"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]
