Ninetto is excited to present “The Last Seahorse Neighing in an Egg”, a summer exhibition featuring individual and collaborative works by Faye Wei Wei and Erin Wolf Mommsen.
Both painters came for a residency at Ninetto during the month of July.
A book gathering their collaborative poems and drawings is available as a limited, signed edition of 100 copies.

This is how the paintings and poems were conjured.
On the flowerbed of chance
Desire and delirium
For the permanent
The everlasting
We looked at the moon and couldn’t see the stars but felt them— We sat in the parks, cafes, trains to Coney Island, pubs, and beds
of New York City—in black velvet Guinness night love was made
manifest through spun poems, songs and paintings in silver threads.
Faye carried a chocolate box of watercolours, Erin—a tin pencil
case of charcoal ephemera. A leather bound purple book held plum
coloured ink which brought forth a blooming of poem games.
Line after line, in turn—in tune. We told each other fairytales,
“Once Upon a Time”
…
And the world became a fairytale collapsed within the paintings.
Star after star.
Real life, and real painting became cyclically linked.
Like the cosmic snake that breathes in the sky.
Like the beauty and sweetness of doughnuts at night time.
Imagination sustained in the hyacinth garden—in the face of
impermanence.
All the world still and quiet, cocooned by a sleepy spider’s web.
Two flowers dedicated to the pursuit of beauty.

—Faye Wei Wei and Erin Wolf Mommsen