Where and when

The exhibition is open to visitors with an entrance ticket to the Gardens

The Umbrella Project (T.U.P)

T.U.P is a group of artists living in the Italian/French Alpes Maritime region with a desire to
create art events collectively. The idea was born when French artist Sylvia Rhud and Swedish artist Joakim Allgulander met at Hanbury Gardens a few years ago, when Sylvia did a residency and exhibition at Villa Hanbury.

The group now consists of 4 artists: Sylvia Rhud (FR), Helene Picardi (FR), Papillon (FR) and Joakim Allgulander (SE).

The exhibition IMMERSIONAMENTO is the first project by the group, and it is an exhibition at the Villa in Hanbury Gardens to explore how the four different artistic temperaments will work together, all with a connection and in dialogue with the place and its surroundings.

THE ARTISTS

Joakim Allgulander 

Joakim Allgulander is a Swedish artist known for his playful approach to reflect on existential questions in his art. Characterized by a conceptual base, and a curiosity and desire to explore different media and techniques. 

There’s existential content and a dynamic play with contrasts throughout Allgulander’s work; everything from natural and artificial, new and old and light and darkness. 

Allgulander's oeuvre includes painting, printmaking and sculpture. 

Since 2013, Allgulander has lived and worked internationally, first in London and now in Perinaldo, Italy. 

Notable exhibitions in recent years include: 2024 Die Landschaft als Sinnbild, Galerie Lauth Ludwigshafen (DE). 2023 Green, Black, Blue, Galleri Duerr, Stockholm (SE). 2023 Resurfacing, Saatchi Gallery, London (UK). 2021 Right Here Right Now, Saatchi Gallery, London (UK). 2020 Exile on East Street, Fiumano Clase, London (UK). 2020 Untitled Art Fair, Miami Beach (US). 2020 Summer exhibition, Royal Academy, London (UK). 2019 Volta Art Fair Basel (CH). 

Allgulander's art is internationally represented in several private collections. In Sweden, his art is represented by the Public Art Agency Sweden, in museum collections and by a number of municipalities and regions.

Hélène Picardi

Like a fruit that is peeled infinitely, in perpetual transition, art is A perpetual laboratory of
life! Artistic research is my life, reflections and curious point of view are in the spotlight,
leaving the experimentation of materials and technical tools chosen according to the
search of the moment,
These experiments are based on a work of questioning and interpreting the emotional
states related to the relationship with the world around.

Papillon 

Papillon is an artist, at the intersection between a vanishing past and a future that
has yet to be expressed.

He carries colors as one carries dreams, creating fragments of poetry that capture a
world no one can hold onto.

He seeks something elusive, like the brilliance of a sunset reflected in motion, in a
deeply azure blue, at the end of a summer day in Liguria.

A futile effort.

His pigments, spread without measure, overlap in layers sometimes transparent,
sometimes too opaque, almost blindly, in a desperate attempt to capture the light,
while the shadow slips through his fingers.

Each canvas is a lost battle, a brushstroke that fails to freeze the moment, the
movement of life.

Everything escapes, everything fades. And he, for now, is a caterpillar that cannot
take flight.

But autumn is approaching, the great summer is fading. There is, in the last light of
the day, one final chance for metamorphosis.

The gardens of Handbury welcome him. Perhaps he will manage to become that
free, rare being, that butterfly who will finally find the absolute, the reality, the true
life, the one that burns with a fire that never goes out.

Sylvia Rhud

“Sylvia Rhud depicts what could be a detail or a limitless expanse, naturally inspired by the landscapes surrounding her studio in the south of France. But here, as in a whole recent chapter of her work, the artist seems to delve into the substance and its volume within the light itself. Thus, the illuminated, bright areas are sparse, revealing the energetic profusion of charcoal strokes in relief. These very strokes, like a hymn to the vitality of rocky yet also humid elements, seem to dance and capture a fleeting subject, though anchored in the Mass.”

Domitille Bertrand, Exhibition Curator"

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