Annalisa Pirovano, THOSE DOWNSTAIRS

Room 6

«What led me towards painting was the immense nostalgia that is always renewed every morning, for the light of dreams.»
Annalisa Pirovano

«Although she is an artist of proven technical skills, her works are never subject to a mere stylistic inequality, but always emphasise the primacy of the narrative, which sees the domestic environment become the silent stage for psychodramas in progress or in the making. The scene almost always consists of living rooms or dining rooms immortalised after sunset in a claustrophobic microcosm crowded with an obsessive multitude of objects. The epicentre of the sequence – to use a cinematic expression – is always the human figure, sometimes shot from behind and sometimes from the front, immersed in a sort of passive waiting. Like other artists of her generation, Annalisa Pirovano’s work has been oriented from the outset in the vein of the so-called reality painters. In Pirovano’s work, this approach is charged with peculiar aesthetic and symbolic values that draw on different spheres: that of media culture and news reports, made explicit also through the skilful use of monochromes, the slightly twilight approach of film noir (in the style of Tarantino) and that of minimalist American literature in the style of Truman Capote.»
Mimmo di Marzio

THE ARTIST

Annalisa Pirovano was born in Erba in 1978. She attended the set design course at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, where she lives and works. From her first experiences as a set designer, she discovered painting. In 2007 she participated in the Arte Award and was selected as one of the twenty finalists. In 2008, she began a collaboration with the Obraz gallery in Milan, participating in the group exhibition Lo stato dell’arte. In February 2009 she opened her first solo exhibition I vicini non fanno rumore curated by Mimmo Di Marzio. In April, she took part in the group show Undercover, also curated by Mimmo Di Marzio, at the Wannabee gallery in Milan. In May, she was selected as one of the twenty finalists in the Como Contemporany Art Contest and participated in the exhibition at the Pinacoteca Comunale in Como.