Dorothy Circus Gallery is ready to inaugurate its new art season with the second italian solo exhibition by Natalie Shau.

The Artist, presented by Dorothy Circus in 2009 with the exhibition "Venenum et Medicamentum” is today one of the most important leaders of digital art and returns to the italian stage with the exhibition "Hide and Seek". With the sixteen brand new artworks series "Hide and Seek" the Artist gets out of the shadows theme in order to dive into a morning dream.

Shau opens the doors of her Private Garden, where her haunting characters play hide and seek along the path of a metaphorical labyrinth,
Lavinia, Lilith, Lucy, Alice ... come out of every corner and winks to the visitor disseminating flowers, pearls and tentacles, leading us in a symbolic journey that aims to reveal the warm rooms of the female mind. The Lady of the House is once again the Woman, that the artist tells as in an autobiographical portrait, in the complete dichotomy of her nature, at the same time fragile as butterfly and powerful as a queen of the occult.

Shau’s refined digital brushes are drenched with that other world’s breath that we belong to, and investigate on what is "beyond" every soul, revealing card by card, leaving traces in a maze of mirrors and glossy illusions, where the salvation of a puppy is hiding under a mask of vanity, a goldfish swims upside down without gravity thoughts of a teenager, and the woman rises as "Flower of Blood" at the dawn of new fires, when once again is the innocent victim of the darkest of poisons.

Natalie Shau was born in Vilnius, Lithuania in 1984, is world-famous female representative of the hi-tec avant-garde of figurative Art and leading illustrator and photographer in digital art scene.

Her artworks are made by a mix of photography, computer graphics and 3D elements . From Natalie Shau’s digital brushes emerge surreal creatures as alienating and hypnotic narrators of a nowhere land breath that we belong to, fragile and powerful at the same time , both real and illusory.

In Natalie Shau’s cultural background are traceable influences of religious imagery , the language of the ancient nordic tales , classic horror literature and Russian literature .

Her unique figuration artworks, are on permanent display at Dorothy Circus Gallery in Rome and were exhibited in the most famous galleries in the mainstream such as Opera Gallery - New York, Corey Helford - Los Angeles, Vanilla Gallery - Tokyo, Phillip de Pury - New York , as well exhibited in numerous institutional exhibitions , such as " Inside Her Eyes" held at Palazzo Valentini seat of the Province of Rome, " Pop Surrealism " and " Pop Surrealism Stay Foolish " respectively hosted by the Palace Museum Collicola in Spoleto and the Museum Casa De Conte Verde di Rivoli - Turin , and the New Pop Pop collective curated by Melissa Proietti in collaboration with DCG and Galleria Ca 'd'Oro for the Museum Macro Testaccio in Rome in support of Anlaids .

The Art of Natalie Shau is increasingly being commissioned by designers, novelists , filmmakers and musicians becoming illustrations of covers music albums, covers of novels and theater sets . Her works are published as covers of novels " Cyanure " Camilla Lackberg and " La nuit du Solstice " by LJ Smith and his famous collaboration with singer Kerli at the making of the video and album cover " Walking on Air " and the artistic direction of 3D musical movie " Dracula" by Kamel Ouali . Her illustrations for the jewelry company Lydia Courteille were published in the French section of Vogue. Among the collectors of Natalie, outstanding personalities from the world of music and advertising, including Island Def Jam, Ogilvy & Mather, Sony BMG, Century Media, Nuclear Blast, Trisol and many more.

Dorothy Circus Gallery
Via dei Pettinari, 76
Rome 00186 Italy
Ph. +39 06 68805928
info@dorothycircusgallery.com
www.dorothycircusgallery.it

Opening hours
Monday from 10.30am to 6.30pm
Tuesday - Thursday from 10.30am to 7.30pm
Friday and Saturday from 11.30 to 8.00pm

Related images

  1. Natalie Shau, Alice drowning, Digital illustration on hanemule, 70 x 55 cm
  2. Natalie Shau, Hidingplace (detail), Digital illustration on hanemule, 48 x 86 cm
  3. Natalie Shau, Blush, Digital illustration on hanemule, 70 x 56 cm
  4. Natalie Shau, Lavinia, Digital illustration on hanemule, 60 x 80 cm
  5. Natalie Shau, Openup, Digital illustration on hanemule, 60 x 80 cm
  6. Natalie Shau, Biscuit, Digital illustration on hanemule, 43 x 65 cm