"THE WONDER OF FORMS. While Daniela Busarello’s work refuses all notions of the
spectacular, preferring to express itself discreetly, the forms that
emerge from it lack neither vigour nor power, especially when
the artist expresses herself through glass. Since 2010 she has
been working with master glassmakers in Murano; she accepts
the surprises, irregularities and imperfections inherent to glass
blowing. Whether in wood, glass or textile, the artist renews
these traditional materials and techniques to create a new
simplified sculpture, moving between figuration and abstraction,
of soft and solid materials. As in many of the great artists’
works, everything is there from the beginning: the same themes
return again and again, but approached differently; in glass, the
female body is again explored and shown, but with a new will
to renew the sculptural treatment of gender, particularly of the
feminine. Although not strictly figurative, Daniela Busarello’s
glass sculptures are resolutely and explicitly organic. She creates
oversized forms, feminine and sensual, while still raw, strong and disturbing. Thanks to these sculpture-vase-bodies, she
verticalises and monumentalises the feminine, creating powerful
beings, installing the female at the centre of our present. “This
metonymic body accepts and, most importantly, recognises the
beauty of accidents, of imperfections and scars that can happen
at the moment of birth, from the cutting of the umbilical cord,”
says the artist. The colour used – the blue of the sea that bathes
La Serenissima, the pink of the crushed shells, and the title,
Anatomia dell’ Oceano, pay particular tribute to the waters and
lagoon of Venice, an endangered ecosystem." [Lucia Pesapane, 2020]
