"Drops" Painting

Artist Statement

I have always carried out my research with the aim of finding and giving to the viewer a balance, which is not only formal, but which tries to harmonize contrasts.
Over time, my paintings have combined elements such as the complexity of perspective, the soft tones of the suffused light typical of European settings, but also the softness of natural elements and the clear sign of abstraction, elements which, in my paintings, dialogue in a way so as to make peace with their extremes, thus presenting themselves in their most ethereal, simple and intimate form.
With a contemplative but at the same time analytical gaze, my paintings try to give a new order to known images, suspended through my work in an aura that recalls
much more the dream, the unconscious and the invisible, rather than the formal qualities through which we are tend to observe.

Biography
Silvana Chiozza was born in Buenos Aires, lives and works in Rome. She began painting at just 5 years old with the Argentine master Battle Planas, she continued her painting
training in parallel with her university career in medicine with her paternal grandfather, a marine painter in the neighbourhood of La Boca in Buenos Aires. In 1988 she moved to Rome. She was struck by soft light, which characterizes her first figurative works. She makes countless viewpoints, choosing angles that are never frontal, almost unknown subjects, hidden corners of the city, characterized by the representation of places without human presence, silent, and suspended in time, working with a choice of
tonal palette, and a Morandi-like atmosphere, in her works the colours of Rome, the Sienna, the ochre and grays, and the blue of the sky shape her chromatic identity that in addition
to figuration will later characterize her abstract works.
Around 2010 her works reach a synthesis that precedes the transition to abstraction. She begins to create informal abstract works using mixed and experimental techniques, making contaminations with various materials. Creating material surfaces, vibrant, “colorfield” in Rothko’s stile, also finding inspiration in the works of Manolo Valdez.
Her immersion in abstraction enriches her work with new elements, giving rise to a new phase of fusion of the two pictorial languages. She returns to landscapes and her favorite places from a new angle, choosing aerial views, working with spatula in short brush strokes, creating vibrant surfaces, suspended, silent and dreamy atmospheres.