Ancient informal - Daniela Domenichini

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Ancient informal

ANCIENT INFORMAL
Cristina Improta Art Historian and Director of "Opificio delle Pietre Dure"

If there’s one thing reflecting someone’s worth more than anything else, that’s their willingness to question themselves. Her determined face, her lively glance lit by light-coloured and very vivacious eyes, are the most authentic expression of a curious woman who is voracious in her appetites and throws herself in when something strikes her imagery, provided it’s endowed with even the slightest imperceptible form of beauty. Beauty is indeed Daniela’s main source of search, especially at this stage of her life.
Despite her scientific background, she decided to take up a new chapter of her life by graduating from the Accademia delle Belle Arti; her work was informed by heartfelt passion and eagerness, as one can see from her portraits reproducing a refined pictorial image as well as a psychologically dissected inner side. This is, unquestionably, quality work.
She is interested – and she experiments on – a variety of materials: copper for engraving, the ephemeral lightness of silk, and ceramic. Through a chromatic modulation that is occasionally raw while sometimes solar and dazzling, her works reveal her eagerness to deal with reality, and the essential key to her soul: never take things for granted, make the most of every moment in life to probe deeper and expand your sphere of knowledge. Her life takes her to more in-depth humanistic and intellectual research, as a basis for a more intense and mature effort, with added emphasis on the materials, in an informal attempt that might even come across as ancient; a very successful alliance that releases a powerful energy.
This is Daniela Domenichini as I know her: sweet and romantically inspired in her portraits, dense and full-bodied in the colours she juxtaposes on the variety of materials – including the most traditional ones – and indissolubly open to experimentation with the freshness of an adolescent.