“Charismatica” by Beatrice Brandini
Nathaniel Mary Quinn “Mr Shaw”, 2023
Split Face, a monographic exhibition by Nathaniel Mary Quinn, a very interesting and already very famous artist, especially for his “decomposed” portraits, has opened in Florence (until March 11, 2024).
Nathaniel Mary Quinn “Mama, Joe and James Brown”, 2023
Nathaniel Mary Quinn “Punch-Out”, 2023
Some glimpses of the magnificent Bardini Museum
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The exhibition, curated by Sergio Risaliti and Stefania Rispoli, is the first monographic exhibition of the artist, one of the most disruptive on the international scene, in Italy, and involves the Stefano Bardini Museum and the Novecento Museum, where a series of unpublished paintings are exhibited alongside Renaissance works (Bardini) or twentieth century masters. And it is always interesting how Florence, with all its immense and magnificent artistic history, places itself at the service, a precious and sometimes challenging “background”, for works by great contemporary artists such as Nathaniel Mary Quinn
The artist Nathaniel Mary Quinn
Nathaniel Mary Quinn with Sergio Risaliti curator of the exhibition
Nathaniel Mary Quinn “The Executive Director”, 2019
Quinn breaks down people, faces, challenging the canons of classical beauty, or in any case of portraiture in general, a path already opened by Picasso or Bacon, and which shocks and involves. His faces, almost grotesque, are exceptionally described, in detail and in the psychology / personality of the faces, and which, in reality, have a great emotional tension.
Nathaniel Mary Quinn “After Pontormo’s Portrait of Alessandro de Medici”, 2023
Nathaniel Mary Quinn “The Lottery Ticket”, 2023
Glimpse of the Nathaniel Mary Quinn Split Face exhibition
They are deformed portraits, like many pieces of a collage, united to describe no longer a subject, a face, but a multitude of elements that together make up his personality. The technique used is not simple, to obtain a collage effect he mixes different painting and drawing techniques, such as charcoal, gouache, gold leaf, pastels and oil paint.
Nathaniel Mary Quinn Split Face press conference room inside the Bardini Museum
“Character in green” from my son’s imagination
I am happy with the success of this artist, life was not easy for him (it never is!), but Nathaniel Mary Quinn managed to have social revenge, and above all to live thanks to his talent and his passion . Born in a suburb of Chicago, he graduated in 2000 with a degree in art and psychology, and in 2002 he enrolled at New York University where he graduated with a degree in figurative arts.
“I don’t paint portraits, but what cannot be seen…” Nathaniel Mary Quinn
Good life to everyone!
Beatrice