The Otter Gallery International present Letizia Zombory Art
The Otter Gallery founded in 2018 has been inspired by various art experiences from all around the world. The electric pulse of art walks across Wynwood Miami’s art district, the blossoming murals of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, the historical Street-Art from Berlin, London’s upbeat “artsy hood” Shoreditch, and the countless artistic encounters forged our DNA. The abundance of talented emerging artists deserving much more visibility has given us our purpose. Today, following a creative pandemic break our concerns have shifted. We eventually found our new digital purpose in empowering, emerging and established, artists with blockchain technology to create, build and develop a sustainable digital or hybrid career.
Letizia Zombory, the genuine colourist, is a Dutch artist who unlocks the power of colours to narrate artistic intentions. An award-winning, member of the Academia, painter who lives and works in Italy. Letizia was featured in multiple publications in London and across Italian magazines. She enjoyed many group exhibitions in Florence, Rome, Vatican, Monte Carlo, Innsbruck, Vienna, London, Stockholm, and Miami. Letizia best expresses her talent in a quest for the deepest inner soul of her subjects. Translated to the canvas, her strokes delicately depict the blur between reality and the surreal, climaxing in the visible expression of what is hidden. Her paintings are invitations to immerse in a fairy tale that only she can paint.
Artist’s statement: “In my paintings, I am always searching for the inner soul of a theme. A soul, a face, a hidden truth. The image can be either reality or surreal. The image has to belong to the theme and the hidden must be expressed, by any means necessary. I am always looking for the feelings of people, landscapes, and inanimate objects.” Letizia hypnotizes us into a dream, embarking us on an endless journey where realistic figuration is abandoned, where perspective reels you into another dimension, but where the voyage guarantees you to reach your deepest emotions. The artist has been broken many times by hardships, but her soul has never died.
In her artwork called “Il Ritrovamento del Sole Perduto” Letizia brings melody and movement using a variety of colours. One can almost hear the music to which the protagonists are dancing. It is comparable to a scene at the Opera. Indeed, the artwork has been part of the 2014 Royal Art in the World exhibition under the Royal Opera Arcade Gallery London. The tableau’s power of attraction -powered by the representation of the goddess of the sun- is immense and It is hard to look away from it. There is something mythological lingering through her painting, blending in with poetry and a certain romanticism.
Art critic, G. Trotta, says “Zombory stands at the border of the Naive, the Expressive and Formal surrealism through a clear message of the image. She plays with the colour and blends, bringing out her personality of a free woman. It is dissolved in her features, graphics, its brushwork is instinctive and without reconsideration, brought to a personal balance”. Her artistic themes are the history of ancient Rome, the history of Venice, the story of people like Casanova, Cesar and Cleopatra, Nero, and many others. She says: “In my Venice series, I want to show a less well-known image of this wonderful city, an image that has not been painted during the centuries. I am a little ironic and playful, but so is this city too, always different, and incomprehensible. Everything revolves around the gondolas that have grown into half-human beings. I also wanted to show my love and humility for this wonderful city. My Rome series tells the story about the Majestic capital of the old, the lost World with her glamorous palaces, great emperors and the common people. This tale is about the Eternal City that is nowadays just as colourful pulsating, majestic and eternal as it ever was.”
Letizia Zombory also brilliantly practices techniques that could validate her membership in the family of expressionists. Her ability to use various techniques in one artwork is what gives her works such depth. Her work called “Venezia Maestosa” deserves great attention to identify and depict the various techniques. This exact same technique allows her to reach shades of yellow, which are almost as unique as the Bleu de Klein, which brings such intensity and light. One could easily pretend to admire the scene from the balcony of a Venetian Palazzo.
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Article edit by Andras Lacko
