Biography
Silvia Abbiezzi was born in 1966 in Milan, where she currently lives and works.
After her degree from the Accademia di Brera, she taught Human Figure Drawing in an art secondary school and she exhibited both in Italy and abroad. She was awarded in domestic and international contests.
Her work reveals a marked tendency towards experimentation, though this is never an end in itself, and it finds expression through the use of various techniques and materials: X-ray films, fragments of fabric and plastic, foam rubber, suture thread, scrap objects, and so on. In her paintings female bodies stand out, destructured and yet entire and recognizable in their iconicity, drawing inspiration from different cultures.
The study of the ‘breaking up’ of the female figure, typical of commercial, but also non-commercial communication, is the object of this artist’s look, whose analytic skill is quite sharp. In a time when artificial prevails over natural, the representation of what is womanly rejects the rhetoric of the body as merchandise: it turns into mere introspective analysis, an eye digging in the depths.
A recurring theme is the ‘sewn mouth’, the symbol of a communication that lost its function, reduced to idle talk: the mirror of a society where the neo-language levels out fundamental and complementary, value and ephemeral. (…)
Riccardo Infante (Historian and Philosopher) 2008
