Title: Blooming

Venue: Ode to Art Gallery at #01-36E/F Raffles City Shopping Centre

Artist: Annalù (Italian)

Original dates: 9^th – 31^st January 2024

Extended until: 18^th February 2024

Multi-disciplinary Italian artist Annalù is on the brink of unveiling her inaugural solo exhibition in Singapore, showcasing nine captivating new pieces that infuse her vibrant, iconic mandala with an array of diverse mediums.

Entitled Bloming, her exhibition will bring together contrasting elements like resins and paper, bark and glass wool, bitumen and sand, cement and roots, fusing them in her trademark enchanting style to craft new dimensions of color and texture, suspended in dreamlike visions where alchemy meets weightlessness.

Originating from the captivating city of Venice, Annalù’s work is a testament to her extraordinary talent for breathing life into art using an array of mediums such as resins, glass, paper, and more. Her creations beckon us to embark on a journey through time, akin to an evolution, where the form takes on the profound significance of a mandala, and time is magnificently stretched.

What sets Annalù’s artistry apart is the harmonious fusion of fluidity and strength, a potent combination that mesmerizes the beholder. Her work has garnered global recognition, gracing the halls of Italian and foreign museums, and adorning numerous distinguished collections worldwide.

In whimsical arrangements that play with the depth of time and space, Annalù’s mandala designs seem to transcend the constraints of time and form, existing in a metamorphic realm of three-dimensionality. She explains that they are actually “intended to convey an expanded time where the form holds the value of a mandala and the perception of time is expanded.”

Her work exudes a profound lyricism despite its symmetry and almost architectural precision in its curves, spirals, turns, and spikes. They are a testament to her deeply visual-driven nature, evolving in different layers, materials, colors, and forms as she continues to create.

She observes, listens, reflects, and reworks in nature and from nature, resulting in her most visionary creativity. Whirlwinds of exploding butterflies and perpetually bursting water that gush at the observer create micro and macro cosmos that transform forms in a dreamlike and expanded time where anything is possible.

Transparency of resins and opacity of materials such as wood, cement, and iron engage in constant dialogue within her work. Her skill in coaxing these contrasting materials to converse is the irresistible allure that draws the observer in – assembled in different materials in varying compositions. If the resin is a constant vessel, it is due to her passion for the challenge of uniting an element that is so devoid of emotions with an expressive language – art – that is always full of wonder, freshness, and poetry.

About the artist

Annali (A. Boeretto) was born in San Donà di Piave, Venice, in 1976. She lives in her stilt house on the right bank of the Piave river in Passarella di San Donà di Piave, Venice and works at her studio in Jesolo (Venice). A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, she is adept at metamorphosis. Her emblematic “DREAMCATCHERS” are invitations to immerse oneself in reflections, moments of abstraction between suggestion, reality and fantasy, where art is the protagonist. The artist draws her inspiration from nature and ancient Italian techniques. With an almost scientific approach, she attempts to freeze a precise moment in time and space in her three-dimensional works.  Using fiberglass, bark, bitumen, cement and Murano glass, she creates new realities, suspended worlds, and imaginary architectures where the alchemy is lightness. Annali’s works can be found in public and private collections in Italy and abroad.