Paola Angelini

Paola Angelini (b. 1983, San Benedetto del Tronto, IT) works within a lexicon of motifs inspired by 20th century statuary, Medieval tapestries, Italian art history, her own unconscious, and nature. She is interested in the symbolic value of her recurring motifs such as rearing horses, carved statues, dancers, and demons. She uses traditional materials such as rabbit skin glue and plaster to create an entirely unique surface texture that the artist calls “pictorial flesh”—alive with crevices, cracks, smoothness, and roughness. The figures within her paintings exist somewhere between the lively human world and the eternally static world of stone. Her focused color palettes in contrast with her historical themes create a tension between visual history, archive, and contemporaneity. In the universe of her paintings, time is collapsed as history seeps into our present moment. Angelini lives and works in San Benedetto del Tronto.

CV | Exhibitions

Paola Angelini, The light of the moon , 2021-22, Mixed media on canvas, 78 3/4 x 63 inches, 200 x 160 cm — Paola Angelini, *The light of the moon*, 2021-22, Mixed media on canvas, 78 3/4 x 63 inches, 200 x 160 cm

Black Morning , Installation View at Lyles & King, New York, NY, February 12 - March 12, 2022 — *Black Morning*, Installation View at Lyles & King, New York, NY, February 12 - March 12, 2022

Paola Angelini, Danse macabre standing on the head , 2021, Mixed media on canvas, 78 x 104 3/8 inches, 198 x 265 cm — Paola Angelini, *Danse macabre standing on the head*, 2021, Mixed media on canvas, 78 x 104 3/8 inches, 198 x 265 cm

Paola Angelini, The dreamer , 2021, Oil on linen, 50 x 48 3/8 inches, 127 x 123 cm — Paola Angelini, *The dreamer*, 2021, Oil on linen, 50 x 48 3/8 inches, 127 x 123 cm

Paola Angelini, Il Tuffatore , Installation View, Fondazione Coppola, Vicenza, 2022 — Paola Angelini, *Il Tuffatore*, Installation View, Fondazione Coppola, Vicenza, 2022

Paola Angelini, The room of the giants , 2020, Mixed media on canvas, 78 3/4 x 69 inches, 200 x 175 cm, Photocredits- Michele Alberto Sereni — Paola Angelini, *The room of the giants*, 2020, Mixed media on canvas, 78 3/4 x 69 inches, 200 x 175 cm, Photocredits- Michele Alberto Sereni

Paola Angelini, The Story told by my father , 2016, Oil on canvas, 78 3/4 x 70 4/5 inches, 200 x 180 cm — Paola Angelini, *The Story told by my father*, 2016, Oil on canvas, 78 3/4 x 70 4/5 inches, 200 x 180 cm

Biography of a Painted Table , Installation view, Galleri Brandstrup, Oslo, Norway, 2021 — *Biography of a Painted Table*, Installation view, Galleri Brandstrup, Oslo, Norway, 2021

Paola Angelini, L'Abisso , 2021, Mixed media on canvas, 78 x 70 inches, 198 x 178 cm — Paola Angelini, *L'Abisso*, 2021, Mixed media on canvas, 78 x 70 inches, 198 x 178 cm

Paola Angelini, Biography of a painting table #2 , 2021, Mixed media on canvas, 76 3/4 x 61 inches, 195 x 155 cm — Paola Angelini, *Biography of a painting table #2*, 2021, Mixed media on canvas, 76 3/4 x 61 inches, 195 x 155 cm

Paola Angelini, Danse Macabre standing on the head , 2020, Mixed media on canvas, 78 3/4 x 63 inches, 200 x 160 cm — Paola Angelini, *Danse Macabre standing on the head*, 2020, Mixed media on canvas, 78 3/4 x 63 inches, 200 x 160 cm

Paola Angelini, A pensar come tutto al mondo passa , 2019, Oil on linen, 46 1/2 x 42 1/2 inches, 118 x 108 cm — Paola Angelini, *A pensar come tutto al mondo passa*, 2019, Oil on linen, 46 1/2 x 42 1/2 inches, 118 x 108 cm

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