"My artwork is an exploration of the self, constructing a narrative with movement and expression, using my body as an abstract landscape. Even thought the starting point is the density of personal experience, these emotional states are triggers to a creative process where I loose the sense of self, entering a kind of numbness where the empty space/mind are guided by instinct".
Lucia Pizzani
The interest of autobiography, then, is not that it reveals reliable self-knowledge - it does not - but that it demonstrates in a striking way the impossibility of closure and of totalization (that is the impossibility of coming into being) of all textual systems made up of tropological substitutions.
Paul de Man
Lucia Pizzani
Lucia Pizzani works the digital medium after graduating in Visual Communication in the “Catholic University Andrés Bello” (Caracas Venezuela), where she studied photography and cinema among other courses dealing with the visual language. The main subject of Pizzani’s art is a human vision of nature: pure and urbanized in an aesthetic frame work that amplifies the beauty of its colors, textures and patrons. She shoot leaves, shells and fungus concentrating in a macro vision that brings out the micro world living there; and at the same time she focuses in the city floors looking for that encounter between the human footprints and natural elements such as snow, ice and flowers. Besides that, the Venezuelan landscape is a recurrent theme as a series of self-portraits looking in to the human subject in the mirror.
Her interest in the environment brought her to work with the Non Profit Provita since 1997 in the area of communications and journalism. Currently she is represents Provita in NY and just finished a Certificate in Conservation Biology in Columbia University.
She has exhibited her work at the group show Urban/Nature in the Mapplethorpe Studio in Chelsea NY, in “Amazonas” at the Venezuelan Consulate’s Gallery in NY, the Solar Gallery (East Hampton) NY, and P-Loft DUMBO NY an installation of emerging Latin American artists. Her photographs have been published in the magazine “Faces” and “Parajes”, the Bulletin of the CERC’s Columbia University and the Web site Starmedia. She recently published Provita’s Calendar (EcoAgenda 2003) about Venezuelan Orchids with her exclusive images.
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