Through
the painting I mean to create an alternative universe inhabited
with characters, models and expressions imported from an artificial
reality generated by the media, and to explore the unforeseeable
emotional tensions provoked in them by the unreal context
in which they are cast and which forces them to acquire an
originally undesired auto-conscience. I assimilate everything
I happen to see selecting and analyzing the beauty "canon"
in a over-lighted world governed by all sort of images and
fantasies, that make at the end the originality trivial. Behind
each work there is a project that often begins with a word-sound
or an image-vision where the research of the expression is
constant: the meeting may occur occasionally, captured by
a digital photo-camera or elaborated through the inexhaustible
daily flow of all kinds of transmissions, in which the apparently
fortuitous combinations of images that "overlap"
outlines the profile of impossible surrondings and relations
between objects and characters. Chasing or not literary and
movie suggestions, I' m interested in inventing and rebuilding
through imagination other versions of things and people conferring
to them a new semantic capacity and placing them in what I
call a "reality-set ", a condition between reality
and imagination, where search for beauty is constant, an utopic
ideal through which I express the idea of the existence of
immortality, since death exist only in reality. A form of
communication that remains suspended in an intermediate phase:
a scenary that may offer a wide spectrum of possibilities
in which to identify oneself.
2.
On The Ground
The
accuracy of the line is fundamental and it is directly expressed
in the drawing on wood panel. In this way my paintings are
born twice: the first at the end of the grafite and the eraser
work, the second time weighting colors lights and shadows,
dimming and nuances that enrich the natural weft but sometimes
leaving it's venation perceivable.
(translated
from the art magazine ARTE MONDADORI)
Fifth Element.
Looking for missing beauty.
by Beba Marsano - critic and curator
Annamaria
Centola brews from media. A perfection unknown in nature.
Sensuous Idols from fashon images. They are stolen from the
cinema, the advertisement, glossy pages of fashion magazines,
from the actual jet-set. The one whose divas were Marlene
Dietrich, Grace Kelly or Jackie Kennedy Onassis. Mysterious
and famorous girls like whom Annamaria Centola portrays. They
wear glasses with big round frames, similar to those warn
by Jackie. As the artist did with Grace who was the classical
ante-litteram, rich and famous star . Of Marlene they have
the restless and deep glance, a little allusive, full of promises
and daring. A glance that gradually, gives away a cheerful
and catchy laughter. About these girls communicate only through
their details: lips, drawn eyebrows, polished nails, mascara
glances or often disguised under thick sun glasses. Centola
(1966, Rome, Italy) makes her womanly universe as a visual,
creative art, associated to single movie frames, close up
realistic-set where even triptiychs have the trend of a sequence
plan. It's an art work which proposes hyperrealism, and its
own over-magnified details. A highly "fashion" painting
which takes nurishment from media images and from cover-like
beauty. However it's not a decorative painting. These young
women aren't satisfied to be Idols. They are something more.
Through their face and gesture actractive power, theire radiant,
and contagious sensuousness are indeed The Fifth Element,
The Fifth Season. In other words what the world lacked to
be perfect.
