HOGCHESTER ARTS

Maddalena Zadra is a London-based Italian artist who works across painting, drawing, printmaking, and textile based installations.

 

Zadra’s work touches upon aspects of the tactile and the sensual whilst remaining playful through subtly contrasting vulnerability and eroticism. Referencing a variety of cultures and historical aesthetics, she explores symbolic meaning and storytelling in her practice, creating multi-layered, open scenarios. 

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The artist often integrates different ways of mark making and its relationship with surface, exploring the limits of collage, drawing and print, and inviting audiences to explore their own understanding around the flexibility of painting, and the possibilities of craftsmanship. 

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Zadra, with her work, is trying to create a way of narrating and representing feelings and moments, a bit like poetry. Varying between colour combinations, forms and shapes she likes to play in subtle ways with the viewers’ emotions created by movements of figurative forms and direct mark making that refers to cave art and pure drawings.

 

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Selected Solo Exhibitions

The End of Summer Lights, Anderson Contemporary, London (2021)

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Selected Group Exhibitions

Between Dog and Wolf, Parlour, London, UK (2022)

Cromologia. Percorsi asincroni nell’arte e nella cultura trentina, Cles, IT (2022)

Collection 03, Felt Collections, London, UK (2022)

Myths of Observation, Hales Gallery, London, UK (2022)

If these Walls could Talk, London, UK (2022)

Hard as Nails, Quench Gallery, Margate, UK (2022)

N.43, Atelier LK, London, UK (2021)

ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, UK (2020)

 Cats Mother, Her, She, Organhaus Gallery, Chongqing, CN (2019)

 FBA Futures, Mall Galleries, London, UK (2019)

Platform Graduate Award, The De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, UK (2018)

Recent Graduates, Affordable Art Fair, London, UK (2018)

Look, Freelands Foundation, London, UK (2018)

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