Artists VOLTA NY 2008
Presented by: Kenworthy-Ball
1968 El Salvador/Switzerland, is a devotee to painting, although his artistic talent is not limited to this genre. Nova paints, above all abstract, makes Videos, takes photographs and creates large scale wall or room based installations. He juggles with the tools of almost all the media available to an artist today, avoiding dogmatism's as he plays with our contemporary patterns of perception, with digitally deconstructed forms of pictorial communication of reality and with the surface areas on which pictorial illusions appear.
Nils Nova was awarded the prestigious Swiss art award in 2001,04,05, the Manor art Prize in 2002 and the Central Switzerland art prize in 2004. Nova has participated in numerous group and solo shows like "Place Vandôme" centre Culturel Suisse , Paris 2004, “ Super Natural” Galerie Urs Meile, Lucern 2005, "Translation of Reflection" Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris 2005, "Stop Over" Fri-Art, Fribourg 2006, ”2 Zeit”, Museum of Art Lucern 2006, "Tides" ausstellungsraum25, Zürich 2007, "Top of Central Switzerland" Museum of Art Lucern 2007, "Similar Encounter" La Rada, Locarno 2008, "Stop Over" SESC Pinheiros, Sao Paolo Brasil 2008.
 Nils Nova, Tides, installation view at ausstellungsraum25, 2007 |