In the works of Katrin Fridriks, there are all the opposing forces of the land from which she comes – Iceland. As fire, ice, volcanoes and geysers coexist in her island, so do spontaneity and rule, dynamism and control, meet and clash on her canvases, creating works full of explosive energy that overwhelm the observer.

Dellupi Arte gallery presents Katrin Fridriks. Forces of Nature, the first solo show of the Icelandic artist in Italy. The première condenses the idea of finding a right balance between different potential thrusts present in nature as in human being. The destructive force of the elements is balanced by its conservative and self-regenerating power, the delirious omnipotence that often distinguishes the human with their sense of inferiority in face of nature. Every work of Fridriks recalls the immensity of nature – cosmic panoramas, lunar landscapes, geological stratifications, drought-defatted soils – but also infinitely small, such

The desire to seek a meeting point between opposites is also found in Katrin Fridriks’s working process that combines speed and dynamism with pre-established directions and controlled gestures: this energy that in the act of painting remains in power dissipates disproportionately on the canvas creating a real emotional explosion. Vitality, that is further accentuated by the combination of brilliant and contrasting colors, conceived by Fridriks herself.