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

Mira Maodus/The creative power of colour

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

Annalisa Parisii/Art on the verge: a poetic transformation through AI

by Carole Dazzi e Romina Ciulli

Il dramma, Psiche series, 2024

The artistic project of Annalisa Parisii is a captivating journey between the new creative possibilities offered by generative art and the certainties of traditional painting. Drawing on the atmospheres of Metaphysical Art and Magical Realism, the space of representation is a familiar, evolving place, suspended and silent. A space where the viewer is invited to reflect deeply on his own existence and the certainties of everyday life, encouraged to imagine new stories and magical dimensions. Read more