Degree: MA in Fine Art
University: Accademia di Belle Arti
Graduation Year: 2000
I am an Italian artist from Venice where I studied painting and printmaking at the Accademia di Belle Arti. My paintings are inspired by nature, history and memories. The subjects of my works are often based on black-and-white vintage photographs I have been collecting for years. Transforming them into paintings, I tend to give these souvenirs a second life and to save them from getting lost or being forgotten. By combining public images as part of our collective Memory with snapshots of private origin, I seek to create a fantastic, sometimes ambiguous poetry that questions our memory and imagination. In this respect, I use colour to create new visual emotions.
Nature is another central topic of my work, as shown in "Water Landscapes" – a series of landscape paintings dedicated to the element of water from more or less classical points of view. They range from abstract colour studies and impressionistic landscape paintings to poetic compositions in which the lines between reality and phantasy are often blurred. In so doing, my water landscapes are reflections of nature and projection screens for the viewer’s imagination alike".
EXHIBITIONS (selection):
2017, Nicola Aramu – Je peins, donc je suis, Cour des Chaînes,
2017, 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
2014, Weimar Last Exit Dreamland, Gebrüder Wright Galerie, Berlin
2011, Seguendo il cammino di Marco Polo: artisti italiani dipingono Hangzhou,
2011, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, San Marco, Venice / Hangzhou
2010, Suspense, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Palazzetto Tito, Venice
2010, Ricognizione sulla Nuova Arte in Veneto
2010, Studio Bazzini 14 Arte Contemporanea, Milan
2009, Rilassarte. Viaggio attraverso l´onirico elemento, Magazzini del Sale, Venice
2008, Dedicato a Malamocco, Palazzo Pretorio, Venice Ritratti,
2008, Scala Mata Exhibition Space, Venice
2007 Kunststück, Berlin Il Senso dell’Anima,
2007, Scala Mata Exhibition Space, Venice
2007, Nicola Aramu – Senza Parole, Galleria Perelà, Venice
2006 Private Gallery, Venice Berliner Kunstsalon, Berlin