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<\/p>\nElisa Bertaglia<\/p>\n
SARAHCROWN announces Elisa Bertaglia\u2019s third solo show with the gallery, showcasing her newest series of paintings about rest as an active practice of renewal.<\/p>\n
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Elisa Bertaglia, The Rest, 35.5×25.5 in – 90×65 cm, oil on canvas, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n SARAHCROWN is pleased to announce The Rest, Elisa Bertaglia\u2019s third solo exhibition with the gallery. This new body of work is inspired by the idea of rest not as absence, but as an active practice of regeneration, and continues Bertaglia\u2019s ongoing exploration of thresholds.<\/p>\n In this new series of paintings and drawings, rest becomes presence \u2014 a conscious state where stillness and the suspension of time open space for creativity, offering the energy needed for renewal. As in her earlier series Hic Sunt Dracones and The Dance, the investigation of thresholds (both physical and spiritual) remains central but here, it is expanded: threshold and suspension of time converge to frame rest as a transformative condition. In this state, stillness becomes a fertile ground. Pause holds possibility, and quiet reveals its own depth of vision.<\/p>\n Elisa Bertaglia, Leaves Are Growing From My Body, 6×4 in _ 15.2×10.2 cm, oil on rose gold, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n Prompted by a personal period of forced rest and reflection, Bertaglia investigates the threshold of consciousness itself: the moment in which stillness and transformation coincide and when something enters awareness. At the center of the exhibition \u2014 and marking a new direction in her practice \u2014 are three mid-sized canvases that introduce the fi gure of the bird. Traditionally, birds symbolize spirituality, the soul, and positive transformation \u2014 from renewal and new beginnings to resurrection. All themes that inspired Bertaglia to create this new series of works. Depicted in varying degrees of abstraction, the birds emerge from magmatic backgrounds of dense foliage and imagined fauna. They occupy an atmosphere that is both mysterious and charged. The new palette of deep greens, reds, and purples intensifi es this sense of a liminal, unplaceable space \u2014 a world hovering on the edge of a threshold.<\/p>\n Elisa Bertaglia, The Rest, 35.5×25.5 in – 90×65 cm, oil and pencil on canvas, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n The exhibition also presents three new emblematic works on gold along paintings without animal elements, highlighting the variety of Bertaglia\u2019s approaches. Leaves Are Growing From My Body (2025), for example, a dense carpet of fl owers painted over a rose-gold plate, opens onto a precious, almost baroque dimension: here nature becomes ornament, an overfl owing vitality that alludes to a corporeality in constant metamorphosis. <\/p>\n SARAHCROWN WEB<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0INSTAGRAM<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0ARTSY<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[50,51],"class_list":["post-57290","insights","type-insights","status-publish","hentry","category-insight","category-stories"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"en","enabled_languages":["ko","en"],"languages":{"ko":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/insights\/57290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/insights"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/insights"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/static-edge.kiaf.org\/web\/2025\/12\/05094000\/1-Elisa-Bertaglia-Leaves-Are-Growing-From-My-Body-6x4-in-_-15.2x10.2-cm-oil-on-rose-gold-2024-1.jpg\")
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\nWhat makes Bertaglia\u2019s new work so compelling is its ability to translate profound concepts into imagery that feels immediate and luminous. With these works, she addresses complex themes through images of striking beauty and deceptive simplicity.
\nWith The Rest, Bertaglia offers not an escape from life\u2019s struggles but a reorientation \u2014 an invitation to inhabit time differently, to enter the spaces where stillness and renewal meet.
\nThe opening reception will be held on November 7, 6-8 PM. The exhibition will run until December 6, with an artist walkthrough on November 15, 2-4.<\/p>\n
\n373 Broadway #215 New York, NY 10013.
\n+1 347-393-4911<\/p>\n