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self-taught artist from Florence. The initial spark for her art was the
intuition that the materials found in nature could become the “building blocks”
of the works that already took shape in
her mind. Silvia’s art and technique emanate from the observation of perfection
that already resides within a natural element: the veins of a leaf, a
spiral-shaped seed or the concentric circles inside wood. She started in late
2005 and soon after she decided she wanted to
transform this intuition and passion into a job. Silvia challenges
herself to value these elements leaving
them recognizable in her work but at the same time making them basic language
to depict every time different subjects: an acorn can become the eye of an owl,
a pine cone becomes the fin of a fish ... The challenge also lies in the large
number of materials contamination with a great sense of the game but at the
same time research of harmony. Thanks to
the endless possibilities of the wood malleability combined to the
revolutionary contamination with other materials, Silvia invented her
expressive language of "materic fusion " which sails on free route
between art and craft, overcoming and
erasing their boundaries.
Her
works seem to be a magical dialogue between Man and Nature, where the latter is
the language but ALSO the main subject.
Silvia’s “child soul” is
especially evident in the Fairy Tales and Legends "illustrated" on
old boards with vertical orientated landscapes that seem to reach a higher and
higher "Elsewhere", which is reachable but at the same time elusive
and, for this reason, the inspiration for a new work . Other
"families" of subjects are the
colorful dreamy animals and finally the
cities and skylines made of boards, pallets , doors and windows frames, where
the human element harmoniously coexists
with Nature.
Since 2007 Silvia exhibits her work in
personal and collective Art exhibitions . Thanks to the web diffusion ,
Silvia’s artworks are known and purchased by customers in various corners of the planet. On May 2013 a short documentary on Silvia’s unusual
artistic path came to life from a
project of the young director Jaclyn Edmonson and her team of Middle Tennessee
State University, led by the famous documentary filmmaker Tom Neff (Founder of
the Documentary Channel and nominated for an Academy Award with one of his
documentaries). The title is SBOCCIARE (Italian word for : “to blossom” , the
short film is about pursuing the “art within” despite all odds ) and it should
be aired on PBS network in the United States after having already collected
major awards on the Independent Cinema Festivals circuit (below: poster of the
documentary with some of the won awards). In October 2014 Silvia is asked to
take part to an independent film by the
Californian producer and Director Christopher Pratt. Silvia plays the role of
an artist that just as she works with the language of Nature: a small part that
was specifically "sewn on." her. The film will see the light in 2015.
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