Emanuele Gori
26TH & 27TH JUNE OPEN STUDIOS
Location: Studio 2, Empress Mews, Off Kenbury Street, SE5 9BT
This studio can be visited safely without the requirement to book in advance.
Artist Statement
Emanuele Gori is a painter, sculptor, ceramicist and etcher. His works are mostly figurative. His paintings are large scale (over 2 metres square), and his sculptures include 2.4m high bronzes. His work from this year features aquatint etchings shown for the first time in this Open Studio.
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More about the artist
Emanuele was born in Viareggio, in the Italian region of Tuscany, in 1956. At the age of fourteen, he was accepted at the Liceo Artistico in Carrara, where he studied until 1974, exhibiting during those years in Carrara and Viareggio. He moved to London in 1976 and has exhibited at regular one-man shows every four years and his work is held in private collections in Italy, Great Britain, France, Netherlands, the United States, and Australia.
His last exhibition was held at La Galleria, The Royal Opera Arcade, Pall Mall in London. Entitled Geometrical Figures the exhibition was inspired by the triangle, the circle and the square.Emanuele says: ‘I have combined my passion for the human figure with these three geometrical forms which are universal symbols of different aspects of nature and man’s body and soul. Geometry is the way in which we measure the world and the space that surrounds us. My multi-limbed figures lend themselves to make geometrical compositions, and the empty spaces they create around them within the frame are as important as the figures themselves, in the same way as the space around us is so vital to our own well being.’
