Paola Pezzi
b. 1963, Italy
Originally from Brescia, Paola Pezzi currently lives and works in Milan. She trained at the Accademia di Brera in Brera, where she studied under two master sculptors, Luciano Fabro and Zeno Birolli. Imbued with the innovative quest that heralded the plastic revolutions of Arte Povera, she made her debut in the 1980s with sculptures that she treated like paintings. Then the artist began exploring the materiality in a personal way, embracing and coaxing ordinary contemporary materials, relics of our time.
Creativity, like life, is a constantly changing and evolving activity. It is this energy, this concept of vital flow, that guides the artist's trajectory, seeping into simple materials to breathe into them an existential vein. The idea of transformation is always present, the complicity between the material and the form created powerful. In an ironic and discreet but never silent game, Paola Pezzi offers amusing constructions that recall the primitive and spontaneous gestures of hypothetical children's games... as if we were returning to the origin of everything. Rubber, polyurethane, cotton swabs, wood, felt or redesigned pencils do the trick. Revealing movement, here they are set up as writing, transformed into little stories of metamorphoses that punctuate and illustrate Paola's life and her art.
The colourful works are beautiful. They are delightful, an instinctive knowledge of presence in the world. They play with distance, scale, space and poetic allusions. A magician with matter, the artist kneads ideas into inert materials. Some works are concentrates, others are without reason. They release the vital energy with which they are charged, an energy that follows the sinuosities of matter and propagates its rhythmic waves towards pure space, without limits. For, since the dawn of time, the flow of life has always been there. Uninterrupted, it is in a constant state of self-evolution and reinvention.
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Originally from Brescia, Paola Pezzi currently lives and works in Milan. She trained at the Accademia di Brera in Brera, where she studied under two master sculptors, Luciano Fabro and Zeno Birolli. Imbued with the innovative quest that heralded the plastic revolutions of Arte Povera, she made her debut in the 1980s with sculptures that she treated like paintings. Then the artist began exploring the materiality in a personal way, embracing and coaxing ordinary contemporary materials, relics of our time.
Creativity, like life, is a constantly changing and evolving activity. It is this energy, this concept of vital flow, that guides the artist's trajectory, seeping into simple materials to breathe into them an existential vein. The idea of transformation is always present, the complicity between the material and the form created powerful. In an ironic and discreet but never silent game, Paola Pezzi offers amusing constructions that recall the primitive and spontaneous gestures of hypothetical children's games... as if we were returning to the origin of everything. Rubber, polyurethane, cotton swabs, wood, felt or redesigned pencils do the trick. Revealing movement, here they are set up as writing, transformed into little stories of metamorphoses that punctuate and illustrate Paola's life and her art.
The colourful works are beautiful. They are delightful, an instinctive knowledge of presence in the world. They play with distance, scale, space and poetic allusions. A magician with matter, the artist kneads ideas into inert materials. Some works are concentrates, others are without reason. They release the vital energy with which they are charged, an energy that follows the sinuosities of matter and propagates its rhythmic waves towards pure space, without limits. For, since the dawn of time, the flow of life has always been there. Uninterrupted, it is in a constant state of self-evolution and reinvention.
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Creativity, like life, is a constantly changing and evolving activity. It is this energy, this concept of vital flow, that guides the artist's trajectory, seeping into simple materials to breathe into them an existential vein. The idea of transformation is always present, the complicity between the material and the form created powerful. In an ironic and discreet but never silent game, Paola Pezzi offers amusing constructions that recall the primitive and spontaneous gestures of hypothetical children's games... as if we were returning to the origin of everything. Rubber, polyurethane, cotton swabs, wood, felt or redesigned pencils do the trick. Revealing movement, here they are set up as writing, transformed into little stories of metamorphoses that punctuate and illustrate Paola's life and her art.
The colourful works are beautiful. They are delightful, an instinctive knowledge of presence in the world. They play with distance, scale, space and poetic allusions. A magician with matter, the artist kneads ideas into inert materials. Some works are concentrates, others are without reason. They release the vital energy with which they are charged, an energy that follows the sinuosities of matter and propagates its rhythmic waves towards pure space, without limits. For, since the dawn of time, the flow of life has always been there. Uninterrupted, it is in a constant state of self-evolution and reinvention.
