Andrea Festa Fine Art is pleased to announce Prima Vista, a solo exhibition of new works by Italian painter Silvia Giordani. Running from November 22, 2024, through January 15, 2025, Prima Vista invites audiences to experience landscapes at the threshold of recognition, exploring themes of perception, ambiguity, and the fragile boundaries between real and digital realms. An opening reception will be held on November 22 from 7:00 to 10:00 PM.


Andrea Festa Fine Art is pleased to announce Prima Vista, a solo exhibition of new works by Italian painter Silvia Giordani. Running from November 22, 2024, through January 15, 2025, Prima Vista invites audiences to experience landscapes at the threshold of recognition, exploring themes of perception, ambiguity, and the fragile boundaries between real and digital realms. An opening reception will be held on November 22 from 7:00 to 10:00 PM.
 The exhibition’s title, Prima Vista, is inspired by the novel Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis. Giordani draws on the concept of “first sight” to evoke the disorienting experience of encountering an unexplored land. She examines humanity’s innate impulse to interpret the unknown through familiar perspectives, rendering landscapes that hover between vegetable and mineral forms. These uncharted terrains reveal themselves gradually, as luminous openings suggest skies, portals, or digital screens, capturing the blurred line between nature, reality and simulation.
 Giordani’s paintings, predominantly acrylic and oil on canvas, are steeped in her signature style: an ambiguous, atmospheric quality that blends organic forms and gradient backgrounds reminiscent of both twilight skies and virtual environments. Through color and composition, she crafts landscapes that feel simultaneously ancient and futuristic, suspended in a delicate balance. Her work probes the nature of reality itself, questioning how our perceptions are mediated by the increasingly intertwined realms of the digital and the physical. This interplay challenges viewers to navigate the boundary between truth and illusion, urging reflection on the experience of landscape in a post-digital age.