NATHALIE CARRUS - Italie

WHO I AM
I came into the world in Argentina, and opened my eyes to the colors in Morocco, but it was in Paris that I began sculpting at the age of 13 in the garden of the old American Centre with romanian artist Ion Vlad.
I carried on studying in Strasbourg at the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs with the scupltor François Cacheux and completed my course of study in Italy , in Perugia and Murano.
In Murano I worked and planned on spunglass sculptures and designware for years, before I settled in Milan,where I work with architects and landscapers , and on private commissions.

HOW I WORK

I am particularly sensitive to the current news of the world, which is my primary source of inspiration, and especially how we absorb the enormous mass of information we are bombarded without any restraint. This visual information neighborhood, changed our perception of reality.
I am a portraitist and I focus my artistic work on people I place in waiting position, sometimes critical, sometimes poetic. I use metaphors to exalt the alteration of our perception, and focus on the ambiguity of information dissemination to create small realities I mix as a puzzle, constantly evolving.
I adapt the material on the subject to create my pieces, and use various kinds as clay, stone, wood, iron, resin and even fund material and I put colors on my sculptures, a remnant of my classical education made of meetings and collaborations with artists like Mimmo Rotella who taught me to use intelligible symbols and be attached to an immediacy of illustration.

SELECTED EXIBITIONS

2013 : Face to Face Garage Bonci Pietrasanta Italy
2012 :CNART Maison du Barreau Paris France
2010: Galleria Combines Milano Italy
2008: Orea Malia Milano Italy (solo exibition)
2004 : British council gallery Sao Paolo Brazil
2003: Fresh Art Business Design Centre London UK
2002 : Fresh Art Business Design Centre London UK
1995: ArteBa Galleria Boggiano Buenos Aires Argentina
1993: Corning Glass Gallery HD Nick Montpellier France
1992: R von Schlossberg Gallery Southampton USA ( solo exibition) - Galerie Le Carré D'or Paris France
1991: Galerie M. Boulakia Paris France - Galerie trois Genève CH ( solo exibition)