“I have been always fascinated by nature, the behavior of animals, the way that flowers and plants grow and how we are a big part of it, the subtle injection of ambiguity that blurs the gap between the ordinary and the fantastic.”
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About Karenina’s Work
Ivy leaves climbing up female busts, organic proliferations dressing fragile bodies whose zoomorphic heads endow them with disturbing beauty.
Karenina Fabrizzi's figures seem to emerge from the pictorial background as silhouettes projected by confused memories, presences revealing themselves as absences.
Sometimes they unfold into twin souls; perhaps they find in that alterity the longing for some kind of lost unity.
These metamorphic processes of fusion with the natural universe are not innocuous; an uncertain melancholy clouds them. Allegories of human vulnerability, of the feeling of our fleeting transit through the world.
Sometimes they evoke characters from the past (mythical or historical), such as Iseult or Dante's Beatrice. But those references are only biased allusions to narratives of tragic love, about the proximity of Eros and Thanatos.
Perhaps for this reason, the gallery of women mimicking the plant kingdom reminds us of Dafne, since their hybridity with the world leads them to shed a part of their identity, their past, and in that choice for transformation we can guess a desire to flee.
But mimicry is necessary for adaptation to an environment that can be hostile. Without change there is no regeneration.
When glassy-eyed female, white and pink flowers, disturbing birds usurp the identity of the portrayed females, the animal allegory works as an unveiling of what usually remains locked inside each person. As in Greek tragedy, the mask reveals more than it hides.
“In my work I want to bring nature closer to the observer, to connect people with their roots and memories. Organic elements are essential as they show us, like in a fairy tale, the link between the subconscious mind and the actual world.”
Karenina Fabrizzi Live
“Each painting that I create is a unique dance with a variety of materials, unique to each work. I often refer back to traditional painting methods when priming the surface and preparing the paints. One of my preferred mediums is egg tempera, which i prepare myself from scratch in the same way that the renaissance masters would have done. I always use oils and inks in my work. The quality of these mediums enables me to build up subtle and rich layers, from which my poetic images appear. Each work is always a battle between exposing and suppressing different areas until the perfect balance of color and form is achieved.”
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Selected Recent Exhibitions
Solo Shows
The Desert
Galeria Andrzeja Strumiłły
Suwałki, Poland
Dorzecza
OFF Frame gallery
Krakow, Poland
New realities
Basel Art Center
Basel, Switzerland
Group Shows & Fairs
The salt of Zabłocie
CSW Wiewiórka
Krakow, Poland
Gilcrest Project
Saatchi Art
Beverly Hills, USA
Art Basel Selection
Art Basel
Basel, Switzerland
Studio Visit
About Karenina Fabrizzi
Karenina Fabrizzi is an Italian artist based in Barcelona, Spain.
Her work has been exhibited all over the world and is held in many private collections internationally like PULSE Miami, Art on paper New York, Hermitage Hotel, Cheval Gloucester Park, DAWN-Royal Grand Suites, Le Meridien, Leevan Art Oriental, Maison et Objet in Paris, to mention few.
Her work it is fascinated by nature, the behavior of animals, the way that flowers and plants grow and how we are all a big part of it, the subtle injection of ambiguity that blurs the gap between the ordinary and the fantastic.
She wants to bring nature closer to the observer, to connect people with their roots and memories. Organic elements are essential as they show, like in a fairy tale, the link between the subconscious mind and the actual world.
This, besides having an apparent dark side, also embodies a sense of fragility and Vulnerability, which seems to be a consistent characteristic of her work.
Delicate graphite lines, a subtle oil color palette, ink, and rice paper all amalgamate to create layer after layer a particularly dreamy look that distinguishes her work.