This December, Kwai Fung Hin presents Enchanted Visions, a group exhibition featuring seven contemporary artists with ties to Italy. Through painting, sculpture, installation, and photography, they conjure mythic, uncanny worlds where certainty dissolves and boundaries blur. Drawing on history, cultural heritage, symbolism, and philosophy, each artist translates reality into a field of possibilities beyond conventional logic.
Distinct in approach yet united in creative courage, they reveal hidden magic woven through the layers of perception in our contemporary world. Here, enchantment is not about pretty lies of fantasy, but about guiding viewers beyond the familiar toward the essence of things.
Paola Angelini (b. 1983) intricately layers signs and matter on canvas to evoke spiritual rhythms, fusing personal memory with classical philosophy and art historical references into dissonant yet harmonious compositions that transcend time and space.
Thomas Braida (b. 1982) boldly reinterprets European painting traditions with grotesque, mythic flair, blending irony, vibrant materiality, and dreamlike absurdity to explore life's primal instincts and human contradictions.
Luca De Angelis (b. 1980) weaves enigmatic figures into lush, otherworldly landscapes, using textured oils and symbolic ambiguity to probe the intimate, transfigured bond between humanity and nature's elusive depths.
Enej Gala (b. 1990) reimagines traditional marionettes using raw materials like sawdust to explore the uncanny tension between controller and controlled.
Giulio Malinverni (b. 1994) stages a visionary dialogue between landscape and self, where colour and brushwork weave a dynamic harmony of dualities—light and dark, day and night, sky and sea, fluidity and stillness.
Patricio Reig (b.1959) transforms photography into tactile, memory-laden artifacts through 19th-century techniques, evoking the fragile, eternal essence of time and absence.
Mattia Sinigaglia (b. 1989) creates "sculptural paintings" fusing oil, ceramics, and wood to explore the boundary between human culture and the animal world.