Silkscreen By Gabriella Benevolenza

Framed silkscreen print by Gabriella BENEVOLENZA, large format, featuring a work from the first part of the artist's career. Framed dimensions: 80 x 80 cm Dimensions without frame: 70 x 70 cm Biography taken from the artist's website: In 2001, I exhibited my first series on landscapes entitled "horizon lines". The clear and pure tones serve the dreamlike atmosphere of my paintings, creating a particular, almost indescribable universe. Earth and sky, high and low seem to be the reflection of each other. This evocative painting, in search of light, becomes the common thread of my work. The desire to paint landscapes then allows me to escape the tutelage of the subject. My influences will be marked by the impressionists, many of whom remain engraved in my artistic conscience. In 2005, I evolved rapidly, abandoning, for a moment, the landscape and inscribing my work in the living reality of the human being: a representation of Man in his social or intimate environment. The unity is then made around a central subject. I remain faithful to my chromatic choice, cold, dense and luminous but my concentration on the subject radicalizes my composition. Although maintaining close links with the tradition linked to realistic representation, I refuse an academic and codified painting. In my current painting I reflect the need to capture sensations and to remain in the moment. My subjects are varied: objects, landscapes, scenes of life, animals freeze in an uncertain wait. If I am not attached by the scrupulous representation of the physiognomy, the costume, a tree or an animal I nevertheless reflect the attitudes. Tracking down at various moments a fleeting visual truth. The sensation has no other solution than to transform itself into emotion.