Public Grapes, Anonymous Meat is a solo show by Andrea Dobreva at Fiumano Clase.
Dobreva spent eight years in Munich working with refugees of many nationalities and found that, even though each individual had their own unique story, they were often treated as merely ‘migrants’ or ‘refugees’.
Dobreva elevates the people she met and the experiences they recounted in her work, creating contemporary History Paintings depicting heroic tales of journeys endured.
Influenced by Italian Baroque, there’s a fluidity and exuberance in Dobreva’s handling of paint. You can feel the sweep and verve of the brush.
Ranging from the large to tiny, these new Old Master oil paintings tell the migrants’ stories with dignity and give us hope for the potential of their future lives.
