EMILIO GOLA – DEAR FRIEND, WHAT’S THE TIME?
2025-07-28Emilio Gola’s works – be it drawings or paintings – do not have a strictly narrative intent, nor an illustrative purpose. His practice renders reality, yet filtered through an emotional distance, observed with restraint. The subjects that inhabit his works – young friends, siblings, studio mates, fellow artists – seem to enter the image not merely to be represented, but rather to be welcomed. The bodies offer themselves to a gaze that accompanies them: they are figures captured in a state of surrender, oscillating between intimacy and exposure, as if they had just dozed off in a space that allows them to be themselves, without having to prove anything.
Opposite – Viola, 2025
Exhibition runs through to August 30th, 2025
Monica De Cardenas
Chesa Albertini
Stradun 111
CH-7524 Zuoz
Switzerland
