Education:
Istituto d’Arte Lucca
Accademia Belle Arti Firenze
I was born in Lucca on a cold morning in March 1967.
As high-school student, I attended the Art Institute in Lucca and afterwords I gratuated from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence.
I started my professional career in an Art Studio in Lucca, practicing both painting and decoration. Thanks to this experience I learned to use colors as a means of expression.
Later on, I worked as assistant to the set designer of an international theatre company based in Lucca – named Teatro Del Carretto – which became world-wide renowned for its shows where, on stage, we used “artificial actors”, props made with paper -machè.
In 2016 I also co-designed the exhibition Le Stanze del Sogno, in order to trace back the 30-year-long history and recreate the poetics of this experimental theatre company.
At that point of my life, I decided to work full-time as a sculptress. My creations draw inspiration from the Art Noveau – the style that flourished between 1890 and 1910 (with the predominance of Line over Volume), which I reinterpret through a contemporary lens and in my own style.
Mine is a figurative genre but not lifelike. Each statue I carve is devoid of details, as it is basically essential. The subjects are mostly female as they are the expression of an ideal of Beauty in its purest form.
It’s a sort of wonderful challenge, for me, to dream up new creative expressions, to explore new shades designed to achieve, each time, the perfect balance between matter and color… while playing with different emotions: because each sculpture represents a different state of mind.nal theatre company in Lucca ( Italy), creating clay masks and theatre props.
Thanks to this experience I have learned and developed the skills and appreciated the ductility and beauty of this natural material.
Group exhibition:
2019 September Gelleria Intrecciarte , Pietrasanta, Lucca
2019 April / july Galleria Intrecciarte, Pietrasanta, Lucca (Italy)
2019 May Le Rinascenze, Villa Reale Marlia, Lucca
2019 April 21/27 Royal Opera Arcade Gallery, “London on Tour”
London (UK)
2019 January 21/31 Galleria Merlino,” Arts and Crafts” Firenze
(Italy)
2019 January 8/18 Galleria Merlino, “Art Market” Firenze (Italy)
2018 December 22/29 Galleria Merlino, “Art Symposium” Firenze
(Italy)
2018 October 19/21 Carrousel du Louvre, “Artshopping” Paris
(France)
2018 March/October Galleria Intrecciarte, Pietrasanta, Lucca
(Italy)