LA VITA DELLE NUVOLE 

THE LIFE OF CLOUDS
Traveling with imagination, thanks to the power of art
by Andrea and Ancilla Bianconi

"Anci - I call my daughter like that - where are we going today?"
She replies ... "I want to travel around the world".
"Where do we start" I ask.
“From Vicenza - she replies - from the slide of the playground and then we go to find the sun with all the clouds.
And then we go to greet all the inhabitants of the clouds ".

We worked three days, drawing, cutting, building clouds and I discovered that a cloud can be a lake for a goose and also for a sheep.
We will continue this journey to discover other worlds to meet the sun.
Andrea Bianconi


Andrea Bianconi with fantasy travels with his daughter, the little Ancilla, and together they fly over the world on the clouds.  In these days of stay at home, to respect the Coronavirus containment measures, the artist's creativity infects the daughter's imagination and, together, they create great works of art inspired by the current condition.  You cannot move, you must stay at home, but your mind cannot, you can travel and with it the creativity that goes beyond every limit, every barrier, every border.  Not airplanes, but soft clouds, on which to travel in a fantastic world tour.  It is the power of art that wins even in these difficult days and that becomes a factor of contagious positivity. Andrea Bianconi's idea will be relaunched by Casa Testori, also inviting other artists to work with their children to give everyone their freshness and spontaneity.

Gallurese, acrylic on canvas, 2018, 102x76cms

​This exhibition, entitled Vision X, aims to bring together previously unseen works by new emerging Irish artists Aileen Murphy, Glenn Fitzgerald, Eleanor McCaughey and Brian Harte among others with more established international artists Thomas Noskowski, Joyce Pensato, Danny Rolph and Norbert Schwontkowski. The exhibition focuses on work that teeters on the edge of perception, dreamlike, sometimes awkward abstraction and subversive figuration that take the way we see apart and question our place in the world.

Vision X at RHA
​About the Royal Hibernian Academy 
About Danny Rolph

Danny Rolph Winner
of THE 2020 MARK ROTHKO MEMORIAL TRUST AWARD​

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Barbara Davis Gallery is pleased to congratulate Danny Rolph 
for being selected as one of 2 British artists awarded with
the 2020 Mark Rothko Memorial Trust.
 
The Mark Rothko Memorial Trust announced the re-launch of
their artist award initiative that began in 1973. Beginning in 2018,
the newly launched format of the award, is an artist-in-residence
​in partnership with the Mark Rothko Art Centre in Daugavpils, Latvia.

Mark Rothko had a deep affection for Britain ever since his first trip in 1959 when he visited his friend, the artist William Scott, in Cornwall, who introduced him to other artists working in St Ives.  Two years later Bryan Robertson mounted a retrospective of his work at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London. Since that time, it was often said that of all the artists of the New York School it was Rothko to whom the British and particularly British artists responded most warmly.
 
Shortly after Mark Rothko’s tragic death in 1970 Bryan Robertson gathered together those artists who had known Rothko and held him in high regard proposing that something should be done to honor his life and work. As a result, the Mark Rothko Memorial Trust was established as a registered charity with the purpose to facilitate travel bursaries for artists working in the UK to make their first trip to the USA. Funds were raised largely from the sale of a special portfolio comprising limited edition prints made by these British artists.


 
For more info about the Artist and The Mark Rothko Memorial Trust visit:
www.markrothkomemorialtrust.org
DANNY ROLPH / BARBARA DAVIS GALLERY
 
 
 

Anton Ginzburg's exhibit Construction Proxy was featured on Glasstire. ​Read the article here!

Owen Drysdale is featured in Fresh Contemporary Monthly Art Digest. Read the article here!

Danny Rolph has been selected to showcase his work at the 2017 Royal Acedemy of the Arts Summer Exhibition. See more about the show here!