next exhibition:

past exhibitions:

30.06.24 – 02.07.24 San Pacifico Church, Büyükada (Princes› Islands), Istanbul

10.06.24 – 14.06.24 Group Show, Partinet, Krim, Ukraine

31.05.24 – 02.06.24 Group Exhibition, Saint Petersburg, Russland

31.05.24 Le Salon, Krone Couronne, Obergasse 1, Biel

21.05.24 – 25.05.24 Galerie Corrado Bortone, 13 Rue Mazarine, 75006 Paris

21.03.24 – 24.03.24 Biennale d’Art Arpadi, l’Esplanade du Lac à Divonne-les-Bains, France

08.03.24 – 17.03.24 Galleria Mac Miradoli Arte Contemp., Alzaia Naviglio, 54, 20144 Milano, Italia

08.02.24 – 14.02.24 Material, Book and Art Space, Klingenstrasse 23, 8005 Zürich

24.11.23 – 26.01.24 Galerie16b, Ausstellungsstrasse 16, 8005 Zürich

28.04.22 – 07.05.23 La Chapelle St-Nicolas, Rue du général de Gaulle, Châteaugiron, France

14.04.22 – 07.05.23 Protagonisti del Tempo d’Arte II, Museo del Cedro, Santa Maria del Cedro, Italien

26.07.22 – 20.01.23 Galerie 16b, Ausstellungsstrasse 16, 8005 Zürich

29.06.22 – 20.08.22   Galerie Nù, Windowgalerie, Limmatstrasse 212, Zürich

08.07.22- 19.08.22 Galerie 16b, Ausstellungsstrasse 16, 8005 Zürich

07.05.22 – 22.05.22 KreatYv, Jonastrasse 13, 8636 Wald, ZH

01.05.22 – 21.05.22 Virtual-Exhibition at Spongleheim, United Kingdom

28.02.22 – 03.03.22 Material, Kulturraum, Klingenstrasse 23, 8005 Zürich

26.11.21 – 21.01.22 Galerie 16b, Ausstellungsstrasse16, 8005 Zürich

12.11.21 – 04.12.21 FEM-NET.Art Galerie, Dorfstrasse 9, 8037 Zürich

30.09.21 – 10.01.21 Photobastei, Unabhängiges Museum der Photografie, Sihlquai 125, 8005 Zürich

Mitglied der Association Espace Artistes Femmes www.espaceartistesfemmes.com

Mitglied Artischock Kunstverein

works

Collage Works out of my drawings on Forex.

Aquarel and Oil Pastel on canvas panels

the postcards 14,8×10,6 cm

ART as a playful Pursuit – a new approach.

My paintings are created intuitively.
Although I consciously turn away from realistic depictions, recognizable forms emerge during painting. I often take these and deform, decompose or partly paint them over again with further abstract forms, colors as well as luminosity or design. Sometimes though, I let what is supposed to come. Then it has a legitimate place in the painting. I found this interplay between the figurative and more expressive abstraction and almost sketchy representations exciting. Due to the dynamically positioned elements, the overall appearance resembles a narrative. It allows the observer to savor the infinite horizon of its own fantasy and at the same time to interpret its own story.

The overpainting, deformation and decomposition of the forms by hand brings something liberating with it and the connection to my heartbeat most clearly, as if I wanted to break the ‹forms›, resp. limitations, that I have imposed on myself. And so I create a whole new story.

I live and work in Zürich, 2022.

Yolanda Di Fede

My paintings are created intuitively.

I paint people and experiences. However, I do not strive to create images and «paint» them as realistically as possible. I make visible what remains hidden from the eye of others, but is important to me. Without rating. That’s why I do not paint portraits, they are rather caricaturistic depictions of people. I perceive a gesture or hand movement or the gaze of a person and so it appears in my paintings. It happens by itself. Transcendent. 

It may well happen, purely by chance, that the people in my paintings resemble the real people, but perhaps one recognizes oneself only by the gestures, the posture or by a certain striking features. 

My paintings are to be understood symbolically. Only from the interplay between different characters, as they are positioned in the picture, through gestures or the gaze, that it creates a whole picture. At the same time, this creates a dynamic that seduces the observer to take a closer look at the image. The spontaneous, but often also dominant presence of individual colors have an additional narrative function, on the one hand luring the observer into the picture and then triggering the most diverse reactions and associations. The pictures are decorative, often striking due to the dominant coloring.  

Sometimes the messages in my images are subtle and delicate, but can also be quite direct and aggressive. Touching and rousing.  

I offer the viewer the opportunity to deal with various human, sometimes difficult, topics. When you face a topic, you heal it at the same time. Transformation. 

«So if I manage to touch as many people as possible with my painting in order to counter the sometimes rugged, dark and a large emergency industry for insecure people with a world of new hope, then I have achieved my goal». Mystical and healing. 

I live and work in Zürich, Yolanda Di Fede, 2021