Arte e Natura

Location GILDONA (Avenza)

Painting, Sculpture

Patrizia Pianini is a versatile and tireless experimental artist whose work takes the form of a visual and narrative existential diary. Her work does not arise from adherence to styles or movements, but from a deep impulse: to understand herself through the creative gesture, to make visible what moves within, to give shape to inner passages, even the quietest ones. Her production develops over time as a path of metamorphosis, in which the material (paper, fabric, plant-based color, marble, word) is chosen not to imitate reality, but to reveal what pulses beneath the surface.

From the figurative beginnings — landscapes and portraits made with artisanal care — Patrizia progressively moves toward an emotional, abstract, increasingly inward painting. With the Fragments, her painting becomes an emotional language and existential inquiry. The work no longer describes, but questions, evokes, seeks. Faces, bodies, and spaces dissolve into traces and fragments, reflecting a vision of the self in transformation.

Each phase of her production corresponds to a vivid and precise need: for example, the water lilies phase was born as a response to the Covid lockdown, an intimate challenge with Monet but also a contemplative pause in pain. The works made with plant-based colors mark a new turning point: the need for contact with nature becomes a formal requirement. Materials are no longer just tools but interlocutors: leaves, iron, tannin, fabric — all take part in the story.

With eco-printing, Patrizia returns to the material as a collaborator and a voice. She does not control: she observes, welcomes, reacts. The gesture becomes a dialogue with what nature offers. Botanical prints are not decorative: they are imprints of time, climate, mood, attention. Each leaf leaves its story, and the artist becomes a witness and interpreter, never a master. Within this horizon also lies the choice not always to mordant or to modify with a brush, experimenting with non-standardized processes, unique as the seasons.

Words are never accessory. Patrizia writes to complete, accompany, explain to herself. Whether it is reviews of her works, free-verse poems, or illustrated stories for children, the verbal language follows the same tension as her visual art: to dig deep, to make feelings clear, but never to simplify. The stories are often tools to speak gently and profoundly to herself and others: curious girls, empathetic robots, invisible animals, talking trees are mirrors and thresholds.

Patrizia rejects the idea of a fixed identity, even in how she defines herself as an artist. She compares herself to a rose that constantly changes shape and color, and this metaphor resonates throughout her work. Transformation is not loss, but truth. Every choice is consistent with the idea that creativity is a form of knowledge of oneself and the world, and that only those who continuously change can remain faithful to their authenticity.

In every project — from coloring books to public marble sculptures, from bonsai manuals to poetic booklets about plants — a clear desire emerges: to offer something useful, nourishing, stimulating to others. Her books speak of dreams, empathy, kindness, transformation. Art is never self-referential but always an invitation: to reflect, to imagine, to change.

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