About Paola Consonni

The subject is only a pretext, this is a thought that I made my own.

For this reason I have dealt with various themes; starting from the depth of the flesh and from the wounds, to then continue with faces in movement, or deformed by the reflection in a broken mirror, and again with particular features just mentioned, up to the series that I called maps, real or imaginary states that they are characterized by boundaries - scars, rendered with the cut of the canvas subsequently sewn to give the sense of the wounds that are inflicted to the populations.

At this point I suspended the pictorial research, taking a pause for reflection and I dedicated myself to designing installations in which I summarized the most famous fables in a few fundamental acts to revisit a classic theme, the via crucis.

This experience was necessary to find a trade d'union between my two natures: the pictorial one and the graphic one, marked with strong signs. Hence the new works such as the studies of faces and the more recent ones of the presences that suddenly appear with more or less marked features, a study that has just begun.