Exhibitions, Italy, Reggio Emilia, Reggio nell'Emilia, 06 December 2014
In a fabulous and stunning fantastic world stands a bright, luminescent universe, where life and death perpetually flow around, where creation and destruction make their eternal dance and where the stars of Zodiac follow shine month after month, year after year, in a restless journey, indifferent and unaware of the power and the influence they had since ever.
This is the world that Anna Paglia pictures in her canvas, expressing an intense cosmic surge.
On the trails of the Surrational Movement, her brush goes beyond the real world and gives expression to her imagination, picturing galaxies, shining nebulas, bright stellar ways trapping the observer’s eye. Anna’s fluid brush stroke actually stands for the key to new, possible worlds, where some other beings could live, grow and die along the inevitable and perpetual journey of Chronos.
Why galaxies? Because galaxies well represent the painter’s will to explore not only the sphere of art, but also the sphere of the psyche, giving rise to a whirlwind of emotions, sometimes even conflicting, that express well the most intangible and heavenly part of the human being, in a constant and mysterious evolution.
These surprising and luminous works, rich in glowing brush strokes and dotted with led lights, witness for the artist’s personal and artistic maturity.
Human creativity challenges the otherworldly dimension with the mysteries and the secrets it hides in its shrine.
This is how Anna Paglia started her incredible adventure, her fantastic journey to investigate her inner universe, exploring some of the most hidden corners of her soul.
The swirls of her luminescent and coloured galaxies stood still in her mind and are now introduced to us, who can now witness for their existence.
Looking at the painting, we do take part in its creative process and feed it with the additional energy it needs to develop and evolve furtherly.
What is the destiny of these intimate galaxies? What will they be? Maybe their destiny is written in the constellations of the Zodiac, which since the very ancient times are seen as the keepers of the most unrevealed secrets of life, ruled by Fate which determines humans’ fortune.
As for the Fates of the ancient Greek mythology, the Twelve Signs rule over the skies as well as Anna Paglia’s paintings stress their powerful influence not only in our imagination, but, to most of us, also in our ordinary life.
This is the surprise, the illusion and, at some extent, the slight fear that humans feel in front of such art work.
Even in the age of satellites, such atavic symbols exercise a strong influence, the same they have been exercising over the centuries, when they were asked in fear and trepidation as oracles able to show one’s way.
In a crosscutting contamination, God’s Creation and Raffaello’s Transfiguration of Jesus are pictured in a sumptuous triptych which dominates the observer and captures his look, emphasizing the fear of God powerfully expressed among the pigments of a deep, intense and even immortal colour arousing love and compassion.
The sacred and the immensity harmonically blend into a vivid, pictorial ecstasy involving both mind and soul.
That’s the power of art: its way to provide for a spiritual and moral guidance which leads humans, as a manifold, versatile Virgil through a series of worlds inaccessible to mortals and yet visible to their eye.
Bewilderment and desire mingle together to arouse the observer’s curiosity, eager to learn and discover more, longing for an inner and immense wisdom that generates life.
Bright and shining cosmic paths hit the observer with no injure, and yet providing an impalpable healing touch thanks to the harmonic mix of colours and shades that do not seem to belong to this dimension of reality.
Thanks to her outstanding art skills, Anna Paglia succeeded in providing an impeccable representation of the world’s beauties – either real or fancy – featured by pictorial artifices which make each subject extremely real and true. As a telescopic lens focused on her inner world, she offers us the manifold facets of a restless, bright and radiant personality.
This is the world that Anna Paglia pictures in her canvas, expressing an intense cosmic surge.
On the trails of the Surrational Movement, her brush goes beyond the real world and gives expression to her imagination, picturing galaxies, shining nebulas, bright stellar ways trapping the observer’s eye. Anna’s fluid brush stroke actually stands for the key to new, possible worlds, where some other beings could live, grow and die along the inevitable and perpetual journey of Chronos.
Why galaxies? Because galaxies well represent the painter’s will to explore not only the sphere of art, but also the sphere of the psyche, giving rise to a whirlwind of emotions, sometimes even conflicting, that express well the most intangible and heavenly part of the human being, in a constant and mysterious evolution.
These surprising and luminous works, rich in glowing brush strokes and dotted with led lights, witness for the artist’s personal and artistic maturity.
Human creativity challenges the otherworldly dimension with the mysteries and the secrets it hides in its shrine.
This is how Anna Paglia started her incredible adventure, her fantastic journey to investigate her inner universe, exploring some of the most hidden corners of her soul.
The swirls of her luminescent and coloured galaxies stood still in her mind and are now introduced to us, who can now witness for their existence.
Looking at the painting, we do take part in its creative process and feed it with the additional energy it needs to develop and evolve furtherly.
What is the destiny of these intimate galaxies? What will they be? Maybe their destiny is written in the constellations of the Zodiac, which since the very ancient times are seen as the keepers of the most unrevealed secrets of life, ruled by Fate which determines humans’ fortune.
As for the Fates of the ancient Greek mythology, the Twelve Signs rule over the skies as well as Anna Paglia’s paintings stress their powerful influence not only in our imagination, but, to most of us, also in our ordinary life.
This is the surprise, the illusion and, at some extent, the slight fear that humans feel in front of such art work.
Even in the age of satellites, such atavic symbols exercise a strong influence, the same they have been exercising over the centuries, when they were asked in fear and trepidation as oracles able to show one’s way.
In a crosscutting contamination, God’s Creation and Raffaello’s Transfiguration of Jesus are pictured in a sumptuous triptych which dominates the observer and captures his look, emphasizing the fear of God powerfully expressed among the pigments of a deep, intense and even immortal colour arousing love and compassion.
The sacred and the immensity harmonically blend into a vivid, pictorial ecstasy involving both mind and soul.
That’s the power of art: its way to provide for a spiritual and moral guidance which leads humans, as a manifold, versatile Virgil through a series of worlds inaccessible to mortals and yet visible to their eye.
Bewilderment and desire mingle together to arouse the observer’s curiosity, eager to learn and discover more, longing for an inner and immense wisdom that generates life.
Bright and shining cosmic paths hit the observer with no injure, and yet providing an impalpable healing touch thanks to the harmonic mix of colours and shades that do not seem to belong to this dimension of reality.
Thanks to her outstanding art skills, Anna Paglia succeeded in providing an impeccable representation of the world’s beauties – either real or fancy – featured by pictorial artifices which make each subject extremely real and true. As a telescopic lens focused on her inner world, she offers us the manifold facets of a restless, bright and radiant personality.
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