BARBARA CAMMARATA (Caltanissetta 1977) lives and works in CataniaBarbara Cammarata's research investigates the complex relationship between human beings and the biosphere, including flora, fauna, but also subtle energies, thresholds and eliminal zones between materials, according to processes of stratification and...
Read MoreBARBARA CAMMARATA (Caltanissetta 1977) lives and works in Catania
Barbara Cammarata's research investigates the complex relationship between human beings and the biosphere, including flora, fauna, but also subtle energies, thresholds and eliminal zones between materials, according to processes of stratification and density. Not the sum of a number of elements (be they chromatic or figurative), but their metamorphosis, the alchemical intersection capable of revealing a quintessence superior to all the parts and elements of reality.
She graduated in Social Sciences in 2003 at the University of Palermo, she studied at Brighton City College and at the University of Brighton, where she graduated with honors in 2009 in Fine Art.
She has collaborated with architects (Analogique) and other visual artists. Among her most recent experiences are the Collica & Partners Gallery,Fondazione Broodbeck, Fondazione Donà Dalle Rose, Fondazione Oelle, Artissima 2023-22, Museo Riso, Palazzo Ciampoli, Dimora OZ, e Manifesta 12 e 13.
The artist's way of working is based on the preliminary investigation of a given context, an experience that allows her to analyze the components and dynamics present and then to interpret them with a personal narrative.
A transdisciplinary method whose main medium is painting. She translates and returns a personal and imaginative account of the everyday seen from a perspective in which man and nature constitute systems that cannot be explained simply as the sum of the individual components, but as superior organisms resulting from a metamorphosis, imaginary in the facts, but real in the potential consequences.
As mentioned, she is mainly a painter who, however, also expresses herself with technologically advanced textile works and installations (collaboration with the Analogique architecture studio).
The painting, while appearing rich in chromatic variations, is the result of more or less material drafts of gray and therefore of the three primary colors which by overlapping and juxtaposing make the painted surface lively and spatially organized.
The complex figurative iconography in the unfolding of the process becomes increasingly rich in tones and signs that paradoxically make the vision abstract, which is recomposed in figuration thanks to slow and careful observation.
