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The Art of Alessia Iannetti
Alessia Iannetti was born in Carrara (Italy) in 1985 and graduated at the Accademy of Fine Arts where she had the opportunity to study with the famous Artist and Professor Omar Galliani from whom she inherited the complex graphite on board thechnique as “Estigmate” of the most faschinating contemporary illustration, with its cinematographic views and close ups made of blacks and whites and infinite variations of gray, that give back to the monochrome and the drawing the excellence of intensity.
As a reply to modern conceptual lenguage, no more so deeply contemporary, Alessia Iannetti, already placed between the most interesting artists from New Pop and New Surrealism international scene, offers a highcultured Art, which is aware of its figurative turn and proudly follows the onirical and surrealistic aspects of Neoclassicism movement.
As a queen of the darkness and of the most intense Must of Noir, Alessia Iannetti chooses to seduce not by using fear or anxiety, but by pushing our look through a different intimate dimension, where rational codes are upside down as in dreams and so silence talks about the delicate flight of the butterflyes and about the hidden beating heart occupied by all the colors of beauty, which is now ready to implode in order to let colors spread out.
Her Artworks are penetrated by a nocturnal mysticism, inspired by the obscure tunes of the Dark anglosaxon culture (the Artist referes to it by using the same titles of authors such as Smashing Pumpkins, Joy Division, The Cure, Hole...) but they suggest a kind of extremely elaborated “Theme of Shadow” that carries inside both the sublime Art Nouveau Style of V. Corcos, D. G. Rossetti and F. Khnopff masterpieces and the hipnotical, romantic and dusty code of Margaret Cameron’s, Lady Hardawen’s and even Lewis Carroll’s photography, marking the accent on the natural solemnity of the characters.
In this way her models are called to represent fragile girls on the boundary between mythology and everyday life and they are submerged in the leaves of gray woods which led the artist to manipulate their light and shadows as in the legendary Cameron’s “Glass House”. While the misterious and souspended atmospheres, where the girls are immaginated, are so evocative that are able to cause a mystic illusion that makes us hear their whispers and swishes, reminding J. Lindsay’s literature and in particular the great masterpiece by P. Weir “Picnic at Hanging Rock”.
Text by Alexandra Mazzanti
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L'arte di Alessia Iannetti
Alessia Iannetti è nata a Carrara nel 1985 e ha frequentato l’Accademia di Belle Arti presso la cattedra del Maestro Omar Galliani da cui eredita, oltre alla sapiente tecnica della grafite su tavola, “le stigmate” della più affascinante illustrazione contemporanea, delle sue prospettive, dalle inquadrature cinematografiche, fatte di bianchi e neri e di infinite declinazioni di grigi, che restituiscono al monocromo e al disegno l’eccellenza della profondità. Siamo di fronte ad un’arte colta, sicura rispetto alla sua virata figurativa e fiera della sua adesione ad un Neoclassicismo onirico e surreale che oggi colloca la Iannetti tra i più interessanti artisti della scena Neo Surrealista e Neo Pop di livello internazionale, in risposta ad un linguaggio concettuale oggi troppo poco Contemporaneo.
Padrona del buio e del più intenso Noir d’autore, la Iannetti non sceglie di sedurre attraverso la paura o l’inquietudine, ma spinge il nostro sguardo verso un’intima dimensione altra, in cui i parametri razionali sono rovesciati come in un sogno ed è il silenzio a parlare, di fragili battiti d’ali, del nascosto cuore gonfio, abitato dai tanti colori della bellezza e pronto a lasciarsi implodere per portarli alla luce.
Le sue opere sono pervase da un misticismo notturno, ispirato dalle note scure dell’immaginario Dark anglosassone,(a cui l’artista fa preciso riferimento omaggiando nei titoli delle sue opere autori quali Smashing Pumpkins, Joy Division, The Cure, Hole…) ma suggeriscono un Tema dell’Ombra estremamente elaborato che porta dentro di sè, sia il sublime liberty della pittura di V. Corcos, D.G. Rossetti e F. Khnopff, sia l’ipnotica cifra “personale”, romantica e polverosa della fotografia di Margaret Cameron, Lady Hardawen e dello stesso Lewis Carroll, ponendo l’accento su una spontanea teatralità dei personaggi. Così, le sue modelle sono chiamate a rappresentare fragili fanciulle in bilico tra mito e quotidianità, e vengono immerse tra foglie di boschi grigi che consentono all’artista di manipolarne le luci e le ombre come in una sorta di Cameroniana “Glass House”. Mentre le atmosfere misteriose e sospese, dove esse si trovano avvolte, sono tanto evocative da essere capaci di provocare nello spettatore la mistica illusione di percepirne i sussurri e i fruscii, rimandandoci inevitabilmente alla letteratura di J. Lindsay, e in particolare al celebre capolavoro cinematografico di P. Weir “Picnic ad Hanging Rock” .
Testo a cura di Alexandra Mazzanti
Exhibitions:
-"Green Blood",Charithy Group Show curated by Alexandra Mazzanti and Tara McPherson, from June 14th, to July 20th 2012, Dorothy Circus Gallery, Rome, Italy.
-"Pop Surrealism - Stay Foolish!", Group Show curated by Alexandra Mazzanti and Alessandro Icardi in collaboration with Dorothy Circus Gallery of Rome, from July 6th till July 29th 2012, Museo Casa del Conte Verde, Rivoli, Italy.
-"Go with the Flow", Group Show curated by Alberto Mattia Martini in collaboration with Bonelli Arte Contemporanea & ArtLab, from 11st August to 2nd September 2012, Villa Bottini, Lucca, Italy.
"Painted Sound",Group Show curated by Ixie Darkonn and Alexandra Mazzanti in collaboration with Dorothy Circus Gallery of Rome, from January 26th to February 28th 2013, Flower Pepper Gallery, Pasadena, USA.
"Daphne Descends", Solo Show, curated by Alexandra Mazzanti, from February 23rd to April 6th 2013, Dorothy Circus Gallery, Rome, Italy.
Represented by: Dorothy Circus Gallery (Rome)
http://dorothycircusgallery.com
