Elisa Zadi/The pictorial act as a search for truth and beauty

by Romina Ciulli and Carole Dazzi

Bruciare illusioni, PicNic (2023)

The portrait, and the self-portrait, are the forms with which the artist Elisa Zadi investigates the bond between man and nature. A research that ranges from painting to installation, from performance to poetry, and that through an intimate and introspective path focuses on issues related to femininity, identity, and knowledge. In her works the human figure stands out in all its frank and refined frontality, giving life to a narrative that is not only pictorial, but above all anthropological and existential. Thus emerges a spontaneous and suggestive creative act, often represented through the fragmented idea of polyptychs, where the images seem to make use of a symbolic connotation to reflect on the complexity and fleetingness of everyday reality and human relationships. Read more

Open dialogues: Cristina Barbieri

by Margaret Sgarra, contemporary art curator

Cristina Barbieri is a visual artist born in Reggio Emilia, city where she graduated as a Master of Arts in the”Goldsmithing-Metals” section, and where she obtained a specialization in Marble Sculpture. Starting from 2022 she began to be interested in bioart and biodiversity. This passion led her to undertake an investigation towards mycology, which today is a central issue of her research and artistic poetic.

 

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Franco Nicolosi/Sculpture is an immaterial body

by Romina Ciulli e Carole Dazzi

Riflessioni di Superficie, 2002

The works of the artist Franco Nicolosi come from a deep intimate reflection. A sort of continuous sensorial interconnection where matter translates into an unexpected creative process, albeit meditative. An experiential practice, characterized by forms with unmistakable, sinuous and rhythmic traits. Forms that seem suspended between past and present, but that open to a constant and lasting dialogue. Here then are vases and drawings made with different materials, including clay, graphite, wood or ceramic. And, although each work follows a different specific path, they all eventually intertwine again, triggering reflections on concepts such as duplicity, symbolism, awareness and transformation. Read more

Daniela Daz Moretti/Art on the border between nostalgia and new identities

by Carole Dazzi and Romina Ciulli

Liminale

Daniela Daz Moretti, sculptor, painter, is a multifaceted artist whose works shape a personal existential journey, making her deepest and most intimate side manifest. Above all, it is through the modeling of ceramics, her medium of choice, that Daz accompanies us along this growth path, crossing themes such as childhood and adulthood, the existential meaning of memory, the allegorical border between inner world and external reality. Read more

Open dialogues: IroPeinto

by Margaret Sgarra, contemporary art curator

Etere

IroPeinto, stage name of Veronica Larotonda, is a visual artist who works using different pictorial languages, such as painting on water, the Ebrù technique and oil connected to metals. The focus of her work is centered on form, which becomes something incomprehensible and elusive, at times elusive. Furthermore, the relationship with dreams is fundamental, as it proves to be a field of investigation in correlation with the unconscious. She currently lives and works in Milan. Read more