Anna Caruso

My work revolves around the dialogue between memories, both past and present, and individual space.
I’ve been drawing unlikely spaces yet, at the same time they can be easily linked back to reality.
The specific place is not relevant, nor can the human presence define the substance. The key of the representation is the dilemma of inappropriateness we constantly feel as human beings, our fears and yearnings to belong in the same place. That place is identified through structural elements that the observer will recognize as watch towers, which symbolize looking beyond.

The use of architectural elements deprived of their real position, adds an urban dimension to my work that leads the observer to think about human beings, even if they are not represented in the composition itself. The figures used, inspired by old vintage photos, are painted in shades of grey and purposely isolated from their own context; as a warning and suspended dialogue with the present day. White canvas co-stars alongside painted surfaces and holds the same communicative value.
I use transparency and overlapping in order to represent simultaneity. I want the observer to be drawn away from the reality of what is being shown to him and led back to an imaginar...

Solo Shows
2014
• Tetris, Studio D’Arte Cannaviello, Milano, Italy
• Memoria bianca, Spazio Luidig, Benevento, Italy, direzione Enzo Cannaviello
2012
C’ero, una volta, E-Lite StudioGallery, Lecce, Italy, a cura di | curated by Claudia Pellegrino,
Zanotto.
2011
Nessun Mago a Oz, Villa Tasca, Brembate (Mi) , Italy
Group Shows
2014
• “Nuova pittura italiana”, Galleria Interno 18, Cremona, Italy, direzione Cannaviello
• “Nuova pittura italiana”, Spazio Parobrod, Belgrado
• “Premio Arte Laguna”, Arsenale, Venezia, Italy
2013
• “ “Nuova pittura italiana”, Studio d’arte Cannaviello, Milano, Italy
• “Nuova pittura italiana”, Spazio Aquadro, Roma, Italy
• “Premio Arte 2013″, Museo della Permanente, Milano, Italy
• “Nuova pittura italiana”, Opere Scelte, Torino, Italy
• Combat Prize 2013, Museo Fattori, Livorno, Italy, curated by Andrea Bruciati, Antonio Arevalo,
Francesca Baboni, Gigliola Foschi, Marco Tonelli, Stefano Taddei
• “Nuova pittura italiana”, Spazio Luidig, Benevento, Italy
• Asta benefica AAM, Arte Accessibile, Milano, curated by Ivan Quaroni
2012
• Coexist. eight different kind of fantastic art, E-Lite StudioGallery, Lecce, curated by Ivan Quaroni.
• Surf, White Gallery, Milano, curated by Giovanni Poli...