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

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 

In 2009 I devoted myself to painting, sculpture (Bas-relief) and drawing: Paintings sold at the Hôtel de Drouot in 2009 and 2010, exhibition at the Dakar Biennale (2016), French Institute of Brazzaville-Congo (2017 ), Salon du Patrimoine - Carrousel du Louvre (2016-2018), D-Galerie (2019) Paris, Galerie Studiolo-Fabrice Ausset (2019), D-Galerie (2020), Jardin Hanbury (2022), DGalerie (2024) Paris. 

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 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. 

My artistic career is interspersed with collective and personal exhibitions, in France as abroad public places and exhibitions, punctuated by installations, performances, as well as artistic interventions in various institutions. 

>|<Papillon

>|<Papillon (alias PM Colpin-Gucat) use colors like we wear our dreams, creating fragments of poetry that attempt to capture a world that eludes mankind and that no one can hold back.

The painter searches for something elusive, the radiance of a sunset reflected in motion, in the deep azure of a late Ligurian summer's day.

Her pigments are layered, sometimes transparent, sometimes opaque, almost blindly, in a desperate attempt to capture the light, while the shadow slips through her fingers.

Each work is an attempt to capture the moment, the movement of life. 

As autumn approaches, in the last glimmers of late summer, the unexpected, the Hanbury Gardens welcome him. 

Perhaps he will succeed in becoming the butterfly that finally finds the absolute, the sacred fire of rays of color, those that burn with a fire that never goes out.

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