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Gloria Forti
I look on painting as a language, both privileged and precious, which allows me to reach out to others, create an instant connection able to brighten moods and prompt intuition, a compelling impulse to be open and honest, to cast off any sense of shame. Touch the soul with the touch of my brushstrokes : this is what I would love to achieve. When this happens, through the game of “real and unreal” and “ full and empty” while my fingers blend the paste colours I feel truly happy.
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Scent of the Sea
Gloria Forti
Painting seen as a game, fun, a desire to astonish and break the mould. This is how I picture the glimpses of my ever-changing seas: painting and collage on canvas in material artwork using creative recycling. I bring to life the memory of seascapes in shades of blue and azure under crystal clear skies which refresh the eye. Glimpses of beaches, bubbles of foam from breaking waves, salt in the air. At times the scenes come together, only to break apart and reassemble in a new order, in a game played between the parts, between sand, water and sky.
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The secret game of flowers
Gloria Forti
Iris, Lilies, Lotus flowers chase and intersect with themselves using an unusual technique. The flowers are painted, fragmented and reassembled in geometric compositions, like pages of secret stories, hidden games, magical worlds forbidden to the human eye. Mixed technique, collage and stitching on canvas.
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Memories on Canvas
Gloria Forti
Life gifts us precious moments which we would love to seize hold of and never let go. Instead they elude us. However, using the material which gave them substance, I am able to transform those moments into works of art. Starting from a garment, or a fragment of clothing entrusted to me by the storyteller, I perform an act of recovery, I create a brand new approach in a mix of pictorial tradition and pop transgression : the technique is different types of painting on canvas with collage and use of creative recycling of silk, cotton, mixed fabrics and embroidery.
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"The jeans worn when first we met"
mixed technique on canvas 70 x 90 cms
Sara and Giorgio chose to entrust me with the pair of jeans that Sara was wearing on the day of their first encounter at the seaside.
I used a real fragment of a pocket, piecing everything together around the garment with paint, immagining that from the other pocket, as if from a tiny casket full of promises of love, small shells found moments before on the sand peeped out.
"This painting is not solely a beautiful object; for us it symbolises a story and a mutual vow that we delight in renewing day by day"
Sara & Giorgio
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"Grandfather painter’s waistcoat"
mixed technique on canvas 60 x 80 cms
Alice entrusted to me a fragment of fabric from the waistcoat of her beloved grandfather, a painter as she herself is, so that I could make a “new” yet at the same time “old” artwork to keep by her side in her art studio.
The waistcoat evokes memories of the affectionate fantasy, the vigourous brushstrokes of the dearly loved artist and grandfather. She recognises and remembers the thousand nuances on his palette, all of his teachings and the marvellous moments spent with him as he mixed his colours.
"Each time I look at that waistcoat I relive the familiarity of my grandfather’s gestures and I feel his presence beside me as I paint in my studio. It is lovely to see it move on the canvas, it almost appears to dance!"
Alice P.
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"My first time shirt"
mixed technique on canvas 70 x 90 cms
Paola has chosen a life dedicated to music: both singer and composer, she writes all of her own songs.
She brought me the shirt she wore on the evening of her first concert and asked me to transform it into a work of art : her aim, never to forget her beginnings, the effort and the commitment needed to transform her passion into work, the many trips across Europe searching for an opportunity.
"It has now become my lucky charm: it helps me to keep going when times are tough and inspires me as I write words and music. Preserving that moment in time for ever, the start of everything, means never forgetting how much work and how much passion I put into these years"
Paola R.
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"Glass jellyfish"
collection by Daniela Forti
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Daniela Forti lives and works in Lucca, in Tuscany, where she creates glass sculptures, contemporary one-of-a-kind artworks. Using a masterly technique, a blend of tradition and innovation, she fashions extravagant and original worlds, transforming glass into tranparencies of vivid colours and innovative shapes, at times related to the natural world as with the “Meduse” or “Jellyfish” series. All her works of art are one-offs.
Gloria Forti
Tuscany, Italy
embroidered paintings and more
Gloria Forti has exhibited her work in numerous private galleries and public premises since the 1970s, attracting considerable interest. Her artworks are crafted adopting particular and unusual techniques (painting and collage, fragments and ready-made, hyper-realism and abstraction) which tumble over each other in an ironic and playful narrative that aims both to surprise and to invite reflection. Her artistry today is the result of her experience developed over time with her notable work on the study of traditional techniques and the reproduction of Fleming classics which she herself has undertaken for many years.
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