Paola Angelini

Paola Angelini (b. 1983, San Benedetto del Tronto, IT) works within a lexicon of motifs inspired by 20th century statuary, Medieval tapestries, Italian art history, her own unconscious, and nature. She is interested in the symbolic value of her recurring motifs such as rearing horses, carved statues, dancers, and demons. She uses traditional materials such as rabbit skin glue and plaster to create an entirely unique surface texture that the artist calls “pictorial flesh”—alive with crevices, cracks, smoothness, and roughness. The figures within her paintings exist somewhere between the lively human world and the eternally static world of stone. Her focused color palettes in contrast with her historical themes create a tension between visual history, archive, and contemporaneity. In the universe of her paintings, time is collapsed as history seeps into our present moment. Angelini lives and works in San Benedetto del Tronto.

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