So close, so far

The importance of looking and seeing the different aspects of reality

 img credit: Dandelions in danger - oil on canvas  76 x 51 cm by Luana Stebule (UK)

img credit: Dandelions in danger - oil on canvas 76 x 51 cm by Luana Stebule (UK)


How many times has it happened to see things from just one point of view, a limited vision of existence, closed and trapped behind a lens, without having the courage to explore the new meanings of a wider picture? The group exhibition “So close, so far” examines the importance of looking and seeing from different aspects of reality, creating new understandings that only a careful viewer can catch and appreciate. From afar, one can see and admire the entire work, like a landscape seen in all its majesty and complexity. Going closer and deeper, one can observe and discover the details and secrets that the image contains, like the bark of trees or the light streaming through the leaves. The exhibition will accompany the visitor on a journey where space becomes an opportunity to get lost in the details of the artworks and time is expanded by the perception of the viewer. Near and far are two sides of the same coin. Though sometimes foreign and distant, both play equally meaningful parts in the realization of that one side is not enough.

Curator Cristina Madini

Artists: Kimberly Adamis (USA), Brian Avadka Colez (USA), Donia Baqaeen (Jordan), Helga Borbás (Hungary), Car Act Air (France), Carol Carpenter (USA), Laura Casini (Switzerland), Karen Castilho (Hong Kong), Mia Civita (USA), André Colinet (Belgium), Nathanael Cox (USA), Johanna Elbe (Sweden), Ulf Enhörning (Sweden),  Jasmin Genzel (France), GusColors (USA), Wiktoria  Guzelf   (Switzerland), Susumu Hasegawa (Japan), Tondi Hasibuan (Indonesia),  Leena Holmström (Finland), Wioletta Jaskólska (Poland), Corina Karstenberg (The Netherlands), Monika Katterwe (Germany), Kirsten Kohrt (Germany), Chikara Komura (Japan), Agnieszka Konopka (Poland), Alexandra Kordas (Germany), Krista Korjus (Finland), Sybille Lampe (Germany), Fiona Livingstone (Australia), Ewa Martens (Germany), Francis Moreau (France), Frédérique Nolet (Belgium), Aristea Panagiotakopoulou (Greece), Catherine Pennington-Meyer (UK),  Kim Piffy (UK), Sal Ponce Enrile (Philippines), Irena Procházková (Czech Republic), Taru Rouhiainen (Finland), Natalia Schäfer (Germany), Belinha Silva (Portugal), Jens Peter Sinding Jørgensen (Denmark), Luana Stebule (UK), Taka & Megu (Japan), Elina Tammiranta-Summa (Finland), Serina Haratoka Tara (Turqey)