This month long exhibition of paintings by Marina Burana 明蓮花 will run from March 20th to April 20th. For easy viewing we suggest you arrive between 7pm and 8.30pm to enjoy the artwork and relax with some food and drinks. Live music will start every evening from 8.30pm. (9pm on Friday and Saturday)

EXHIBITION 展覽
綻放 In Bloom – March 20th-April 20th
Marina Burana 明蓮花
My work often centers on poetry, memory and nature. Taking inspiration from
poems that have a profound impact on me, from intimate memories and from specific
moments of the natural world -bloom, decay, loss, regeneration, death- I try to weave
a personal visual literacy reinvented and rearranged by rich and full colors and by a
constant search of a narrative derived from movement.
I work with oils mostly and I am exploring how to make cloth/paper out of the
bark of the Paper Mulberry tree and use it as a surface to paint on with natural
pigments. This is a very long and beautiful process.
In an attempt to always get as close to nature as my circumstances allow it, I
decided to put together this group of paintings that explore the burst of life, the
resilience of plants and a story of color. Being that these are showcased in such an
eclectic place as Sappho, the general idea of this exhibit is to somehow hunt through
splashing color, human narrative and the intricacy of natural systems and combine that
with the dazzling, metaphysical force of music.
In these paintings flowers are intertwined with human life. The natural world,
often seen as a mere annex to human existence, presents itself as the very intimate
fabric of who we are in this planet. Our mutual connection is revealed in these pieces
as an inextricable force that emerges and reminds us that now it is the moment to
bloom.