Artmedia Gallery has displayed again works made by artists José Diniz, Stephan Göttlicher and Magüi Trujillo. The gallery is proud to gather them together in its summer offer, the exhibition Nature & Landscape, Posing a question. For several weeks these works will be on view to provide our visitors an intense aesthetic experience and contribute to the discussion about nature and landscape as notions related to visual representations.

Photographs from two different series by Brazilian photographer José Diniz have been included in the exhibition. Nocturnas is represented by a short collection of atmospheric, allusive, and suggestive seascapes (2) and landscapes (2). In Nocturnas, Diniz displays radical subjective appropriations of the natural environment. Differently, in Maresia he doesn’t produce seascapes in the strict sense, even though some of his pictures can be classified into this category. In other words, he preferably explores the sea as a sort of stage of human actions. In his photos from this series, most of them taken inside the water, the sea is a natural element with which people come into contact and live the physical performance of the movement, the immersion, the instability. Maresia is a joyful representation of interactions between human beings and nature.

Two pictures made by German photographer Stephan Göttlicher inside the forests of Trentino-Alto Adige, in northern Italy, are part of the exhibition. They are examples of his series Wanderlust, in which he applied a contemporary artistic strategy at taking advantage of the defect of a damaged vintage camera, a 1983 Fujica GS 645. The blurred, hazy lighting that hangs over these photographs, as well as the emotional dimension they evoke, connect them to German landscape representations from Romantic painting to Pictorial photography.

Magüi Trujillo, in her series The Breathe of the Wind, explores nature, rather than a reason for landscape, as a space for her spiritual searching through visual means. Accordingly, she conceives nature as a container and source of her interior self-portraits. Then, her work has a visual look associated with the landscape but lays on the artist’s motivation to reveal her deeper self. Two polyptychs from this series complete the selection of works exhibited in Nature & Landscape, Posing a question.

About the artists

These three artists have exhibited individually before at Artmedia Gallery. Internationally recognized photographer José Diniz presented his exhibition Disquieting Force from September 13 to November 24, 2013.  Stephan Göttlicher was the artist of Wanderlust, on view from May 27 to August 26, 2016. Recently, from February 21 to May 3, 2019, Magüi Trujillo gathered at the gallery the works of her project The Breath of the Wind.

About the curator

José Antonio Navarrete lives and works in Miami, Florida. He is a critic, researcher, and independent curator of culture and visual arts, with an extensive written production, who recently began to practice photography and video. His last published book was Escribiendo sobre fotografía en América Latina. Antología de textos 1925-1970, edited by Centro de Fotografía, Montevideo, in 2018.

About the gallery

Artmedia Gallery was founded in 2012. With a location in Little River, Miami, Florida, the gallery has the mission to exhibit and promote contemporary art. One of the gallery’s central objectives is to explore the vast possibilities of the expanded notion of art through media technology, with photography and video as its core interest.