In my practice each work is born as a result of a research that, moving away from the only vision of an image, it focuses on the painting understood as a broader sensory experience.
I am interested in exploring the idea of materiality, physicality and tactility in a painting, investigating the tensions between the surface and the deepest levels it can contain, the relationship between full-empty, visible-invisible and absence-presence. Fundamental values in my practice are stratification and time.
My works begin by painting large sheets of Fabriano paper with a watery mixed media ink – iron powder, sand, silver powder, sometimes dust or plaster – in order to obtain monochromatic surfaces with textures and imperfections.
Then the paper is left to the wear and tear of time and natural agents, sun, wind, rain. This process transforms the material and makes it ruined, worn out, damaged.
This transformation is essential in my practice. I mean the wear and tear and the imperfections such as fragility but also resistance of the material over time.
At this point I tear or cut the paper into pieces to assemble it, in a balance and harmony of forms, in multilayered paintings which, evoking the idea of construction-deconstruction, hide or reveal the underlying structure. For emphasize the reference to the value of time and to the concept of a cyclical practice, I select and reuse remains of previous works that form the basis of each new work.
I find inspiration in the view of Buddhist philosophy that accepts the ephemeral nature of everything and that captures the beauty in imperfection and simplicity.
Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
- Luxembourg Art Week, Grège Gallery, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 22 – 24 November 2024
- Art On Paper, Grège Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, 3 – 6 October 2024
- Legàmi di carta, duoshow, Spazio Blue Train & The Kitchen art gallery, Milano, Italy, 14 May – 18 June 2024
- Intro, Escat Gallery, Barcelona, Spain, 8 May – 25 June 2024
- Debut, AndGallery, Edinburgh, UK, 6-27 April 2024
- 25° Premio Vittorio Viviani, Villa Brivio, Nova Milanese, Italy, 11 – 25 November 2023
- Biennale internationale d’art non objectif, Pont de Claix – Grenoble, France, 14 September – 18 November 2023
- Luminous Elsewheres, Westbeth Gallery, New York, USA, 31 March – 28 April 2023
- Comme un léger contretemps…, Group Show, La Grange Gallery, Cernay-Lès-Reims, France, 4-26 June 2022
- Safekeeping the Not Knowing, Pell Lucy Online Exhibition, 4 February – 2 June 2022
- A Generous Space, Group Show, Hastings Contemporary, Hastings, UK, 25 Nov 2021-17 Apr 2022
- More Than, Pell Lucy Online Exhibition, 8 October – 10 February 2021
- Indelibles Pell Lucy Online Exhibition, 4 June – 7 October 2021
- Intimately Enthralled, Pell Lucy Online Exhibition, 1 March – 3 June 2021
- Art Matters, Honourable Mention in Online Exhibition, Galerie Biesenbach, Köln, Germany, April 2020
- Umbrella Cardiff, Online Exhibition, UK, April 2020
- Strati e altri strati, Solo Show, 14 Art Gallery Cafè, Castellanza, Varese, Italy, 1 March – 29 March 2020
- A6 Murals Worldwide, N.° 20, a project by Lydia Wierenga NL, January 2020
- 21° Vittorio Viviani Prize, Villa Brivio, Nova Milanese, Monza e Brianza, I, 18 January – 9 February 2020
- Yicca Prize 2019, CMC Milano, 11 – 21 December 2019
- Premio Accademico Internazionale di Poesia e Arte Contemporanea “Apollo Dionisiaco” curated by Fulvia Minetti, Castello della Castelluccia, Roma, 16 November 2019
- Irripetibili Impronte, Collective Exhibition curated by Giò Marchesi, Palazzo Merula, Vigevano, Pavia, 26 October – 10 November 2019
- Circles, Collective Exhibition curated by Noibrera Association, Villa Castelbarco, Vaprio d’Adda, Milano, 19 October – 27 October 2019
- Shingle 22j VII Biennale d’Arte Contemporanea, curated by Elisabetta Civitan, Archaeological Museum, Anzio-Roma, 21 September – 30 September 2019
- Venti Contemporanei Festival d’Arte Contemporanea, curated by Virginia Glorioso, Cereggio, Reggio Emilia, 19 July – 21 July 2019
- Contrasti – Nuove Prospettive, Collective Exhibition, curated by Giuse Iannello, Strada Sotterranea Nuova, Castello Sforzesco, Vigevano, Pavia, 19 April – 1 May 2019
Selected works
Inks and Mixed Media on paper
About
- 1986 Art High School Caravaggio, Milano
- 1991 Academy Fine Arts Aldo Galli, Como. Specialization in Conservation and Restoration of Paintings on canvas and board
- 1993 Botticino Regional School, Brescia. Specialization in Conservation and Restoration of Frescoes and stone materials
- 1991/2016 Works in restoration of paintings on canvas, board and frescoes by Italian Masters
- Her works are found in private and public collections
- She lives and works between Milano and Como, Italy