Gurari Collections

 Botanicals Imagined

by Vico Fabbris

October 12th – November 5th, 2006

An exhibition of watercolor paintings by the artist Vico Fabbris Entitled Botanicals Imagined, the exhibition’s focus is the artist Vico Fabbris’ imaginative botanical watercolors. The work is from the ongoing series, Botanical Unknown which explores “the natural world of plants....which are of an imaginary world that never really existed.” The notion that like other species botanicals are becoming extinct due to “negative environmental impact” the artist has responded to this issue by replacing what has been lost with those of his own creations. In the paintings an imagined context is engaged or disengaged from each flower thereby inventing a “whole botanical history”.