Leonilde Carabba - Lightness of Beauty

The subject of this work was conceived through a citationist approach. In the phenomenology of artistic movements, citationism consists of reproposing an image from the past, from the historical-artistic tradition, recontextualizing it according to the artist's sensibility. Citationism has been and is transversal to various contemporary artistic movements, such as Surrealism, Metaphysical Art, and Anachronism. LeoNilde Carabba's citationist production is nourished by diverse stimuli and creative processes that lead to consistently original and surprising results.

In this work, LeoNilde Carabba's artistic process consists of selecting images from the art of the past (from the 15th and 16th centuries, or even from the classical world) and reconfiguring them in her paintings. These are fragments of historicized images that, through the collage technique, acquire a hyperrealist appearance. From this starting point, LeoNilde Carabba leads the viewer on a journey into the ancient world, to discover a connection with our roots, becoming a conduit for a strong connection between past and present. All this, however, presupposes the artist's reworking, in order to avoid a simple exercise in pedantry. From this perspective, LeoNilde Carabba imbues her quotation with new meaning, first and foremost by giving a precise artistic value to the pictorial material (a fundamental element in contemporary aesthetics). Thus, the entire ancient image takes on a new meaning, thanks to the pictorial intervention which, as always, in LeoNilde Carabba, is inspired by the gestures of abstract expressionism.

LeoNilde Carabba, born in Monza in 1938 and currently residing in Milan, likes to define herself as "a painter and a traveler who loves to explore territories and cross borders". In 1961 LeoNilde held her first solo exhibitions. The following years saw her increasingly involved in the art world, where she received the support and formative influence of artists such as Lucio Fontana, Hsiao Chin, Roberto Crippa, Enrico Baj, Turcato, Tancredi, Jean Fautrier, Piero Manzoni, Christo and Carla Accardi. In 1966 she began experiments on the refraction of light, achieving, through the use of glass microspheres, a surface with a light intensity that varied according to the viewer's angle of vision without the need for mechanical means. If Lucio Fontana had previously presented her own exhibition (1964), in 1969 she exhibited with him and Bruno Munari in "Il Segno e l'Oggetto" at the Galleria Cadario in Caravate. In 1975, she co-founded the Women's Bookshop in Milan. In 1976, she founded the Beato Angelico Cooperative with Carla Accardi, Nedda Guidi, Eva Menzio, Suzane Santoro, Silvia Truppi, and others. She currently works in both Italy and Germany.

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