female artists

Gisoo Kim/ The art of sewing images

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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

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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

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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 →

Mira Maodus/The creative power of colour

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by Romina Ciulli e Carole Dazzi

Les petits plaisirs

The works of French artist Mira Maodus of Serbian-Russian origin are characterized by complex interactions between shapes and colors, overlapping signs and numbers, giving rise to truly visual narratives with dreamlike and vibrant atmospheres. Her research, in fact, focuses on the very essence of the artistic approach, aiming to free the constraints of the sign in a free and universal creative context. Her professional career, which has evolved from figurative to abstract, includes a fifty-year stint at Atelier 11 in Paris where, through various stories and testimonies, she was influenced by the legacy of artists like Amadeo Modigliani, Chaim Soutine and Constantin Brancusi. Her works have been exhibited in galleries and exhibitions in countries such as Italy, France, Great Britain, the United States, China, Russia, Canada, and more. Let’s talk with the artist. Read more →