Nata Biography
Born in Codroipo in 1955. After a period of training at the Venice Academy under the guidance of Emilio Vedova, she moved to Milan in 1985 where she met Giovanni Testori. Testori presented his first solo exhibition at the Cannaviello Art Studio and the Sesto al Reghena Abbey, titling his paintings Relicta. The paintings, which recalled the ruins of the 1976 Friuli earthquake, depicted a disorderly accumulation of objects and things, shocked by a huge catastrophe but bearing "the surprising proof of the invincibility of what is the impulse and pulsation of life".
Returning to Friuli in 1996, Nata explores a frontier territory where things, entities and images lose their static identity and are constantly transformed in her work, taking on new meanings based on new discoveries and relationships ("Coincidences"). His attention then focused on the intensification of various chromatic phenomena, creating a large series of works presented in the Nero a Colori exhibition held at the Spazio FVG of the Contemporary Art Center curated by Francesco Bonami at Villa Manin in Passariano in 2004.
In his most recent "Recreations" there is a more extensive use of heterogeneous elements (paper, fabrics, photographic images), which contrast with a more confident and decisive control of the painting. Recent exhibitions include Relicta 85/86 (Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Udine, 2010); The masters of the 20th century. The representation of the human figure in Friuli Venezia Giulia (Cividale, 2011); Paper route maps (City of Trieste, 2011); Artists between work and behavior. Homage to Goffredo Parise (Torre di Mosto, 2014).
