Collezione Maramotti presents Field, the first solo exhibition in Italy by English artist Phoebe Unwin, featuring a series of new paintings made specifically for its Pattern Room.

The title of the show holds many different connotations. The “field” could be a landscape, but also a color field, or the field of vision. It is an in-between place, a traditional subject in painting, which allows the artist to hover between figuration and abstraction, to investigate the formal aspects of her medium. Investigating the concept of landscape and how the human figure interacts with its surroundings, Unwin uses painting to construct a delicate alternation of horizons, whose varying distances elicit different paces of observation. The layered, porous surface of her works and hazy depiction of her subjects also generate a dynamic kind of vision within each painting, and an intimate link between the works.

The starting point for the entire project is a painting from 2017, Approach, which shows a suspended encounter between two people; here and there, their outlines blur into the landscape, which is thus moulded by perception.

Unwin invites us to reflect on the complexity of small, seemingly trivial moments, while she probes and pushes the boundaries of painting as a means of expression.

Rather than drawing inspiration from photographs, or from the sea of images that flow through the web, the artists works from personal memories or from the drawing pads where she sketches her everyday life.

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