ABSTRACT LANDSCAPES
The artist abandons the classical duo “form & image” to set her artworks more and more free, linked only to materia by a genetic process. The painting technique and the usual materials disappear increasingly in order to make way for new experiences.
This is how the fascinating world of creation comes together in front of our eyes. It resembles, very closely, the formation through the geological eras: in the small of her studio Ester repeats the same procedure that nature continually implements in the making of universe. Her artworks come to life through unusual combinations of materials that blend and separate in a game of chemical reactions. Like this, she re-builds new landscapes according to nature.
LANDSCAPES
While painting en plein air, Ester Negretti soon realized that using oil paints makes the gaze stop on the surface. Instead, she wants to invite the spectator not to stop at the image but to dig, to look deeply.
So, she started to gather materials on every place that inspired her: fabrics, sand, paper… she even uses the newspaper of the day with the specific purpose of telling the story of the site, its traditions and its people. The foreground of these landscapes is enriched with materials that invite the gaze beyond the canvas.
SAIL
This series dedicated to boats, tells through primary colors about happy moments, but it also plays with the symbol of freedom that sailing boats represent.
Observing the movement of the gestures, the materials and the colors, it seems to feel even the sound of the waves breaking, the smell of the saltiness, the blue air that caresses the face and the sand under the feet. All the five perceptive senses are thus involved.
Lake
The landscapes of the lake are glimpses from the soul of the places that they represent. This is where nature sends transversal messages to involve us into the depths of our existence, until we understand that there is no separation between humanity and nature.
INDUSTRIAL
IMPRINTS
Imprints could be compared to a series of portraits of individuals who have lost the need to be represented through the outward appearance and, therefore, become deliberately abstract signs.
The prints are thus an invitation to the viewer to go further, not to stop at the surface, to the recognizable objectivity that identifies them, but to go straight and without distraction to the totality of which everyone is part of… the essence.
FIGURES 2014 – 2016
FIGURES 2004 -2010
The subjects vary from the face to the human figure that, as time goes on, disappear to make room for what Negretti calls Essenza.
While landscapes relate to human relationships, for Negretti, figures are an introspective gaze, a reflection of ourselves.
ABSTRACT
The compositional work based on the cartesian axes takes voice, more than ever, in this series of artworks entitled new geometries. The shapes explode, deflagrate one into the other by osmosis and matter gives life to the composition, while gold illuminates and fixes the ambivalence of structure. An apparent casual gesture is naturally controlled in its smallest details, as we do moving in the world overcoming or breaking down the obstacles of life.
3D PAINTING
Polymaterial totems saturated with painting, where shapes, colors, materials, lights and sounds interact with the surrounding reality, revealing its essence. Layered, burned and sculpted, the matter becomes the epidermis of sculpture through a painting that pushes the image to be reborn from its rubble.
A work based on the possible communicability between human beings. For Negretti, every sculpture is a “portrait” that deconstructs itself, a man who needs no longer his own identity, or any mask; an individual who, without an image, becomes an informal sign, pure Essence.
TAPESTRY
About the idea of recovering historical pieces and bringing them to a new life, this series of tapestries is a work of dialogue between past and present.
EXPO 2015 “FEEDING THE PLANET, ENERGY FOR LIFE”
The main question concerns the possibility of ensuring a good, healthy, sufficient and sustainable diet for all humanity. Obviously various problems arise, related to the way on how man, especially in the last century, has intervened on nature, forgetting that the balance between resources and consumption is far from being achieved.
With a special focus on the theme of Expo (Life, Energy, Nutrition, Environment, Ecology), the cycle of these artworks concentrates on the respect of nature and the urgent need of recycling raw materials.
INSTALLATIONS
As words and music meet in a song, artist and place in some way choose each other, the one calls the other by clues of identity.
AUSTRALIA
Artworks from 2003 to 2005. Ester worked on this series during a trip to Australia and also on her return. Particularly noteworthy are the works inspired by the bark of the phantom tree: a white wood that shows traces of life experiences. From this point new geometric abstracts will be born and the series of imprints will be prelude.