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italiana
11 February – 29 March 2003
Tues-Sat, 11-19.00, closed holidays
Opening Tuesday 11 February, 18.00, at Paolo Curti/Annamaria
Gambuzzi & Co: exhibition of works by the Dutch painter Bart
Domburg.
Born in Zwolle, Holland in 1957, the artist now lives in Berlin and
Amsterdam.
The paintings of Bart Domburg feature images of specific places
with their own historical, religious or personal significance. It
is not possible to observe them as if they were simply landscapes
or views. Looking at them, we have the clear sensation that
something has happened, at a certain time, and that we are not
simply observing a place, but what has happened precisely in that
place.
It’s no coincidence that the artist likes to define these
landscapes as “portraits”. Domburg’s main interest is to grasp and
convey the meaning of places as he discovers them.
The exhibition contains 7 paintings of different sizes, a cycle of
works made especially for this event. Strandbad am groβen Fenster
and Die Pfaueninsel portray what can be seen today from the Wannsee,
on the outskirts of Berlin, once the location of the villas of
leaders of the Third Reich. The two paintings entitled Diaspora
represent a boundless landscape; observing them, we cannot
understand where we are; we could be anywhere. Die Grube shows an
enormous hole, whose whereabouts and depth are unknown to us; it
could be anywhere, or it could be a detail of the landscape of the
Diaspora.
Bart Domburg has shown at the Deutcher Akademischer Austauschdienst
(DAAD) of Berlin in 1998, the Kunsthaus Baselland in Basel and at
the Premio Michetti of Francavilla al mare in 2000.
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