Nata Nata

Nata is a contemporary artist, born in 1955 in Udine, Italy. From Emilio Vedova, his mentor at the Academy of Arts in Venice, he inherited the inclination for doing things in a big way, “on the first try,” with no second thoughts. In Nata’s opinion, painting either must be performed on impulse, or it does not exist at all. But anyone who knows his current works should not find it difficult to see their forerunners in Relicta. In 1985 he moved to Milan where he met the art critic Giovanni Testori who was the first interpreter of Nata and responsible for giving the title Relicta to this entire cycle of works. In the disheveled forms of Relicta, Testori glimpsed allusions to the 1976 earthquake in Friuli Venezia Giulia along with a vaguely medieval severity combined with this reference to a not so distant past. It is no surprise the author of Ambleto (a deliberately distorted rewriting of Shakespeare) allowed himself an impassioned comment: works like these best summarized his idea of art as an existential declaration. He stated he was disconcerted by the “incestuously mixed nature” of Relicta. He noticed signs of a tragic religiosity, and was impressed by the ability to join that atmosphere of ruin with a hidden, throbbing energy.
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SELECTED ONE-MAN EXHIBITIONS

2015 Town Hall Theatre (foyer) Portogruaro, Venice
2012 Town Hall Theatre (foyer), Trieste
2011 Palazzo Costanzi, Trieste
2010 “Relicta 85/86”, Modern Art Gallery, Udine
2009 Town Hall Gallery, Muggia (Trieste)
Town Hall Gallery, Portogruaro (Venice)
2007 Spazio la Feltrinelli, Udine
Galleria Sagittaria, Pordenone
2005 Spazio Juliet, Trieste
2004 Villa Manin, Passariano (Udine)
2002 "Relicta", Abbey, Sesto al Reghena (Pordenone)
1998 Galleria del Cavallino, Venice
1995 "Black Figures", Galleria San Fedele, Milan
1994 "Anthology ’85-94”, Art Fair, Pordenone
1990 Cultural Centre, Sesto S. Giovanni (Milan)
1986 "Relicta", Italienisches Kulturinstitut, Köln
1985 "Relicta", Studio d’Arte Cannaviello, Milan

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018 War Paintings (First World War), Palazzo
Frisacco, Tolmezzo (Udine)
2017 Town Hall, Porêc (Croatia),
2015 Contemporay Art Collections, S. Vito al
Tagliamento (Pordenone)
2011 Galleria Sagittaria, Pordenone
Palazzo De Nordis Cividale del Friuli (Udine)
Moderna Art Gallery, Udine
2009 Thetis SpA, Venice,
Galerie “Le Chaval de Sable“, Paris
2008 ...