Galleria Monteoliveto

NICE (France) - Monteoliveto Gallery is pleased to announce the solo exhibition painting/ sculpture of Aurore LANTERI, opening February 16 at 6 p.m.Graduated from the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg (Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin), Aurore Lanteri, born in Nice, 1986, lives and continues her artistic career in Strasbourg. Following her recent exhibition "Round 2 after Nicolas de Leyde" at the Museum of the Oeuvre Notre-Dame de Strasbourg, the artist is back in Nice, her hometown with Grotesques, paintings and sculptures to narrate a path whose starting point, a work essentially pictorial slides to sculpture imposing  "both as a desire for understanding and control of the form through an aperture in the field of space, and as a new approach of polychrome, seen not as decoration, but as a character. "The exhibition presents a series of large format paintings realized with wax focused on a new approach and uninhibited to colour. An innovative technique, leading the artist to colour and to the work of volume through the contact of the hand to the material: beeswax is melted, mixed with pigments and then cooled in thin sheet on a plastic film and pieces of these colour sheets are placed by hand on the media or simply glued or melted.Besides paintings are exhibited the "big heads", both identic and singular, moulded with the same elastomer, where the material and polychrome work gives to each figure his own character. In the whole work, the figure is central. Without any answer, it asks the human in what strange and inscrutable is under his poses, his discourses and his grimaces. In her works one finds a matierist work reminiscent of Alberto Giacometti sculptures and a reminder to the larval forms of some hybrid portraits or self-portraits, huge distorted heads, wandering in an undefined space of Georg Baselitz. Aurore Lanteri plays with volumes to go beyond the word, the thought, the concept. Her sculptures can be somewhat reconciled with the busts and heads of man and woman made in the fifteenth century by the sculptor Nicolas de Leyde to whom refers the exhibition Round 2, après Nicolas de Leyde  in the Oeuvre Notre-Dame, museum of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
“Aurore Lanteri est dans cette exposition celle qui manipule les déterminants les plus directs de la sculpture. Apparemment aucun problème au premier regard sur ses œuvres pour convoquer des références intemporelles. (...) On pourrait dire "sculpture polychrome", mais en considérant que le volume et la couleur qui ont depuis le moyen âge suivi des trajectoires divergentes viennent de se rencontrer sur une exo planète où la gravitation et les matières sont à reconsidérer. (Extraits du texte de présentation de Jean-François Gavoty. École des Arts décoratifs de Strasbourg) 
To complete the exhibition a few watercolours and bas-reliefs worked in negative. The forms are in fact realized on reverse in an earth plate, then drawn in plaster or concrete, dyed and sometimes painted. These realizations give rise to raw, grotesque representations, almost naive, such as the Philosopher that reminds Limbour crustacé by Jean Dubuffet.
Between 2010 and 2012, Aurore Lanteri has exhibited at the Museum of l’Oeuvre Notre Dame in Strasbourg for the Museum Night, at the Zoological Museum of Strasbourg, at the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs of Strasbourg, at Guebwiller, at the Espace Apollonia in Strasbourg. In July 2010 she has created a public sculpture commissioned by the City of Strasbourg for Summer Docs, then in October the enlargement of a piece of the ceramist Louis Buecher in Boersch.  Aurore Lanteri is in the world of art since 2004: after the International Baccalaureate Italian Arts option in 2004 at the Centre International de Valbonne, she follows the preparatory class at the Applied Arts School Lycée Diderot in Lyon (2004/2005), then BTS Fashion Design at the School of Applied Arts Duperré in Paris (2005/2007). During her studies in Strasbourg,  she starts a professional activity  as plasticienne for children in the areas of Strasbourg artistic workshops with Arachnima Association; then in 2010 she follows a stage at the Opéra National du Rhin in Strasbourg and in 2011 a stage for enlargement with pantograph with the sculptor Lionel Auvergne in Paris.
During this period the artist is part of Gestalt Boulevard, a collective of five sculptors from the Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg (with Nelson Doutres, Robin Godde, Raphaël Petitprez, Julien Rey) with the aim of making sculpture "to blossom" with the realization of large-scale sculptures such as La tête de girafe, polystyrene resin (3.20 x 2.00 mt) and Le rhinocéros, black concrete (1.80 x 3.00 mt), 2010, garden museum Théodore Deck, Guebwiller.
On the occasion of the opening festivities of the Carnival of Nice, Aurore Lanteri is again exhibiting with Galleria Monteoliveto, seven years after her first photo exhibition Insolitamente Paris at Espace Monteoliveto Naples, Italy, with an arts curriculum very interesting for such a young artist.