Nicola Aramu
Painting / Printmaking
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Nicola Aramu is an Italian artist from Venice, where he studied painting and printmaking at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia.
His painting draws inspiration from everyday life, memory, and history. The past of those who came before us reappears to him through images—old postcards and black-and-white photographs—breathing nostalgia and a gentle melancholy for lost things. By giving a second life to these private and public memories, he creates a poetic universe that is at times fantastic and ambiguous, stimulating both memory and imagination.
Nature is another central theme in his work, particularly in his aquatic landscapes: a series of paintings devoted to the element of water, explored from more or less classical viewpoints. These range from abstract color studies and impressionistic landscapes to poetic compositions in which the line between reality and fantasy often blurs. In doing so, his waterscapes both reflect nature and function as projection screens for the viewer’s imagination.
Education
Graduate of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia.
Exhibitions
2020 – Pop-Up Artistes, Fondation Fernet-Branca, Saint-Louis
2019 – Mis au vert, Le Séchoir, Mulhouse
Nicola Aramu – Je peins, donc je suis, Council of Europe – Agora, Strasbourg
2018 – Kronos, La Storta, Venice
Nicola Aramu – Alles wird gut…, Galerie Markt 21, Weimar
2017 – Nicola Aramu – Je peins, donc je suis, Cour des Chaînes, Mulhouse
Je peux te voir en peinture, Le Séchoir, Mulhouse
2015 – Nicola Aramu – Wasserlandschaften, Galerie HILT, Basel
2014 – Nicola Aramu – Souvenir, Souvenir…, Galerie Markt 21, Weimar
Last Exit Dreamland, Gebrüder Wright Galerie, Berlin
2011 – Seguendo il cammino di Marco Polo: artisti italiani dipingono Hangzhou, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, San Marco, Venice (Hangzhou, 2012)
2010 – Suspense, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Palazzetto Tito, Venice
Ricognizione sulla Nuova Arte in Veneto, Studio Bazzini 14 Arte Contemporanea, Milan
Proposed workshops
Painting, watercolor, and printmaking classes available upon request.
