On the occasion of Artissima 2025, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo presents Portrait, the first solo exhibition in an Italian institution by artist Angharad Williams, winner of the illy Present Future Prize 2024, the twenty-fifth edition of the initiative promoted by illycaff\u00e8 and Artissima.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Working across multiple mediums, Williams\u2019 projects are grounded in careful research and informed by their site and context, inviting reflection on the forces that structure our lives and environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For this exhibition, the artist presents a new painting that explores themes of representation and the history of gentry portraiture. Portrait extends Williams\u2019 ongoing exploration of exhibition-making, collaboration and the mechanics of method and style in painting, notably through the iconography and legacy of German painter Gerhard Richter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The exhibition revolves around a single image: Lady Diana, seated with her back to the viewer, wearing her iconic red jumper decorated with white sheep and a single black one. The composition echoes Betty (1988), the famous portrait of Richter\u2019s daughter. Like Betty, Diana withholds her gaze from the viewer, turning away from the frontality and iconographic overexposure that has defined her public image for decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The painting is the outcome of a long philological and creative process: a detailed study of Richter\u2019s pictorial technique in Betty, the careful construction of light, the modelling of the pose, and the reconstruction of the back of Diana\u2019s head, a visual perspective largely absent from the collective memory, dominated by representations of her face. Through this approach, Williams interrogates the relationship between public image and the construction of visual power, transforming a global icon into an opaque, unavailable image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Suspended between image and picture, vision and material, Portrait reflects on painting as an act of memory, a practice capable of restoring complexity to what media images tend to simplify. Painting thus becomes a way to question social and cultural hierarchies, and to reflect on the mechanisms that shape how power and bodies are represented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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