Giulia Andreani

Catalog published on the occasion of the exhibitions at Labanque, Béthunes (March 9-July 28, 2019), at the Museum of Fine Arts in Dole (October 5 2019-February 2, 2020) and at the Max Hetzler Gallery (September 12-October 31, 2019). In her work, Giulia Andreani reinterprets period photographs but also the collective memory. The artist proposes a painting that reactivates the image photographic, reminiscent of family photos or group images used by Gerhard Richter in his paintings of the 1960s. She explains his work thus: "I look for orphan photographs, which are not exploitable or which often do not have much interest in themselves. They gain then of interest once entered the workshop and immersed in a new developing bath, which is that of my painting." This is therefore the purpose of his pictorial quest: producing a new image by “revelation”, as one dips a silver photo into the developer. In order to revive its canvases of subjects forgotten by history, she uses very diluted paint, with material effects, shadow, flow and permanent erasure. These images are made as monochromes in "Payne's gray", a tint magnetic that evokes daguerreotypes and old photographs. This color unique puts a distance and standardizes the artist's painting. Giulia Andreani operates a reversal and uses painting as “a tool of representation of striking images of history buried because it was considered uncomfortable, problematic" and to which forgotten people are attached. She paints as a result, often women, figures carrying a critical vision such as in his works produced during his residency at the Villa Medici in the year past.