LUCIA NERI

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By twisting my emotions into recognizable shapes, I evoke a fabulous and dream-like reality otherwise dormant.

By juxtaposing human and cosmic or legendary elements I show how our experience of life is surrounded by other hidden lives kept at distance only because of fear of our most rebellious and consolatory dreams.

The outer space and the representation of the universe in its polymorphism is always present in my artworks and is declined following different significances. From the detail to the principal subject, the philosophical research of the universal spacetime, in which the human can assume infinite positions until the complete self-annihilation, combines with the figurative.

What is our mind if not a wasteland that holds the cosmic power of creation, precisely in its desolation? What does it take to launch the rocket of thought into space? Asks “Starry MindAstroboy”, pictured on the left.

My “personal mythology”, is the ocean of impressions, emotions, metaphors and actors that through philosophy, music and literature have reached and influenced my inner world; the fluid in which I can immerse myself and transform primordial sensations into artworks by visually shaping them.

The in-depth analysis of all these sparks leads to the construction of an allegoric cosmos in which each element holds a precise meaning in relation to the other actors that inhabit my planets. Each surreal setting condenses and translates a significant emotional experience, from which myself in the first place I try to extract a meaning placed beyond the daily space.

“I want to live in every universe created by your tears” (above) is a declaration of love. As, in order not to let your sorrows be wasted, I could create a universe out of every single teardrop and let the water of your eyes be the origin of new lives.

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