CHIARA CAPELLINI
b. 1981, ItalyChiara Capellini is an Italian artist living and working in Milan. Her work is focused on void, meditation, and the investigation of vision as a physical and inner phenomenon. The subject represented is the transition between the mental image and its dissolution towards something else. Not a representation or resemblance of something. But a moment of mental transition of an idea. Between seeing something and seeing nothing.
“I believe that questions about nothing are also questions about everything. I aim for the minimum because it wouldn’t make sense to create anything less.”
Capellini’s paintings are usually realised through a process of material subtraction, striving to create a depth of vision with minimal elements. She believes that removing in painting allows for better seeing, for conceptualising, in order to reach the core of the concept.
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