Kinesics is the third solo exhibition in Brescia by the American abstract painter Nathlie Provosty, for this occasion the artist has created a series of oils on canvas, spanning from the very large to the very small, investigating the themes of dynamism and structure. The show, titled Kinesics, is also presenting a new body of works on paper framed with resin artworks designed by the artist.
Kinesics is the interpretation of the nonverbal gestures of the body. It holds the belief that all physical movements—posture, blinks, a blush, etc.—convey meaning. A grammar of unspoken communication emerges. The exhibition of new works, all 2023, features oil paintings and ink drawings that radically expand Nathlie Provosty’s material syntax with wide messy strokes, collage, pattern, spill, scratch, and dab. There are shaped canvases designed to imply perspective, artist-designed resin frames that extend the tactile drawings into sculptures, and modifications to the gallery space that create areas of compression and translucency.
