dilEtta FEroldi

My work comprehends a combination of paintings and sculptures that illustrate some strong influences from artists like Escher, De Chirico, Dali and Da Vinci. For example my pieces alternate from a surrealistic style to a more figurative one. Escher’s influence can be observed in my first works as the objects of the painting that are repeating themselves throughout the piece creating a specific pattern which is a typical technique of the artist. My pieces then started to follow a more abstract conception, exploring the techniques and style of Futurist artists. I tried to give a sense of movement to my pieces by overlapping straight and well-defined figures with smoother subjects and lines. After I included the abstract development of vases (which have been a recurring subject in the first part of my journey) with Futurist influences in my work I started a study on graffiti. Furthermore, the distortion of vases and graffiti brought me to the distortion of corpses which was the initial inspiration to many of my works. In the second part of my project, De Chirico was the artist which inspired me the most and it is observable as the features of the subjects and background in my pieces have some very similar characteristics to the ones the artist portrays. Finally by also looking at artists like Magritte, Bansky and Christo & JeanneClaude I started producing work specifically on the anatomy of both humans and animals exploring in depth the theme of covering and uncovering entities to focus on the true nature of them instead of their appearance. I firstly looked at the skull of bears and afterwards by looking at Da Vinci’s works I continued to paint the body of humans portraying both external and internal features.