Chiara Dynys: Insidious Beauty

Valli Art Gallery is pleased to announce its upcoming solo exhibition, presenting a selection of work from internationally regarded multi-media artist, Chiara Dynys. Titled Insidious Beauty, Italian master Dynys is best known for disorienting experiential pieces derived from personal experience and natural phenomena. This will be the artist’s first solo show in America. Insidious Beauty will open November 3 through December 31, 2017 with a reception for the artist Friday November 3, 6-9 pm at 1924 North Miami Avenue, Miami, Florida. Light refreshments will be served and the artist will be in attendance.

Exploring reality, physicality, and the metaphysical, humanity and the variables of perception, Dynys has a long history using eclectic materials, from glass, resin, wax, marble, mirror, ceramics, metal castings, crystal, fabrics, video and photography. Focusing on light and its relationship to vision and space, Dynys reflects upon the body and its reaction to an immediate environment, constant change whether minor or unrecognizable, she encourages her viewer to rediscover their own physicality and mortality, and be altered.

In So Near So Far, Golden Cage and Look Afar, reflective steel and bronze behind gold leaf bars obstruct the viewer’s perspective and visibility, altering and refracting one’s body and the movement around the room, creating a disorienting and unrecognizable reflection..

“I often use the word passage to talk about my work. In fact, what is common to all my work is the sense of the crossing.”

About the Artist:
Chiara Dynys (b.1958 Mantua, Italy) lives and works in Milan, Italy. Her work has been featured prominently throughout her career with in solo and group exhibitions in many important museums and cultural spaces, throughout Italy and Europe. Chiara Dynys work is part of several private and public collections, like: Civiche Raccolte d’Arte, Milano; MART, Rovereto; VAF-­Stiftung, Francoforte; UBS bank, Milan, Manno and Zurich; Intesa San Paolo bank, Milan; Museo Cantonale, Lugano; Kunstasammlung, Weimar; Atel Energia, Milan; ZKM, Karlsruhe; Collezione Panza, Varese; Accademia di Architettura -­ Casa dello Studente, Mendrisio; Terna Energia, Rome; Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Foligno; Mobimo AG, Zurich; RoccoGuglielmo Foundation, Catanzaro; Poldi Pezzoli Museum, Milan; GNAM-­ Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna permanent collection, Rome.
Dynys’ work has appeared in ArtForum, Mousse Magazine, Flash Art and other publications.
About the Gallery:
Valli Art Gallery specializes in promoting great masters of Italian contemporary art in the United States. Programming is focused on 20th-century Italian art movements and the work of artists such as Mimmo Rotella, Giosetta Fioroni, Alberto Biasi, Michelangelo Pistoletto, to the newly emerging contemporary stars.
Valli Art Gallery works closely in collaboration with institutions, public and private museums and international curators, to promote Italian artists.