GREEN Veronica
Bio
Veronica Green (1984) is a young New Zealand artist with a mixture of Italian and polish nationality, who is recognized as an evolutionary in the world of abstract figurative art. With the completion of a Fine Arts Honours Degree at Massey University, majoring in Toi Atea: contemporary Maori art and Design she then moved to Venice in which her career took off and her world of the fantastic, mistled its magic into the realm of contemporary art.
Dense and bright colors, shiny materials and a pinch of fluorescent paint, these are the ingredients that allow the New Zealand artist Veronica Green to open up to us the doors of her enchanted world. Once immersed in this magical universe, the symbolic elements and thus the many cultural references will show us the way to decode reality.
A cocktail of cultures coexists in her canvases as in her personal life: Veronica Green now lives and works in Venice, but was born in 1984 in New Zealand to an Italian mother and a Polish father. If disentangling from the different cultures that make up our society is a very complex process in itself, the contemporary globalized world further enriches this cultural background of rooted traditions. In particular, with the development of the new media (television, cinema and the Internet), a global cultural revolution occurred during the last sixty years, where various populations have become increasingly closer and mixed, and where a common popular culture has emerged. In her works, Veronica Green succeeds in synthetizing this lively cocktail of references spectacularly, integrating them into her personal life. Her works are thus developed on different levels both as regards the interpretation of her work and its formal development.
By day, natural areas represented cast us into haunting and deceptive landscapes, taking us to a magical and seductive world. The colors appear, disappear, slide, and the ways forward are varied; but instead of taking us to our destination, they make us bounce on a new unstable and fluctuating ground. The characters of fairy tales or cartoons that inhabit her paintings seem to be the only ones who know the geography and lush maze of these places. Each figurative element, however, has a very precise allegorical function. It may in fact represent a concept or situation: freedom, strength, motherhood, guilt, glamor, travel, risk, etc. These symbols therefore also allow viewers to find their own way. And when night falls, a starry sky emerges from every canvas, introducing another painting that will light the way in times of darkness. So using a symbolic language similar to what we find in the world of fairy tales, the artist speaks of values and culture. Playing with collective imagination, familiar and comfortable, she takes us to places where we have all been to, but that, as adults, we visit no more.
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Exhibitions:
Select | New York, USA | 8th May - 11th May 2014| 135 W. 18th St | New York, USA ( Representing
Galerie Bruno Massa)
SELECT FRIEZE WEEK NEW YORK | GALERIE BRUNO MASSA
Yuki Sis Gallery | Tokyo, Japan | 20th June - 5th July 2014
Nihonbashi Xio Lou 202, 3-2-12, Nihonbashi Honco,Chuoh-ku, Tokyo 103 0023 Japan | (Representing
Galerie Bruno Massa)
YUKI SIS | GALERIE BRUNO MASSA
SoHo Art Gallery | Petits mais Costauds! |Osaka, Japan | 1st - 15th July 2014
Ikutamcho 9-18, Tennojiku | Osaka Japan | (Representing Galerie Bruno Massa)
SoHo Art Gallery | GALERIE BRUNO MASSA
Art Osaka 2014 | Osaka, Japan | 11th - 13th July 2014
Hotel Granvia Osaka |3-1-1 Umeda, Kita-ku, Osaka 530-0001 | (Representing Galerie Bruno Massa)
ART OSAKA | GALERIE BRUNO MASSA
Eyeball Kicks - Prints|Wellington, New Zealand|, 177 Cuba Street, Wellington, New Zealand
(Group Show)
ArtZandra - Prints| Goteborg, Sweden |, Gamla Bjorlandavagen 63, 41721 Goteborg Sweden (Group
