Nature has always been loved and recorded by artists. Long and Fulton, the protagonists of Land Art, have rediscovered the direct encounter with the world: the fascination of a long walk in the heart of the countryside, the reality and the vision of concrete contact, unmediated, with the presence of the primordial earth. Land Art, and in particular Richard Long and Hamish Fulton, have made an artistic revolution renouncing the traditional means of representation, immersing themselves in direct contact with the light, earth, water, air and the endless forms of the wind. Art as the essence of an experience, not a representation of this.

De Primi Fine Art, with this exhibition, is pleased to pay homage to the choice made by these important members of the Land Art to go beyond the technological barriers to return to the communion with nature.

De Primi Fine Art is pleased to present the exhibition Florence Henri: photographs and photomontages, 1928 -1938. For the occasion we will show twenty works by the artist, some of which have helped to define the concept of "new vision" and become true icons of modernity.

Florence Henri, (1893-1982) was born in New York from a French father and German mother. She was formed in Europe in the international artistic circles; at the beginning, she studied piano and then devote herself to painting and photography.

Women with a strong and unconventional character, is known to be as the artist who used the medium of photography in a new way, moving it away from the realistic photographic image, and elevating its status to a major art. Her photographic creations, always elegant, are the result of continuous research and mise-en-scène. Florence Henri experienced the technique of photomontage, using a variety of lens, the negative printing associated to the positive, the superposition of images, the use of mirrors to distort the perspectives and many other innovative techniques . Thanks to her special approach, his subjects, ranging from portraits to still life, from nude to the landscape, are always original and innovative.

De Primi Fine Art is pleased with this exhibition to pay tribute to the genius of expression and freedom of a woman symbolizing the avant-garde of the twentieth century.

(Immagini © Galleria Martini & Ronchetti, Genova)

The De Primi Fine Art SA gallery is delighted to announce an exhibition dedicated to the work of the celebrated Italian old master Gaspar Lopez, known as ‘Il Gasparro’ (circa 1650 – 1740). The exhibition opens on 17 November 2010 at the gallery in Piazza Cioccaro 2, Lugano.

The exhibition continues the gallery’s ambitious program aimed at promoting the dialogue between artists and artworks which, whilst coming from different periods and styles, are united by their unquestionable quality .

Gaspar Lopez was a major figure in Italian still life painting, working in both Naples and Florence and this is the first ever retrospective show of his work, making it a fascinating and delightful occasion for lovers of this style of painting.

The works on show- still lifes with flowers- offer us the chance to appreciate the quality of this artist’s work and to comprehend the enormous influence he had on the whole array of painters who followed after him (with results which never quite reached the same heights!) in this art of painting the much-loved subject of floral still lifes.

The works range from his early period to his fully mature period, where we can see his skilful elaboration of the Rococo influence.

Ruins, columns, vases and plates, often with Putti, are covered and used to create floral settings typical of a culture where a frivolous and light-hearted aesthetic was absolutely predominant. The attention to detail in describing the various kinds of flowers became an exercise in painterly skill, a test where Il Gasparo was quite happy to challenge the masters of the previous century.

The catalogue is curated by Professor Alberto Cottino, renowned expert in the field of the Italian Still Life. As well as the works on show, the catalogue contains other images from major museums and private collections, which give us the possibility to compare works and deepen our understanding of an old master who has until now been somewhat neglected by critics.