Giovanna Biallo has worked in both painting and sculpture since the mid-1990s. The two seemingly different directions in her practice have been shaped by influences and experiences as far removed from one another as Mark Rothko and the abstract colour fields, and Russian avant-garde artists reimaging bourgeois porcelain collectables into revolutionary storytelling for the masses. Yet, both are the result of a slow and painstaking process: of sculpting the canvas (or, at times, paper or gesso board) through meticulous mixing and applications of gradations of colour, and of moulding, assembling, and painting her porcelain sculptures with layers of applied hues and repeated firing. The exhibition brings together abstraction and figuration, exploration of colour as language and the delight in figurative detail – and the exuberance that characterises both bodies of work.  

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