MASSIMODECARLO is pleased to present Why the Butterflies , Nicole Wittenberg's first exhibition in Asia. The new paintings of coastlines, flowers and gardens at dusk are each made in a single day and never reworked, painted in the narrow window before a feeling becomes tangible. Prince recorded the album Piano & A Microphone when he was twenty-four years old. The album is a 34-minute recording of Prince in his home studio at his own piano with a microphone. You can hear him at the beginning of the recording calling out to the sound editor to balance the relationship of the voice and the piano. Within this 34-minute cut, we can hear some of Prince’s most iconic songs move seamlessly from one to the next-- beginning with 17 Days flowing right into Purple Rain and transitioning directly to a Case of You. When we think of Prince as a musician, we think of discrete movements, spanning decades, yet this album makes clear that Prince, through all of his different periods, was just one man, one artist and the vision he had for his work was continuous. This album was not released until 2018, two years after his death. The final track is called Why the Butterflies and the entire album was continuously playing while Wittenberg painted the works for this show. The parallel is exact: each canvas made in a single take, never touched again.

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