Elisa Filomena
B. 1976, Turin, Italy, where she lives and works. She graduated in Painting at Turin Academy of Fine Arts and subsequently continued to deepen her artistic research through the ongoing extensive research, production and experimentation carried out in over 25 years. She has been recently chosen to receive the grant awarded by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation of New York and her works appeared internationally on the covers and pages of contemporary art magazines. From 1997 onwards, both in Italy and abroad (France, Germany, U.K., U.S.A.), numerous key galleries and museums have widely featured Filomena’s work as well.
The persistent quest focuses on the human figure and nature, both experienced as everlasting and tender forces in contrast and harmony with the transience of existence. The quenchless research comes into being through drawings and paintings.
The drawings are made by means of crayons that are reduced to pigment to be modelled and applied directly with the finger pads on the paper. Painting is mainly manifested on large-sized canvases. It draws significantly from pictures of the late 1800s up to the 1970s. There is no preparatory sketch, while the brush traces the elements as well as the composition of the work directly with colour.
