Alessandra Brustolon

Lives and works in Italy

Artist statement

Alessandra Zorzi's work has always manifested itself in a thematic way. The first exhibition, in Treviso, in 1998, was affected by a 'circular' vision, in which above and below, right and left, but also incongruent dimensions, were confused as it happens when seeing the world from an airplane: spatial perceptions are modified both horizontally and vertically, changing horizon and altitude; it was the period of flight, a time when the artist's experiences and points of view were being reshaped by her obtaining her pilot's license. In 2000 her work materialized in a thematic research that started from Renaissance art: a figuration that takes inspiration from 'christology', revised and repurposed in surreal and visionary terms. With the exhibitions on 'Babelopoli' 2003-2005, the surreal and even grotesque aspects became strengthened and so did her interest in technological mediums, especially digital animation. In 2007 in Mantua a pessimistic vision of existence, determined by the political and environmental factors of the historical present, prevail in her so-called 'organic' paintings, where decaying matter and noxious swirls clutter the canvas claustrophobically. In the three 2010-2011 exhibitions dedicated to 'Gabbie per signora', we are presented with a more overtly feminist reading of the world, feminine in its respect of the 'culture of differences': an excursus focused on women and on the countless limitations, and real "tortures" that every male society has sought or...

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