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Profile Silvia Martignago (1975) Silvia paints since she was five. She does it instinctively. For this she is completely self-taught, despite the studies, readings, visits with artists and artistic circles. In her paintings we can always find a landscape whether it belongs to the soul, or the world outside us. That which bridges the different themes of her work is the search for an almost emotional immediacy in her expressive method. The tension in her figurative work and the suggestiveness of her landscapes are free of the typical restrictions which give them an essentiality of color and a material strength in lines. There is also a kind of abstract expressionism added that makes the only essential language from pure perceptions. Main Solo Exhibitions
2004 Soho Art Circle / New York (USA) Art Review Each artist searches for their Absolute. This Absolute, however, is limited by something more relative: individual emotion. Silvia Martignago’s art is an introspective journey, a path leading her to the discovery of the potential of the human soul. Searching for perfect harmony between the internal and the external she dissolves the barrier between man and nature. From the painter Sergio Favotto, her teacher, she has learnt the academic rules of construction, colour and figurative painting. Her personality, however, has led her to develop the expression of pure colour, by giving secondary importance to the subject and (as opposed to creating colour in the light) drawing light from colour. Whereas composition tends toward harmony, conflict liberates emotion. Small specks of colour condense all the energy of life, and these specks when observed from a distance become one. Martignago harnesses the force which radiates from colour, enriching and distinguishing it in her landscapes and grassy expanses which merge toward the sky and become one. The details in the foreground, which simply provide the subject, give way to depth and to “taches” of colour which, set against each other. As nature does not have fixed points, each theme radiates a different sensation. This “diversity” reflecting the changing force of nature, is where Silvia Martignago’s painting comes into its own. Her work stimulates the eye in front of an ever-changing nature, tuning the senses through colour and diversity, enriching them one and the other. In this way her paintings become “chromatic scores”, fluent and resonant, which find light through skilful composition, and create a vibrant harmony composed of chords of yellow, blue, red and green transforming nature into a glorious colourful concert. Lucia Majer |
