My work combines the disciplines of painting, sculpture and installation and is centred on the theme of nature, where my aim is to speak of an ephemeral and harmonious world, turning the anthropocentric principles of modern life on their head. 

Installation

The ‘inside Plexiglass’ series involves the creation of microcosms that appear to protect and suspend all they contain, and introduces concepts of stratification while contemplating a process of densification/diminution that aims to achieve an essential form of representation inspired by the natural world, and an interweaving action where nature gradually gains predominance over all man-made constructions.

Inside plexiglas

In the ‘Art Book’ series I have emphasised the temporal aspect of reading as an experience, with its three fundamental phases: firstly ignorance of the object’s contents, which endows it with a mysterious quality, then the phase of absorption, and finally the conclusion of the process with the internalisation of its meaning. In some cases the Art Books also become symbolic containers of thoughts, in others they are an abstract narrative of nature formed through the use of materials offered by nature itself…

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Giulia Spernazza