Silvia Manazza

Born in Rome in 1957, after completing the course of Graphic and Painting at the Civic School of Visual Arts of Pavia, she perfected herself at the Image Center in Milan, with the artist Mario Raciti and later, after recognising her interests in sculpture, she attended the Laboratory of Giuseppe Giannini in Pietrasanta where she learned the techniques of the mold, necessary for merging wax.
The real "shock" occured when she accidentaly found herself in an old disused school, with hundreds of abandoned mattresses, ready to be thrown away. Suddenly, she is taken by the desire to give them a different destiny ...
From that moment she begins to stitch their "ripped" canvases and stuff them with horsehair and, ironically, to recreate everyday objects, telling new stories and inviting everyone to let themselves go...