About artist
Sabrina Gioia Mercedes Deserò Lolli, in art more simply Gioia Lolli was born in Cassano Magnano, but currently lives in Bordighera.
There, very close to the French Riviera, she is president of the association I Colori della Gioia di Sanremo. A modern and generous patron, she has set herself the goal of promoting talented creatives living in Liguria through exhibitions and various cultural, artistic and musical initiatives. Among its pictorial exhibitions we remember the Personal "Night of Notes" in the city of Sanremo. Title itself given to the name of a wine of her production, whose sticker reproduces the homonymous painting she created for Valentine's Day. Grown up in the midst of art, a childhood friend to whom she has remained faithful today with renewed constancy, Lolli began painting as a child. She was the granddaughter of Gino Deserò, a landscape painter of good reputation, who served as her pictorial input. She soon became familiar with her parents' frame store and art gallery, as well as her grandparents' passion for music and musical instruments. In her home there were works of art by artists of all kinds, who assiduously frequented the family home on Lake Maggiore. Inevitable artistic studies.
The first working engagements of the Lombard painter were some drawings of bottles and boxes of perfumes; among the most recent engagements was the one for the realization of the labels of fine wines such as Barbera d'Asti Superiore and Monferrato Sauvignon Bianco, of a wine company of Calamandrana. A concentric motif that seems to radiate in centripetal and centrifugal motion often characterizes his works. The figures that emerge from his brushes usually converge in a central point, but a moment later one has the impression that the images expand outwards, transforming the canvas into a sort of kaleidoscope. Another main element, recurring, in Gioia Lolli's pictorial creations is the ruby heart defined by the "center of the soul and intelligence. An Egyptian symbol that unites everyone, from Islam to Hinduism", among metaphorical and concrete accents of eroticism and esotericism. From the exterior to the intimate and vice versa. Often the subject is the Heart between volumes and colors that Vittorio Sgarbi describes as <<(...) sugary ornaments of pictorial pastry, doodles of refined artistic gastronomy that Gioia Lolli gets from a gesture based on shapes and colors of archetypal essentiality (...) red, white and black, as in playing cards. Images of auroral emancipations from the indistinct, coagulated as if they were Schifano, sometimes struggling with Picassian inserts of papiers collés, which in simulating instinctive automatism pursue the maximum possible correspondence between sincerity of mind, inspiration and expression>>. A woman who loves to exalt life in its universal and common beauty, going beyond any time and place because energy and passion have neither faith nor nation. It is worth remembering how Gioia Lolli supports an incessant activity on the front of veganism and animal protection.
Many are the collective artistic exhibitions in which she took part. Her creativity is well known in European and non-European countries as well as admired and permanently hosted in luxurious accommodations.