Gisoo Kim/ The art of sewing images

by Romina Ciulli and Carole Dazzi

Treebranches

In her works Gisoo Kim uses a unique photographic collage technique, assembling photographs through embroidery. The works of this Korean artist, now based in Germany, are in fact created by stitching together individual image segments, aiming to stimulate not only different perspective combinations, but above all different emotional reactions. Thus, a new reality unfolds before our eyes, composed of visual elements which harmonize and complement each other thanks to the embroidery woven with needle and thread. Let’s talk to the artist. Read more →

Open dialogues: Serena Ciccone

by Margaret Sgarra, contemporary art curator

Vuoto Fecondo, 2024, dettaglio-installazione

Serena Ciccone is a visual artist who explores the ephemeral and transitory through light, transparency and color. Her installations are forms which manifest in space, suggesting dreamlike, fairy-tale and abstract imagery. She has participated in numerous exhibitions and projects, and is a finalist for the Combat Prize. Read more →

Who’s next?… Benedetta Cappa

by Valentina Biondini, art and literature amateur

Cime arse di solitudine, 1936

Benedetta Cappa was a multifaceted 20th-century Italian artist: painter, writer, set designer… Often obscured, she nevertheless possessed a vibrant personality, so much so that she soon adopted her first name as her pen name, both in her writings and paintings: Benedetta. Read more →

Who’s next?… Mario Reviglione

by Valentina Biondini, art and literature amateur

Intermezzo elegiaco

Mario Reviglione was a painter, and printmaker, close to Symbolism, a forerunner of the Art Deco style, akin to the movement of Magic Realism, and proudly countering the dominant style of the early 20th century. His two favorite subjects were landscape and portrait. In painting nature he drew more heavily on Belgian and French Symbolist tendencies, evident in his views of lakes at the evocative hours of dawn and dusk, while in his portraits he stands out for his utter originality.

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