OPENING RECEPTION: Nature on the Rocks by Guy de Potesta

De Potesta's surreal, dream-like canvases reveal the unsettling realities of a world undergoing rapid environmental degradation. Known for pairing wildlife with human-made objects in humorous, improbable ways, de Potesta uses absurdity not as escape but as a sharp lens on a natural world increasingly strained by human materialism.

Long fascinated by the fragile relationship between nature and human consumption, de Potesta constructs a world through painting where scale and habitats distort. His animals—majestic, vulnerable, dignified— inhabit drinking glasses, spirit bottles, and other unnatural vessels of indulgence. De Potesta invites viewers to lean into these uncanny pairings: to laugh, to question, and to confront the surrealism of climate reality—where melting glaciers, displaced species, and extreme weather events feel less and less like scenes from an impossible dream.

Guy de Potesta: Nature On The Rocks offers a fresh, imaginative approach to environmental art—one that is bold, visually seductive, and urgently aligned with our time. The exhibition challenges us to see the climate crisis not just as data, but as an unfolding surreal experience we are actually living in.

“I merge two worlds—natural and man-made—not to decorate wildlife but to show how we transform it, compress it, consume it, and sometimes endanger it without meaning to,” - Guy De Potesta