Brian Lotti

park life - berlin exhibition

Yes. Finally. Berlin's HVW8 Gallery opens its doors next week for Brian Lotti's first-ever solo exhibition in Germany.

Park Life / Opening: April 27, 2017 7–10pm / the show's on display between April 28 – June 17, 2017 / HVW8 Gallery, Linienstr. 161, Berlin

“These paintings have been created in the studio through a process of distillation and color mixing based on memory, photographs and sketches. Form, figure and color compose Lotti’s palette. As in the works of David Hockney, the figures are the subject of the paintings as much as the colors and locations are. A student of color and texture, Lotti offers the viewer a dreamscape in which to enter: oranges and purples meet rather than collide; swimming pool scenes offered in both day and night render the subject immutable; tennis players run on pink and blue courts with violet mountains in the distance; surfers ride crisp and deep blue waves with a hot orange beach in the foreground. Figures are wrapped by broad patches of fuzzy color and structure that evoke movement and rhythm.

If part of the modern experience is the feeling that one occupies many places at one time, then we have Lotti to thank for spending his days and nights studying these encounters. His appreciation of the different shades, tints and tones that wash over us everyday manifests itself in the work composed for ‘PARK LIFE’. Individuals seem to inhabit a ruminating space in these paintings where the landscapes and light act as both diversion and co-conspirator.“