Summer Show 2025: The Shape of Becoming

An homage to the spiritual and physical intensity of abstraction as a lived act — a process of becoming. From Carone’s foundational role in the New York School to the global reinventions of Francine Tint and Osvaldo Mariscotti, each artist affirms the canvas as a space of movement, intuition, and inner vision. Here, the line is not merely a mark — it is memory, myth, and pulse.

This exhibition approaches abstraction not as a stylistic category, but as a language of sensation: gestural, personal, and psychologically charged. The five featured artists trace their aesthetic lineage to post-war abstraction, yet each expands it in distinct ways.

Nicolas Carone, a founding figure of the New York School, channels the spiritual core of Abstract Expressionism — mythic, introspective, and attuned to the unconscious, echoing de Kooning and Rothko. Francine Tint translates this inheritance into a deeply feminine, intuitive exploration of colour and space, resonant with Joan Mitchell and Helen Frankenthaler, yet uniquely her own in emotional tonality. Osvaldo Mariscotti merges formal clarity with expressive spontaneity, balancing the spatial logic of Constructivism with the radiant gestures of Albers and Olitski. Kowski and Zimmer bring a global, contemporary perspective to this lineage — their works are lyrical and raw, mapping landscape, psyche, and cosmology through movement and mark.