Teti

Teti is a conceptual painter who has exhibited around the world across Europe, in North America, Asia, and the Middle East. Her recent solo features include dual shows at V-Art Union in Brussels and Bruxelles, Belgium. Recent collective exhibitions include The London Art Gathering, Art Basel in Switzerland, Art Expo in New York, The Holy Art Gallery in Tokyo & London, Thompson Fine Art Gallery in Zug, Switzerland, Nicoleta Gallery in Berlin, and Artbox Gallery in Zurich. Teti has been published by Aesthetica, Artquol, and Spotlight Contemporary Art Magazine.

Containing insertions of geometry against depictions of cloudy skies in painting, these delicate and refined works portray the dichotomy between human–created constructs and machinations with the natural environment. Geometry almost does not exist in nature, such mathematics reveal a visual language typically employed by humans to denote and pronounce configurations. Teti places fixed rectangles, usually symmetrically parallel to one another, as a conceptual invasion of space. The clouds in the skies within these paintings are the focal point. These angelic clouds sparkle against atmospheres bathed in sunlight and optical distortion of colors, similar to a rainbow. Her most colorful paintings appear as if Teti has captured the cloud-filled sky bathed in the sun shortly after rainfall to display a prismatic array of colors.

These investigative paintings explore human identity and emotional impulses amidst the metaphors of penetration of space and the contrast between rigidity and the organic. The geometry expresses conformity, rules, and strictness while the clouds generate a sense of freedom and sensuality with their free-flowing forms. A relationship builds between the two which express both intrusion and harmony, between dual worlds and conceptual avenues initially opposed to each other but brought to heel in great balance by the artist. Through repetition and contrast, Teti explains how planes of consciousness become dissolved and interfered by the penetration of linear form and concepts. In a sense, Teti expresses disturbance and violation without us feeling violated. Her works are a pleasant intrusion, a tearful guise into the breaking apart of realms which could be imagined in our dreams.

Confluence (pictured above) remains one of Teti's highest contrast and most colorful paintings simultaneously; as a result, the piece stands out within her portfolio. Like a delicate prison, the clouds become encased with a prism of white lines which could represent light or purity. The boastful colors being interfered with these ‘white bars’ symbolize illusions becoming manipulated through purposeful guidance rather than random machinations.

With a complex and dynamic portfolio, Teti is not merely a painter, but more so a conceptual artist who molds and distorts realms of the sky into interpretations of intrusion and disruption. As if these geometric bars represented electrical storms and interference symbolically, their presence weighs heavily on our observations because of their dominant overtaking of the delicate cloud formations. These analytical works express deep expressions on how atmosphere and environments can be shaped and distorted to the whims of our imagination. By using geometry, Teti reveals how colliding worlds, between the natural and the manufactured, strike in synchronization through her craftful depictions, despite their conceptual differentiations.

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