Paola Brusa

Paola Brusa graduated in Architecture with a qualification in design, worked then as a designer and interior designer. Her engagement with painting has been periodically renewed in recent years, showing a “borderline” meeting, an escape from conventions into unknown territories that embrace a dreamlike dimension. Her investigation emphasizes the body and the inadequacy of “being”: the body becomes a theatre of emotions, where the δαίμων (daimon) is shaken, and polarity between Eros and Thanatos underlines intertwined emotions and their opposition. They are deforming faces. Liquefied, they melt, break up, multiply, are overwhelmed by the “odyssey of being”, showing a variety of emotional diagrams. Drawing becomes a tool to cross streams of consciousness, the direct link between conscious and unconscious, a bridge between two worlds conveying fragments of the “self” on canvas. Uncomfortable and irreverent shapes stand out, screeching, writhing and meandering in search of authenticity, in an effort to listen to their own horror vacui and manage their own internal space. The only constant element is transformation itself, “the change”. When the path seems tracked, when the scream and the emotion seem trapped by the matter that has shap...

2019 april 29 - ARDEAT CORPUS - Abbiategrasso
2017 4 maggio-15 ottobre - “Selfie-sh?” - Milano - NHOW, via Tortona 5
2015 13-19 gennaio - “Milan Contemporary” - Milano - Basilica di S. Ambrogio, Oratorio della Passione
2014 lugio-agosto - “Ferrara Art Festival” - Ferrara - Salone Girolamo Savonarola e Sale Cosmè Tura e Olimpia Morata
2014 luglio - “Genova Art Expo 2014” - Genova - Palazzo Stella
2012 novembre - “Segni di donna, le signore dell'arte” - Pavia – GRAAL Spazio Arte
2011 settembre - finalista “Wannabee Prize International Art Contest 2011”
2010 ottobre - “Variazioni in Fieri” - Milano - DYANMO
2010 settembre - “Immagini e figure, lo sguardo del corpo” - Pavia – GRAAL Spazio Arte
2010 maggio - “Il Piacere degli occhi” Percorso arti figurative con patrocinio Comune di Trezzo sull’Adda presso Atelier G. Tinelli
2010 gennaio - 1° premio Concorso Epifania - Milano - Galleria Eustachi
2009 ottobre - “Doppia personale” - Milano - Galleria Eustachi
2009 giugno - “Collettiva di Primavera” - Milano - Galleria Eustachi