Lola June, the baby artist who making crazy New York

Other than dolls, pans, or balloons: her games are colors and brushes. Lola June, only two years old, sitting on the floor mixes tempera until to find the color gradation she likes the most. Then she spreads it on the canvas with a gestural storm and irreverent sign: what comes out are fantastic worlds in which her imagination over takes. Artworks that are literally making crazy the collectors of New York.
Lola June has just inaugurated her first solo exhibition in a gallery in Union Square, one of the most iconic squares of the city, selling in a few hours much more than many artist on the market of the Big Apple can sell in an year. 

The day of the inauguration, tells the magazine The Cute, the baby painter welcomed her fans with a very special hairstyle (nine pigtails hair), the diaper under the latest fashion trousers and with her dirty hands of what was left of a vanilla and chocolate crumbled biscuits.
She smiled naughty at everyone, but she didn't like the bouquet of roses that brought her a friend, as it is usual during the vernissage: as soon as she received the gift, the flowers was scattered throughout the gallery. However no one must have noticed it: the visitors were literally captured by her works.

«These art works could be very well in a collective exhibition near the canvas by Cy Twombly, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jackson Pollock or other famous abstract painters», they murmured in front off the Lola June creations. In fact, many people have taken the opportunity to bring home a piece, not only beautiful from an aesthetic point of view, but also designated to increase it value on the art market.
Of the 37 works exposed in the show (the curator have called it “Hope”, a title that is all a program) 12 have ended in the collections of rich newyorkers customers who have not been trouble to sign cheques up to 1600 dollars for an authentic “Lola June”. Among them, how writes the New York Post, also the dermatologist of celebrities and art collector David Colbert who says he noticed the paintings walking on the street. And while they were paying, the “Little Picasso”, as she has been renamed, asked for her Teddy Bear. «I want my Teddy Bear», insisted with the curator Pajtim Osmanaj. He was who discovered her.

He is a friend of Lola June mother, Lucille. During a dinner he saw the baby that, sitting on the floor, was drawing whit water markers on the printer sheets..
Hit by scribbles (or as he says from «her abstract composition that inspired reverential fear») Osmanaj returned the following week whit the Sharpy, which are indelible markers based on alcohol. Lucille prohibited him from giving it to his daughter: «They are toxic. Lola is just a child!». Osmanaj has not lost his patiance: he brought for her acrylic colours and a canvas giving birth to the carrier of Lola as an artist. Three mounts after, Sana Rezwan, art strategy of Metropolitan Museum of Art as well as patron, visiting Osmanaj's studio noticed one of the pieces of Lola June hanging on the wall: she fell in love and there offhand she offered 700 dollars to buy it. Since than it has been a crescendo of requests in other to push Osmanaj to organize an exhibition at ChaSaMa of New York.
The problem for Lola June is not, of course, painting her works (she decides when to start and when to stop) but rather separate from them.
It may be because in those incredible abstract landscapes there is all her world, it may be because in those anthropomorphic forms hides who knows which character born from her huge imagination, every times someone buys ones of her paintings, she is sad. «She considers them her friends», explains Lucille. «She kisses them in the morning when she wakes up and tells them “Hello” when she leaves the house».
Stay like this, Lola June. After all, as Picasso used to say, «Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once grown».

Lola June ha un profilo Instagram dove ci sono i video e le foto dei suoi lavori. 

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