Emanuela Camacci
Emanuela Camacci, born in Rome, has loved to draw and create objects with paper and recycled materials since she was a child. Already in elementary school, she experimented with the art of ceramics, modeling clay and personally participating in the firing of her first works.
She graduated from Art School in Rome, then enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome in the Sculpture section. With the continuous desire to learn and experiment with new techniques, she also attended courses in engraving, woodcutting and intaglio printmaking. After graduating, she also undertook training in mosaic art at the laboratory of Costantino Buccolieri, where she worked for three years.
She has participated in numerous temporary exhibitions, such as Segni, a contemporary art exhibition in Turin in 2012, and in artistic interventions of land art in Italy and the world. This includes the GNAP Italy - Global Nomedic Art Project in 2019. Her work also has appeared in many international residencies, such as the Sculpture Symposium in Santiago, Chile in 2017 and the Yatoo International Artist in South Korea in 2018.
Among the materials privileged to give shape to her ideas are stone, wood and clay. However, she also loves to experiment with other media, such as iron and paper, in relation to the purpose and location of the works, even using natural elements.
In the sculptures made for outdoor environments, such as parks or gardens, emerges the ability to give essential and abstract forms to stone, both as an organic element, and by crossing it with minimal geometric elements. In such works, she applies a careful and refined use of different surfaces and textures, which are changeable depending on the light; these unique works always differ from each other in their tactile rendering.
All who have the opportunity to observe the works of Emanuela Camacci is transported into a universe where the harmony and balance of forms and surfaces speak of respect for the environment, living or inanimate, in relationship with man and his space.
Hers is an essential language in which the strength of sculpture knows how to conjugate the poetry of nature, where the links with poor art are mixed with elements of ancient culture and emotional, cultural and cognitive experiences merge in a deep and passionate look at the world.
