Giuditta Branconi
Born in 1998 in Sant’Omero (Italy), Giuditta Branconi lives between Milan and Teramo. Her artworks are loud and bombastic, realised in a blaring painting that smiles open-mouthed and whispers. The one staged by the artist is a theatrical mise-en-scène where rare species and rich fauna often surround the characters who smile at us with timeless eyes. The lively composition plays between stolen glimpses and vast horizons where the gaze gets lost, but only up to a certain point before being driven back.
Branconi piles figures and symbols, layers of colours and references in chaotic and flamboyant, vivid and opaque, murky and delicate paintings. Mischievous faces and animals peep through the undergrowth and slowly resurface, settling on each other and in the viewer’s eye.
These idyllic yet somehow familiar characters emerge from a painted frame, which hides and protects them. They wander in a land of chiaroscuro and brightly coloured contradictions, where nothing stands still, and everything appears eternal. Moreover, they live in close relationships, chitchat without words and open secret ways to escapism and stream of consciousness.
The atmosphere, at times erotic and hedonistic, endogenous and transfigured, permeates through the canvas. In this sense, Branconi’s is once again a landscape painting, opening half-remembered and imagined spaces.
At the same time, she uses the canvas on both front and back. In this way, she sets a degree zero where the first stage of the pictorial act unravels, only to permeate from the other side, exploiting the material’s porosity to give the image new horizons.