021-22.
Lina is Associate Curator with ARTPORT and selected curatorial projects include:
"TRANSIT - where do we go from here", group exhibition at Bikaner House, APRE Art house global, Delhi 2021; 'LICENCE to LAUGH' - humour in the times of the pandemic, Shrishti Gallery, Hyderabad 2020; 'Points of Departure', Piramal residency incubator program show, Mumbai 2019; ‘GOOD FOOD India’ -international arts program for climate-change awareness (2017-18); Story of Space – multidisciplinary public arts festival, Goa (2017); ‘Tabiyat: Medicine and Healing in India’ CSMVS Mumbai (2016-17).
She has curated numerous exhibitions with galleries across India and continues to contribute to publications and symposiums on art history and contemporary cultural practices.
Selected Artworks
Alberto Repetti.
Nicholas Sims.
Emily Klima.Alberto Repetti
Alberto Repetti’s imagery reflects intense articulations of space and atmosphere,
that are both sensorial and otherworldly. He captures essences of movement
and vibration, particularly in his Cloud depictions – the quality of line draws the eye inward and through an evocative visual journey.
Repetti’s engagement with the surface, whether it is with rapid ball point sketches or more complex layered painting, is deeply gestural, and produces a sense of energy shared with the viewer. As an artist and creator, he remains open to multiple modes of expression and art making.
Conceptually, he finds meaning in interpreting reality through multidimensional perspectives, that give relevance to both fact and fantasy.
Nicholas Sims
Nicholas Sims responds with empathy and immediacy to people he encounters.
An artist seemingly attuned to exploring psychological connections, his portraits showcase an intrinsic ability to grasp an emotional state or transitory expression through quick sketches.
These are usually made with graphite pencil or water colours. The faces he chooses to draw are of mundane individuals, engrossed in their own mental and physical planes.
It is a representation of reality that questions social hierarchies, and attempts to give space to those who might be overlooked or left anonymous in life’s race.
Sims also captures landscapes and architectural scenes with great faculty, offering viewers subtle yet memorable impressions of place and atmosphere.
Emily Klima
Emily Klima’s artwork embodies the artist’s fluid responses to her internal and external worlds. Seamlessly integrating forms, textures, colours and linear elements in organic configurations, the artist’s vivid compositions nevertheless tell stories, wide open to interpretation.
Klima enjoys the freedom that abstraction allows, as her personal experiences and everyday myths are transformed through the act of painting and collaging, creating immersive and graphic spaces.
The pictures come alive with multiple meanings and emotions, as she explores the complex relationships between order and chaos— control and abandon.
In a process of journaling through spontaneous abstraction, Klima is also constantly questioning conventional systems of representation.