renata
pelegrini

Renata Pelegrini has a degree in Fine Arts, and BAs in Language Teaching and in Education. She is also a translator/ interpreter and has a Neurolinguistics Diploma. Having majored in painting, Renata has worked her expression around figuration and abstraction, using this layer-in-between to communicate her belief in a more porous experience in art. 

Calligraphy was one of Pelegrini’s triggers to her artistic work, back then in New York, in the 90's. Since then, the massive training in this field intensified her awareness of the movements of the hand and body_ such as, pressure, direction and angulation_  and guided her work along other artists in Italy and Switzerland in the 2010’s while studying expressive gestures.

More recently Renata’s research has focused on women handcraft traditions_ where the artist has harvested some materials _ and biology_ area from which the artists learns about new intelligences that cohabit our globe. In 2020 her interests in issues related to the environment connected Pelegrini to the Ocean University, a pedagogical platform led by TBA21-academy, where artists, scientists and environmental advocates exchange knowledge and actions.

How can art contribute to discuss new ways of living in this planet? To call attention to possibilities of collaboration and engagement between humans and non-humans, scientific and ecological knowledge, Renata proposes an answer with "a story of the possible" by imagening some new creatures she names EPIPHYTES. Inspired by a group of plants that live together for support, Pelegrini makes this collective of beings to rethink the conciliation of what is different: hard and soft textures, strong and fragile materials, presence and absence notions of space.

In another series, ATTACCATI, Renata is vocal about her caring attitude and ecological concerns, making the process and the context of the making of the work, become visible. In this series, the use of pharmaceutical adhesive bandages to connect pieces of paper create a larger support for the painting. In the removal of the tape, as the work is finished, one can witness the empty space, like a scar, in which the fictional landscape has its nature missing. 

EPIPHYTES and ATTACCATI both express Renata Pelegrini’s desire for amalgamation and belief in interdependency, concerns that have always been present in her art expression. These two series present the artist’s understanding that a new grammar to inhabit our planet is urgent and necessary.