Silvia Argiolas was born in Cagliari in 1977. She has studied at Art School State Cagliari. While still a student, she started exhibiting in 2006 mostly in her home town and that gave her a chance to grow faster as an artist.
The imaginary worlds made out of childhood memories, emotions and reflections represent the basis of Silvia Argiolas’s art practice. By handling the myriad of associations and inner emotional struggling, the artist produces staggering, yet obscure compositions. Figuration in the means of a narrative, in this case, seems to present a central role, yet it expresses fully artists current world view. As a matter of fact, Argiolas is in constant re-research of the forms, gestures and situations that surround her which she tries to re-modify, contextualize differently and provide new interpretation
Different Medias as an Ongoing Quest:
The meticulously thought body of Argiolas work leads us to the edges of imagination. Her eerie compositions can be referred to as if they are inclined in the modernist tradition, especially Neo-Expressionism and Surrealism. They are the mix of daily observations, free associations and the artist’s obsession with cinema. From the authors, such are Roberto Rossellini and Larry Clark she absorbs inspiration and they help her to make comparisons, empathize or simply unlock other worlds. On the other hand, from the strictly visual perspective perhaps the author who’s filming mostly affected Argiolas work is Alexandro Jodorowsky and his psychedelic aesthetics.
Erotic, yet humorous fragments of human imagination occupy the artist
The Magic Behind The Works:
The very process of making the work in the case of Silvia Argiolas is not mediated by sketches or preparatory drawings. Namely, the artist starts by following her intuition, by intervening directly on paper or canvas. The very act of patient observation of human behavior represents a focal point from which Argiolas starts constructing the composition. The hybrid characters are over exaggerated sexually indefinite figures who embody impulses and emotional instances, while the landscapes they inhabit are unknown spaces full of mystery. Therefore, the works are the result of an inner projection, a sort of metaphorical translation of the artist’s moods.
The importance of minutely thought painterly process