St Valentine's day is fast approaching (Febuary 14th) We have new works in by Giuliana Lazzerini........
Giuliana Lazzerini was born in Seravezza near
Pietrasanta in Tuscany. Between 1962 and 1968 she was a student at the Istituto
D'Arte Stagio Stagi in Pietrasanta, gaining a Master of Arts Diploma. This
was followed by a further four years studying painting at the Accademia di
Belle Arti di Carrara. The Tuscan landscape and childhood memories still bear a strong
influence upon the artist's current work. In an earlier statement she
describes her first encounters with art in Italy as a child in her
father's mosaic studio. She refers to the "translucency of the mosaic
fragment" and her "fascination with the vibrancy of colour" from the
juxtapositioning of the pieces.
These early perceptions, several years on, provide a language and a
vocabulary for her pictures in terms of colour, surface, scale of which
she uses in the construction of her tapestry-like, interlocking,
angular-surfaced village landscapes. Architecture exists within a shallow space; Structures are locked
together through a medieval, narrative sort of pictorial logic. The
viewer's eye is then led through and across these interweaving spaces
with the most seductive and delightful channels of colour.
In other works Lazzerini depicts solitary portrait images. Figures often
appear with props - shells, cups and boats. There are equestrian
references. Are these characters the inhabitants of Lazzerini's
interlocking Tuscan villages, or part of some ceremonial ritual? These
pictures show an economy in terms of compositional design, with richness
of surface mark and colour, reconfirming the artist's earlier delight
in light and transparency.
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