ANGELA CARLI

Born in Siena in 1978, after attending the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, she returned to her hometown, where she opened her first workshop in 2002 and her personal gallery in 2018. Her works are strongly influenced by pop art and reflection on the role of icons in our daily lives. The works of the latest years have been painted on the original pages of the italian magazine "Epoca" issues dating back to the 50s and they consist in compositions where the main subject arises from the different advertising spots that still remain visible inside the translucent character.  Angela Carli uses original newspaper pages from the 1950s to create her works, compositions with the characteristic effect of torn posters where the writing overlaps layer upon layer with the image, aiming to recreate the amplifying and repetitive world of billboards. Angela Carli's Geishas are the personification of what can be fed to the masses, stripped of its own uniqueness and redefined with new concepts and values. The geisha herself, as a person of art, dedicates her life to the interpretation of the mask she wears, clothed in a role, and is by its very nature an icon.