About artist
Manuela Andreoli was born in Valsolda in 1969, in the province of Como (Italy), where she lives and works. Always interested in shapes and colours, the Lombard artist began in 2000 to transpose, rework and investigate her personal sensations, emotions and feelings on canvas. Initially she experimented with the representation of nature in her paintings but, not satisfied, she approached Raku sculpture. Manuela is attracted by this particular technique of firing Japanese ceramics, born in tune with the Zen spirit because it exalts the harmony of small things, the beauty in simplicity and the naturalness of forms. So it was precisely the fluid forms and elementary colours that soon became the medium and engine of her creativity. His is an ability to create, centred on the almost aniconic expression of what is observed and what is heard (i.e. without images as material representations of the natural and supernatural world, which is art extendable to all living beings and everything that exists). An inspiration that is often also an abstract expression of the proven, of instinct, and that every time manages to go beyond every boundary that can be traced back to spatial and temporal coordinates - with the exception of the support on which the paintings are made. What characterises Andreoli's artistic expression is therefore the stimulation and focus on details, which she presents in an essential guise. And in order to awaken the innate and universal states of mind found in all people - although all too often suffocated by haste and confusion - Manuela uses black, white and red to a large extent. Colours that seem to become orthographic signs and that remain distinct from each other, never appearing disproportionate or excessive. Andreoli explains why she chooses black, white and red predominantly in her works: <<With a few colours I try to tell what I have inside. Darkness and light, black and white, as metaphors of life in an unstable balance between joy and anxiety (...) which calms down when the scene is dominated by love, red>>. The main themes addressed are body, mind and spirit. A triad that starts from and implicitly refers to the physical, psychic and spiritual world Daily experiences and a developed sensitivity characterise the painter from Lombardy, since she says <<I live dreaming, but trying not to lose sight of the reality that allows me to colour my existence, my days>>. Manuela Andreoli boasts numerous important exhibitions and awards, in particular the lifetime achievement award of the Maco Museum, Premio Jacopo da Ponte. Selected for the Milan Biennale at the Brera Site in 2019 and in Miami on the occasion of Art Basel where she presented her exclusive "Turning Cities".