Ingrid Floss. Chromatic Renaissance

This book, documenting the exhibition Chromatic Renaissance, guides the reader through the most recent phase of Ingrid Floss’s research, in which painting becomes a space for regeneration and deep listening to color. The exhibition, held at ABC-ARTE ONE OF in Milan, presents a coherent and intense journey, revealing the dynamic balance between intuition and control that has always characterized the artist’s work.

The Milan presentation follows the first Italian stage of her career, organized by ABC- ARTE in Genoa, where Floss had already introduced her chromatic universe, intertwining spirituality, interiority, and painterly material into an emotional and reflective experience.

For years, Ingrid Floss has explored painting as an open process, based on a constant tension between impulsive gesture and reflection, between energy and calm, chaos and order. Her works, dense with material and crossed by vibrant color fields, emerge from a slow and layered practice, in which color is never a mere formal element but a vital and spiritual force, capable of generating inner spaces and states of resonance.

For years, Ingrid Floss has explored painting as an open process, based on a constant tension between impulsive gesture and reflection, between energy and calm, chaos and order. Her works, dense with material and crossed by vibrant color fields, emerge from a slow and layered practice, in which color is never a mere formal element but a vital and spiritual force, capable of generating inner spaces and states of resonance.
Chromatic Renaissance is conceived as a journey into the regenerative power of color: in Floss’s canvases, light seems to emerge from within the pictorial matter, suggesting a continuous dialogue between the visible and the invisible, between surface and depth. 

Each layering becomes a trace of lived time, each hue an autonomous voice contributing to the construction of a complex and never definitive harmony. The exhibition’s title, inspired by a musical project dedicated to Italian Renaissance composers, reinforces this synesthetic dimension of Floss’s painting, where color behaves like sound, rhythm, and resonance.
This volume thus presents a detailed portrait of Ingrid Floss’s practice, offering an insight into the coherence and depth of her research, and inviting the reader to immerse themselves in a painting that is not only to be observed but to be experienced, listened to, and lived.