Artist is like a scientist or a researcher, investigating the matter of the soul. I let my subconscious free to lead me towards what I don’t know, and this is exciting and frighting at the same time.
There is a very strong affinity between the disciplines of painting and writing. Like a dancer following a choreography, the hand moves on the canvas or on the blank page, creating or discovering new realities and unexpected dimensions. My work is multidisciplinary, but I’m essentially a painter, or rather, as I like to call myself, a painter who writes or a writer who paints.
I educate my hands and my mind as a painter, and I mix media like I mix colours. I’m strongly influenced by nature and landscape and fascinated by the immersive power of storytelling: I’ve developed a body of work which deftly subverts the perceived boundaries between representation and abstraction, and I like to investigate things on the edge, those without a name, which sometimes turn into something else.
Studying architecture at the Institute of Architecture in Venice, I had the opportunity to get in touch with the artistic world of this prolific town and its Biennale and I had many collaborations with international artists, developing a curiosity for sculpture and installation as well, learning the power of materials and lights and the theatrical relationship between artworks and space.
I’m always looking for new ways to represent harmony between the unexpected and the systematic, and since I started painting with hypnotherapy, much of my work is also related to the evocations of the dream state: words pouring from objects or scenes of a daily life as a waterfall of memories.
Born on Lake Garda (Italy), Silvia Righetti has discovered the passion for writing and painting very young.
After being trained by the painter Maurizio Zanolli and participating in many local exhibitions, she moved to Venice, where she obtained a Degree in Architecture, specialising in Contemporary Theatre, and where she worked for independent projects and the Art and Architecture Biennale, having many collaborations with national and international artists.
She completed her architectural studies in Paris, at the School of Architecture of Paris Belleville, and back to Venice she started a long collaboration with multimedia artist Federica Marangoni.
She worked at the Remy Toledo Gallery in New York, and in 2007, she has relocated to UK, where she has been involved in many multidisciplinary projects, at the same time continuing her creative research in painting and writing, exhibiting in galleries and participating in several group and solo exhibitions between Glasgow and London.
She lives and works between London and the Lake Garda.
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