47 Anno Domini presents The Body of the Soul.

The exclusive Wine Creative Lab 47 Anno Domini is hosting Alessia Francescato’s solo exhibition.
Her artistic experience is distinguished since her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice by her particular attention to the theme of the body. Initially directed toward plastic experimentation, she later develops an interest in the dimension of the body experienced and perceived through self-portraiture and the dynamic reality of performance. She thus arrives at an intimate relationship with the self, a prerequisite for an investigation of the deep identity often hidden by the physical form.                          The body serves as an original opening to the world; it can be considered as much a vehicle that introduces, as much as an obstacle to overcome in order to fully experience existence. Sometimes it seems foreign, because it is animated by needs in which we do not recognize ourselves, which we cannot we can trace back to the good reasons of meaning and which are beyond our ability to control. This gives rise to the suspended and enigmatic atmospheres of Alessia Francescato’s works that provoke a sense of uncertainty and instability. There emerges a continuous tension toward the precarious search for harmony between body and spirit, which results  in a fluid, free pictorial rendering, an expression of the continuous dichotomy between materiality and immateriality, between figurative and abstract. Color is the medium by which the artist succeeds in conveying a spontaneous and authentic feeling of the stages of the evolution of the self, of the body’s pasts and transformations. The technique is extremely free from predetermined planning and prefers oil painting based on natural earths, spread by liquid glazes that expand on the surface defining light and diaphanous images. The creative process allows detachment from the concreteness of the real to grasp the ineffable, what cannot be explained and told: the relationships between the figures arise as in dreams, almost guided by a symbolism whereby certain objects or bodies represent something deeper. As in a dream vision, the figures do not describe, do not narrate, but suggest subjective meanings and appear free to receive interpretations. This path, has allowed her to expand her research through a process of generalization towards the female world aimed at capturing images and fragments of lived experience of different realities, charged with relationships, labors and challenges. The tonal, delicate and liquid painting lets the continuous tension between the familiarity of the everyday and the struggle for the determination of the reality of women, in its indefinite and elusive nuances, shine through.