Giulia Andreani

Giulia Andreani

Giulia Andreani - Galerie Max Hetzler Selected Works
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Giulia Andreani (b. 1985) repurposes personal memorabilia and archival photographs through painting to address forgotten histories, often through a feminist lens. Recalling the collage of Max Ernst and Hannah Höch, the artist uses watercolour and acrylic to reproduce, alter and combine motifs from these photographs generating new layers of meaning. Working primarily in Payne’s Grey, a blue-grey hue at once warm and cold, Andreani presents figurative work untainted by the artifice and power of painterly colour. The artist also looks to the aesthetics of Italian cinema including Pietro Germi’s tragicomic neorealism, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s hyper-mannerism and Luchino Visconti’s decadent lighting.
 
Themes central to Andreani’s practice include women’s position in society, motherhood, trauma and forgotten figures in political and art history. The artist addresses notions of historical amnesia and unearths buried narratives, specific and universal. She creates a dialogue with the past to render visible those made invisible, prescient stories that can guide us into the future.
 
“When you see a Giulia Andreani exhibition, it comes back to haunt you for a long while, with memories of faces, gazes, gestures, details, an item of clothing, an attitude, an accessory... Her pictures engage us not only while in their presence, but also long afterwards through memory, in the same way as a sentence from a novel or a scene from a film keep jumping out at us, without our asking them to. [...] Faced with strange scenes, and goaded on by curiosity, the viewer sets out in search of clues that they will not always find. For as they know, enigmas are at play beneath seemingly harmless, unremarkable appearances – battles that may be violent or silent, visible or imperceptible, but always both private and political.”
 
Jean-Marie Gallais, 'Cave Pictricem (Beware the female artist!)', in Giulia Andreani, exh. cat., Labanque, Béthune; Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dole; Paris: Dilecta, 2019, p. 42

Image: Fillon fillette ou Jeannette, 2019, acrylic on canvas, 150 x 200 cm.; 59 x 78 3/4 in.

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Selected Works

L'artiste microbe (autoportrait en Baikinman), 2018

Pensionnaire Modèle, 2018

Il Ratto di Europa, 2016
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Solo Exhibitions

Giulia Andreani - Galerie Max Hetzler

Kitchen Knife

Bleibtreustraße 45, Berlin

14 January – 26 February 2022
Giulia Andreani - Galerie Max Hetzler

Giulia Andreani

Pigs and Old Lace

41 Dover Street, London

24 September – 31 October 2020
Giulia Andreani - Galerie Max Hetzler

Was birgst du so bang dein Gesicht?

ONLINE EXHIBITION

2 – 16 May 2020
GIULIA ANDREANI - Galerie Max Hetzler

Art must hang

57, rue du Temple, Paris

12 September – 19 October 2019

Group Exhibitions

FIAC at the gallery - Galerie Max Hetzler

FIAC at the gallery

Ai Weiwei, Darren Almond, Giulia Andreani, Louise Bonnet, André Butzer, William N. Copley, Jeremy Demester, Ida Ekblad, Günther Förg, Charles Gaines, Loris Gréaud, Raymond Hains, Raphaela Simon, Tursic & Mille

57, rue du Temple, Paris

22 – 31 October 2020
Made in France - Galerie Max Hetzler

Made in France

Giulia Andreani, Jeremy Demester, Loris Gréaud, Raymond Hains, Tursic & Mille

57, rue du Temple, Paris

1 – 30 July 2020
Summer Show - Galerie Max Hetzler

Summer Show

Giulia Andreani, William N. Copley, Jeff Elrod, Günther Förg, Albert Oehlen, Sigmar Polke, Bridget Riley, Julian Schnabel, Thomas Struth, Edmund de Waal

Bleibtreustraße 45, Berlin

12 June – 1 August 2020
Made in France - Galerie Max Hetzler

Made in France

Giulia Andreani, Jeremy Demester, Loris Gréaud, Yves Oppenheim, Tursic & Mille

57, rue du Temple, Paris

3 – 23 July 2019

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

Giulia Andreani

Pétrichor

curated by Odile Burluraux

Galerie Saint-Séverin (Diocèse de Paris), Paris

3 October 2020 – 31 January 2021
GIULIA ANDREANI

La cattiva

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dôle, Dôle

4 October 2019 – 2 February 2020
GIULIA ANDREANI

Bacia la sposa / Brucia la strega

Lab Labanque, Béthune

9 March – 28 July 2019

Biography

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Videos

Adam Pendleton

Artist Talk: Giulia Andreani

Giulia Andreani in conversation with Flavia Frigeri on the occasion of "Giulia Andreani: Pigs and Old Lace" at Galerie Max Hetzler, London

41 Dover Street, London

24 September 2020
Adam Pendleton

Artist Talk: Giulia Andreani

Giulia Andreani in conversation with Jean-Marie Gallais, in her studio in Paris in September 2020

10 September 2020
Adam Pendleton

Interview: Giulia Andreani

at Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

Bleibtreustraße 45, Berlin

17 January 2020

Selected Press

Connaissance des Arts July - August 2019

MEDIAPART June 2019

Boum!Bang! October 2014

Slash February 2013

Inferno Magazine February 2013

Le Monde: Lunettes Rouges June 2012

News

Giulia Andreani

nominated for the Prix Marcel Duchamp 2022

We are delighted to announce that Giulia Andreani has been nominated for the Prix Marcel Duchamp 2022, along with Iván Argote, Philippe Decrauzat and Mimosa Echard. Named after the influential artist Marcel Duchamp, this annual award distinguishes the most significant and pioneering young artists of ...
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Time and Time Again – Works from the Vermeire-Notebaert Collection (group show)
Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Sint-Martens-Latem
13 February – 22 May 2022

Work by Giulia Andreani is included in the group exhibition Time and Time Again – Works from the Vermeire-Notebaert Collection, which will be on view at the Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens from 13 February 2022.

Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens
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Giulia Andreani, Louise Bonnet, Celeste Dupuy-Spencer et al.

Stretching the Body (group show)
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebardengo, Torino
5 November 2021 – 30 January 2022

The Stretching the Body group exhibition brings together a group of thirteen women artists from different generations and geographical origins, who through the medium of painting reflect on the genre of portraiture and the theme of the human figure. The exhibition title is a play on words in the ...

Giulia Andreani et al.

New Acquisitions by Amis du Centre Pompidou (group show)
Centre Pompidou, Paris

Giulia Andreani's paintings, Cheminotes, 2014 and Presqu'une laitière, 2018 were acquired by the Amis du Centre Pompidou as part of their operation to support the French artistic scene. It's on view in the Centre Pompidou collections at the reopening of the museum after the lockdown and until 4 ...
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