ReDot Fine Art Gallery extremely honoured to be hosting the first ever solo show of paintings in Singapore for Australian artist Victoria Cattoni, who originates from Ingham, in the tropics of north Queensland.
Pinturas marks the first major body of paintings to be exhibited by Victoria Cattoni in over 20 years, in a career which spans back to 1988. Since then, Victoria has worked mainly with the medium of videos, installation and/or performance art. It was until 2011 she decided to return to her roots and the more intimate medium of canvas paintings.
Commenting on the change in 2011, she says:
“The return to painting was a sudden urge – I literally woke one morning and wondered where my oil paints were (which country!) and wanted very much to put paint on canvas. This may seem a rather wide leap from my art practice of the past twenty years – installation, video, performance art – but whose creative path is linear? The urge to paint again, I feel, came from a desire to touch and fashion something with my hands and body; it was perhaps an antidote, and a salve to the digital screen.”
This decision led to her first trip to Portugal, where she spent six weeks at Obras, an arts residency set in the landscape of the Alentejo region, east of Lisbon. She has returned twice to the same residency since and the body of work on exhibition is a collection from these and other residencies over the last 5 years. Whilst Victoria maintains that she never stopped painting, it certainly took a background role to her other practice and she has rarely exhibited this medium until today.
The exhibition begins on Wednesday 21th October September and runs until Saturday 21st November 2015, and will be attended in person by Victoria to share this beautiful body of new works.
For more information, contact us at info@redotgallery.com or (+65) 6222 1039.
When: 21 Oct - 21 Nov 2015, 12PM - 7PM