NINA SILVEBERG - HOMESICK

MONTI8 is thrilled to announce ‘Nina Silverberg -Homesick’, first solo show of the Italian/American artist Nina Silverberg, which will open on May 7th and will be included in Contemporanea, the Rome gallery weekend.
On this occasion Nina Silverberg, who has been living in London for many years years, reflects on the idea of home. Exhibiting for the first time in her native place, Rome, this connection
with the city is underlined by subjects that represent urban landscapes and especially views of roofs depicted with a simple as well as a poetic approach in painting. In the essay for the show, Maria Vittoria Pinotti wrote about her practice:
‘Silverberg’s canvases are extremely simple and spontaneously naive. In this painting reduced to the essential and devoid of artifice, the tones are modulated through a few earthy juxtapositions, laid out in precise fields, almost as if applied by a flat stamping tool focused on tone. The space is geological, meaning it explores the development of forms over time, ultimately creating a stable tension between stillness and their potential transformation. For the painter, the history of images has solidified, and this orderly essentiality governs stone-
like scenarios where houses are frozen in the hardness of their matter, and raindrops fall on their roofs like the tips of sharp spears.
In this absurd sensibleness, things become truer than truth itself, because their most primitive and radical aspect is revealed – as if every view were being seen for the first time.
Each scene holds a strange truth that is neither natural nor real, for in this formal nakedness lies the origin of everything, bringing us closer to its bones.’
With a new body of nine works, the absence of the human figure reminds at some themes which are peculiar in Nina Silverberg’s painting, such as isolation and the relationship
between the inner self and the external world.
The exhibition will take place in the main gallery space at via degli Ausoni 57 and will be on view through June 11th. It will be accompanied by a text by Maria Vittoria Pinotti.