In "Luce" by Marta Naturale, a dimly lit urban garden scene unfolds with a central, glowing lamp illuminating greenery, surrounded by soft shadows and textured foliage. The realism heightens emotional subtleties, bringing serenity yet an eerie emptiness. Naturale's detailed style highlights human presence via light and architectural elements without direct depiction, evoking a sense of voyeuristic intimacy. Her work encapsulates the extraordinary in everyday spaces, suggesting narratives through indirect human traces, resonating with quiet introspection and the hidden complexities of familiar environments. ...
Marta Naturale’s art investigates spaces shaped and inhabited by humans, focusing on environments connected to daily life. Her meticulous approach amplifies the subtle tensions and poetic resonances embedded in these settings, revealing the contradictions and emotional weight that quietly define human experience. Her vision excludes literal noise, leaving any auditory presence suspended, imminent but unrealized, heightened through the careful attention to detail. She transforms ordinary, familiar spaces into sites of unexpected significance, uncovering the extraordinary within the mundane. Naturale’s focus is often on urban gardens or residential enclosures, rendered with painstaking attention to foliage, hedges, railings, and isolated houses. These spaces may appear uninhabited, yet traces of human presence emerge through artificial lighting or small details, suggesting activity without directly depicting it. Navigating these environments with a delicate, voyeuristic sensibility, Naturale guides viewers through private, intimate corners, revealing interiors where memories, emotions, and personal histories linger. Through her detailed observation of objects, furniture, and spaces, she evokes the quiet yet charged presence of human life, making the familiar simultaneously intimate and elusive. ...
Over the years, the gallery has developed a programme of exhibitions with Italian and international artists, focusing on themes related to time, space and the human condition. Moving to Milan in 2003, developed a narrative connected to a nomadic attitude, using different spaces in the city. ZERO... has collaborated with national and international museums, as well as public and private institutions.
