Samanta Malavasi is a contemporary painter and illustrator based out in Milan, Italy. She earned her degree Academy Fine Art in Bologna, Italy. She divides her time working out of her studio in Milan and participating in exhibitions in Europe...
Read More Samanta Malavasi is a contemporary painter and illustrator based out in Milan, Italy. She earned her degree Academy Fine Art in Bologna, Italy. She divides her time working out of her studio in Milan and participating in exhibitions in Europe and the United States, teaching art in schools, and painting fashion clothes.
Samanta Malavasi is a contemporary painter and illustrator based out in Milan, Italy. She earned her degree Academy Fine Art in Bologna, Italy. She divides her time working out of her studio in Milan and participating in exhibitions in Europe and the United States, teaching art in schools, and painting fashion clothes.
Statement
There is a sense of emotion in Samanta Malavasi, who explores, thank to her job, people’s psychology through the faces in the world.
It is not a case that she has chosen to use Plexiglass for her works, a transparent, impalpable, crystalline material that allows her to go over the single face to embrace through its transparency all the characters that she has painted.
Inspired by people, colours, cities and fashion, Malavasi has a natural connection with the present society and its contemporary inhabitants.
Her modern hand is an assembly of nature and artifice, texture and colour, graphic art and painting. It connotes the characters and the personalities of its inhabitants.
Known for her bright colours in geometrical shapes, Samanta Malavasi distills the emotion of painting of the graphic art by creating abstract, geometrical compositions, with a brave and very personal vision in the portraits, a collage of graphic arts and the physical mark of acrylic.
The unconventional portraits of Samanta, a mix of digital shapes pervaded by the bursting strength of acrylic, are realized in transparent plexiglass, allowing to appreciate the painting from every spatial perspective, just as the real personality of the subjects; looking over the threshold that separate the appearances from the reality, brings out their real identity.
Malavasi chose a modern, transparent, versatile support as plexiglass, that allows a double reading of the works: on one side the appearance of the digital reproduction and on the other side the manual intervention, to define the right trait to the meaning of the images.
