Giorgia Palombi is an artist internationally renowned for her Metamosaics, abstract and experimental compositions that transcend
the limits of the mosaic to the point of almost dematerialising its tiles and for her transpersonal project called Wonder Lanterns, through
which she is giving birth to a Human Metamosaic, an international community of collectors and dreamers who wish to protect and feed
the flame of wonder.
Graduated from the Art School, she began her career in the art world as a restorer, participating to prestigious restoration projects like the Codornata Capitolina, Palazzo Braschi and the Church of the Gesú. Once she mastered and masterfully applied all the restoration
techniques, Palombi begins to wonder fi retouching already existing works of art is his real vocation. After a brief pause for reflection, she decides to devote herself to the study and creation of mosaics, a medium in which she specialises learning all its possible applications and with which she has been working successfully both in Italy and abroad for public and private clients since 2001 t o 2018.
In the meantime she attends the Degree Course in Interior Design and Architecture a t the La Sapienza University of Rome.
Starting from 2018 she has dedicated herself to experimenting and breaking the traditional rules of the mosaic to develop her authorial voice which culminates with the Metamosaics (Sensory Mosaics and Shibori Mosaics) and the Wonder Lanterns (Human Metamosaic), projects that arouse international appreciation and interest.
STATEMENT
I love experimenting with mosaic by challenging the characteristics inherent in this medium (staticity, coldness, bidimensionality, hardness and heaviness) through the introduction of mobile components, innovative materials (felt, soft fabrics) and three-dimensional elements.
This is why Iam known as the artist of Metamosaics- a new form of art which I invented (halfway between mosaic, sculpture, painting and installation) - characterised precisely by mosaics that transcend their limits to the point of almost dematerialisating, as in the case of the "Shibori" Metamosaics.
A bit like Piero Gilardi's Nature Carpets, my Metamosaics amaze and intrigue the viewer by offering them a new mosaic experience - an
interactive, tactile experience that generates an emotional contrast between the known and the new. In my "Sensorial" Metamosaics, for example, static gives way to movement - cold gives way to heat.
Basically, I want to take people by the hand and let them enter the three-dimensional world of matter that emerges from carefully
contemplating apparently flat surfaces, so that they can discover unexpected textures and details - details that I love to amplify by
subverting the proportions of the real world, so as to incite the viewer to a playful and intriguing, though a never trivial, "treasure hunt".
My goal is to rekindle the spark of wonder, that state of excitement and total presence that we all enjoyed in our childhoods while playing: a
state of free creativity, in which time and space are "no limits" and above all in which everything is fluid and possible, as in the dreamlike
dimension of Dali and the lucid dream.
Istrongly believe that "When we experience wonder, we become more selfless and less self-centered.
We feel a greater connection through humanity" as Kaywin Feldman, director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington says.
In regards with the theme of connection, Ideveloped the international transpersonal projects Wonder Lanterns (or Human Mosaic): it is a network of "stargates" - monumental portals installed in various cities of the world - and a series of customized three-dimensional sculptural Metamosaics made only on commission, aimed at all those people who, even in adulthood, wish to protect and ignite the flame of wonder.
