all pictures from her gallery's website http://www.scaramoucheart.com/HOME.html
Cristiana Palandri
“Cristiana Palandri was born in 1977 in Florence, where she lives and works. She pursued her study of art at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna.”
Cristiana Palandri is a working Italian artist that lives in Florence. She creates art based on her hair. She started drawing since she was very little but didn't take a lot of interest in it until 2005. She would create large drawings of thin lines that looked like strands of hair. They would come together and then tangle and sometimes spell words. She then started to add real strands of her own hair and pasting them on her drawings. The process for Palandri from drawing to adding a new element allowed her to grow even more and she started creating sculptures. She makes sculptures using the same materials. She still used her hair, or collected hair from barber shops and friends, and wax, glass and bone. Many of the materials she uses have certain weaknesses to them yet can be controlled to create strength. One strand of hair removed from the head is weak and likely to break, but when braided and controlled it becomes strong. Many of her sculptures resonate that idea. There is strength created in the control used to make the piece. Yet the elements are still seen as delicate and quiet pieces. This push and pull of weak to strong is what makes Palandri's work so intriguing.
Palandri relates to my work in using similar themes throughout her work. She weaves hair into a lot of the work she creates. I weave my family into different works that I create. What is also very similar, is the way that we both move from two dimensions to three dimensions. She started by drawing and drawing her hair. Then she moved to encaustic works and finally she created many sculptural works. It is a natural progression for her. For me, I am a photographer that every day takes three dimensional objects and forces them to be two dimensions. However, in this process, I found myself making small sculptures. I found myself creating works in three dimensions to photograph them. And my sculptures only exists as photographs really. They are disassembled after I am done. So there is a fragility in my work that is also in Palandri's. A peacefulness.
“Ever since she produced her first works in 2005, drawing was the medium with which she began to experiment in the genesis of form through a kind of "controlled automatism", resorting to the specific plastic features of such organic materials as wax, bone and hair.”
“ Accordance does exist at times, tied to the use of or interest in the same materials, hair for example, but my fixation for this material, notwithstanding that it is more resistant than death and capable of going beyond ourselves”
Palandri in and interview
Links:
Gallery: http://www.scaramoucheart.com/HOME.html
interview: http://www.exibart.com/notizia.asp/IDCategoria/206/IDNotizia/20694
website: http://www.scaramoucheart.com/PALANDRI.html
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