1. What are the foundations of your research (Art Identity)?
Light, Sign and Space.
2. Who are the artists who have guided you in your research?
Nature is the guideline of my proceeding, from the very beginning.
Looking at the history of art, my interest and the affinities found were mainly
the traces and the "instinctive sign" of the rock reliefs up to moving on to the painting of Caravaggio for the study of the centrality of the light that modulates the form.
Divisionist painting, Segantini and Previati. Futurist painting, Balla's studies on light and Dorazio's subsequent studies on the sign-chromatic sedimentation. Alberto Giacometti, above all a painter and draftsman. Sign values in the works of Hans Hartung and Emilio Scanavino.
Enrico Castellani, for the dynamics of light and shadow, Carmengloria Morales, for the sedimentation and stratification of the planes, Nicola Carrino and Robert Morris, for the relationship between space and sculpture.
3. Define yourself as a human being using three adjectives.
Pure, coherent, extremely sensitive.
4. According to your vision, where is contemporary art going and where would you like it to go?
Contemporary art is going far from my concept of "Art".
For me "the work of art is the artist", the artist's act of creation is existence and the I and the harmonic research on matter are a single thing, which is realized through the Uniqueness and lyricism. Art should allow you to identify yourself, to then enter the depths of things, capture their essence and transform it through the Uniqueness of the Individual, identify yourself in the material by activating new harmonic relationships between three artistic values that I consider primary: Light, Sign , Space, which are the same components that concern all the great Art of the past.
ANTONELLA ZAZZERA
You were born in Todi (Pg) in 1976, where you live and work.
She completed her studies at the Pietro Vannucci Academy of Fine Arts in Perugia where she graduated in Painting in 1998, the year in which she began collaborating with Giuliana Soprani Dorazio at the Extra Moenia gallery in Todi.
Her artistic research, which ranges from painting to photography to sculpture, is based on the "Segnotraccia", a visual and sensitive archetype that becomes total identification with her being in her becoming. The current work is presented as the result of a path which, starting from the photographic investigation, led her to investigate the centrality of Light in the definition of Space and Form.
In 2005 she won the 1st Prize for Young Italian Sculpture established by the National Academy of San Luca in Rome, curated by Nicola Carrino, Pietro Cascella and Carlo Lorenzetti. In 2016 you received the Arnaldo Pomodoro Prize for sculpture.
His exhibition activity started in the mid-nineties and since then there have been numerous participations in solo and group exhibitions, in public spaces and in private galleries, both in Italy and abroad, including: Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids MI (USA); Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation, Milan (I); Museion, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano (I); Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris (F); Mambo, Museum of Modern Art, Bologna (I); Camusac, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cassino (I); Musma, Museum of Contemporary Sculpture, Matera (I); Antonella Cattani Contemporary Art, Bolzano (I); Cité de la ceramic, Sèvres (F); Galerie Frey, Vienna - Salzburg (A); Bocconi Art Gallery, Milan (I); Fontation Villa Datris, L'Isle sur la Sorgue (F); Kasteel Van Gaasbeek, Gaasbeek (B); Grossetti Contemporary Art, Milan (I); Gerardo Rueda Modern Art Center, Matosinhos (P); 54th Venice Biennale, Italy/Umbria Pavilion, Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto (I); Studio G7 Gallery, Bologna (I); XLVI Vasto Award, Vasto (I); Santo Ficara Modern and Contemporary Art, Florence (I); Shanghai International Convention Center Pu Dong and Wison Art, Shanghai (RC); Pino Pascali Museum, Polignano a Mare, Bari (I); Fioretto Gallery, Padua (I); Circumnavigation of Contemporary Sculpture 3, Matera (I); Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Washington (USA); Rain Gallery 798 Art District, Beijing (RC); Museum of Music, Bologna (I); Extra Moenia Gallery, Todi (I); Pyramida Center for Contemporary Art, Haifa (IL); KCC Gallery, Tokyo (J); Kunsthaus Grenchen, Grenchen (CH); Théatre de Montrouge, Paris (F); Albornoz Palace Hotel, Spoleto (I); Galeria Winda, Kieleckie Centrum Cultury, Keilce (PL); XXIV Biennial of Gubbio, Gubbio (I); Galerjie Media Nox, Maribor (SLO); New York Public Library at the Art Section, New York (USA).
His works are present in public and private collections.
