Ambassador of Italy to Qatar, H E Alessandro Prunas (right), and Italian artist Sabrina Puppin at the opening of “Pop-up” exhibition organised by the embassy at the Eiwan Al Gassar, St. Regis Hotel in Doha. Pic: Salim Matramkot/The Peninsula
Doha: The Italian Embassy yesterday launched “Pop-up”, a solo exhibition featuring 140 conceptual art pieces created by Italian artist Sabrina Puppin to mark Italian Contemporary Art Day.
The Contemporary Art Day, celebrated this year on December 5, is the major annual event promoted by AMACI - Association of Italian Museums of Contemporary Art. In the collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the Italian Embassies, Consulates and Cultural Institutes abroad have organized from December 5 to 11 exhibitions, events and initiatives for the enhancement of contemporary Italian art and culture.
“We are very lucky because we managed to organize a very nice exhibition with a very good artist who happens to be in Doha. Sabrina lives between Doha, New York and Italy and she happens to be in Doha at the time we celebrate Italian Contemporary Art Day and she was kind enough to participate in this event with some artworks that are absolutely stunning,” said Ambassador of Italy to Qatar, H E Alessadro Prunas while speaking to local media at the exhibition launch.
Running until tomorrow at Eiwan Al Gassar at The St. Regis Doha, “Pop-up” exhibition can be seen in several perspectives, one is that it is an event presented for a short span of time and another is with the way how the colours seem to pop-up from the paintings exhibited, explained the ambassador.
Prunas said the embassy has plans to present a rich cultural programme for 2021 once the COVID-19 situation gets better. Speaking about the inspiration behind her artworks on show, Puppin said: “It is in big part experimentation with media because I experimented on different surfaces with ceramic paint. The other part is coming from my painting on the perception of reality.”
The artist said that for this exhibition she created artworks that don’t represent anything that could be called reality and see how viewers interpret them, a concept that she started years back.
An internationally exhibited artist, Puppin has featured in numerous exhibitions in different countries such as USA, Qatar, Russia, Germany, China and India. Her work is held in collections in Argentina, Ecuador, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Qatar, Russia, Switzerland, the UK, and the USA. She was selected as artist in residence at the Qatar pavilion at the Expo 2015 in Milan, Italy.