Show)
Affordable Art Show New York | New York, USA | 2014 ( Representing Galerie Bruno Massa)
Toronto Art Expo | Toronto, Canada |2014 (Representing Galerie Bruno Massa)
Affordable Art Show Brussels | Brussels, Belgium | 2014 ( Representing Galerie Bruno Massa)
Affordable Art Show Hamburg | Hamburg, Germany|2014 (Group show representing Galerie Georg
Molitoris)
MiART2013 - International Fair of Contemporary Art | Milan, Italy | 2013, (Group Show )
AAF Milano - International Fair of Contemporary Art | Milan, Italy | 2013, (Group Show )
Ego Gallery - L'Era Delle Stelle | Lugano, Switzerland | 2013,(Personal Show)
Imagoars - Art Around the Corner|Venice, Italy|2012, (Collective Show)
Affordable Art Fair Rome - Fiera Internazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea| Rome, Italy |
2012, (Group Show)
ArtVerona - Fiera Internazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea| Verona, Italy| 2012, (Group
Show)
Movimento Arte Contemporanea - "Attese"| Milan, Italy| 2012, (Group Show)
Libreria Bocca - "V edizione del Premio Movimento"| Milan, Italy 2012, (Group Show)
Swab Barcelona - "Fiera Internazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea"| Barcelona, Spain| 2012,
(Group Show representing Movimento Art Gallery)
MiArt|Art Now - "Fiera Internazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea"| Milan, Italy| 2012,
(Group Show representing Movimento Art Gallery
Art Factory 02 - "Fiera Internazion le d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea"| Catania, Italy| 2012,
(Group Show representing Movimento Art Gallery)
Affordable Art Fair Milan - International Fair of Contemporary Art| Milan, Italy| 2012, (Group
Show representing Movimento Art Gallery)
Casa Batllo - Barcelona Showcase International Exhibition of Contemporary Art & Photo,
Barcelona, Spain| 2011 (Group Show)
Art Verona - "Fiera Internazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea" Verona, Italy| 2011 (Group
Show representing Movimento Art Gallery)
Brick Lane - Annexe Gallery "Veronica Green" London, United Kingdom| 2011 (Group Show)
Caos Gallery "Building Invisible Bridges" Venezia, Italy| 2011 (Solo Show
Movimento Art Gallery"Somewhere Under the Rainbow" Milano, Italy| 2011 (Solo Show)
MiArt - "Fiera Internazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea" Milan, Italy| 2011 (Group Show
representing Movimento Art Gallery)
ArtExpo Arezzo - Arezzo, Italy| 2011 (Group Show representing Movimento Art Gallery)
Art Verona - "Fiera Internazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea" Verona, Italy| 2010 (Group
Show representing Movimento Art Gallery)
MiArt - "Fiera Internazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea" Milan, Italy| 2010 (Group Show
representing Movimento Art Gallery)
BAF2010- "Bergamo Arte Fiera 2010" Bergamo, Italy| 2010 (Group Show representing Movimento Art
Gallery)
Movimento Art Gallery - "The Temptress", Milan, Italy| 2009 (Solo Show)
ArtVerona 2009 - "Verona Fiere 2009" Verona, Italy| 2009 (Group Show representing Movimento Art
Gallery)
Melori & Rosenberg Art Gallery - "Atlantis" Venice, Italy| 2009 (Solo Show)
MiArt - "Fiera Internazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea" Milan, Italy| 2009 (Group Show
representing Movimento Art Gallery)
Movimento Art Gallery - "Forbidden Cities" Milan, Italy| 2009 (Solo Show)
Melori & Rosenberg Art Gallery- "Once Upon a Time" Venice, Italy| 2008 (Solo Show)
Galleria il Serraglio - "Inside me I Soar" Florence, Italy| 2008 (Solo Show)
Taverna Dell'Aquila Nera - Giostra della Quintana (Medieval Festival)- "Colombi Santi o
Peccatori?" Foligno, Italy| 2008 (Solo Show)
Aurora St Associazione Culturale - "Colombi Santi o Peccatori?" San Marco Square, Venice,
Italy| 2008 (Solo Show)
Bottega Gallery - "Colombi Santi o Peccatori?" Venice, Italy| 2008 (Solo Show)
Melori & Rosenberg Art Gallery, Venice, Italy| 2008
