Wonderin’: Wine Tasting Dinner and Silk Paintings by Ria Lussi@ O’Barone – Jun 29th, 2010

Contaminate NYC

presents:

Wine Tasting Dinner
7:00pm-10:00pm
O’Barone,
360 Van Brunt St (Btwn Wolcott and Sullivan St)
Brooklyn, NY

Join Contaminate NYC at O’Barone on Jun 29th, 2010 for a delicious dinner and wine tasting evening along with the presentation of Ria Lussi’s Silk Paintings. Dinner will start at 7:00 pm with a fix price of $35.00 (plus taxes and tip) including appetizers, one entree and a selected list of wines from Piemonte, Italy. Stay tuned for updates on the menu and the wine selection and enjoy a quick preview of Ria’s paintings.

Ria Lussi

Italian painter Ria Lussi’s most recent work involves painting on silk using an innovative and yet traditional technique. Painting on fabric, especially on silk, has ancient roots and is often associated with humble handy-work that imitates the noble craft of embroidery of damask, of brocade and velvet. In the modern era in Europe, painting on silk in particular, tends to imitates precious fabrics imported from China with the intention of replicating exotic expression with a high level of vibrant and animated decoration.

Ria pursues a different goal experimenting with a type of material and an unusual technique in an unknown field of contemporary art that repudiates catching and traditional aestheticism. Looking at her silken paintings we perceive how she has slowly and deliberately become familiar with the fabric that she works with and how much she is in debt to the medium she has chosen.

Born in Milan, Ria Lussi has studied as painter and designer in Paris and Urbino, and has worked in London, Rome and Milan. In Urbino,
centre of the Italian Renaissance, she deepened her knowledge of different techniques of printing, serigraphy, typography, as well as photography and collage techniques. A Japanese painter, Toba Chiba, introduced her to sumi-e, a painting technique that describes natural world complexity with just a few brush strokes.