Biography
Restless and curious artist, who likes to explore different techniques and expressive means also in digital, such as the graphic sign and inks, pastel mixtures, pictorial expression with different mediums, pictorial graphic interventions on her own photographs printed on canvas and mixed media works, almost installations to hang and discover from different points of view.
When she expresses herself with multi-material works, uses all kinds of materials, carefully chosen and assembled on the canvas or other support and mediated by acrylic colors, in which she combines pictorial signs with the evocative contribution of objects, emotional finding and object trouvé, as well as small artifacts and natural materials.
Even the support is often not a pictorial canvas, but a towel or an another type of remnant, mounted on a frame and prepared to accommodate the color. The frame, when not missing, becomes an integral part of the work, and atypically is the starting point rather than the final reframing: after being found by a junk dealer or in a closet it is consolidated, cleaned and is the base from which to start to build the frame and design the entire work ... which often, also composed of the artist's favorite textile materials, escapes from the narrow and limited space of work, to enter the real world and get closer to the viewer, who in turn is invited to enter the work, sometimes from mirror games or from texts to read and understand ... So the narration takes place on several levels, both visually spatial and tactile, and as the viewer enters the work emphatically, he/she adds to the suggestions and references of the artist, offered in the configuration and in the assemblage, her own personal contents evoked and suggested by the memory ...
In the interventions on photographs she uses exclusively prints on paper or canvas of her own shots first elaborated in digital, playing between photographic hyper-realism and the graphic sign of ink or pastel markers, or often pictorial material, the use of stamps and imprints using acrylic colors often with small inclusions.
In this case the canvas, not framed, is made to be unrolled and hung by wooden rods, like a light sail.
Patrizia Garberi, born in Milan in 1959 and currently living in Tuscany in Rosignano Marittimo, is a psychologist, visual artist, art therapist and mindfulness / MBSR instructor.
She completed all artistic studies in Milan with a diploma in Scenography from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in 1982 with a thesis on the relationship between science and art. After a career as a scientific illustrator, portraitist and art teacher, she began her exhibition and artistic research career, while at the same time devoting herself to the study of buddhist and western psychology, graduating also in Neuroscience and earning a PhD in cognitive psychology.
