sospesi Painting

Laura Tarabocchia, born in Genoa on 12 March 1963, lives and works in Savona, where he devotes with passion the bookbinding art. The artist was fascinated by the marbling and the mimicking of shapes, typical of the richly coloured peacock tail, created by the Chinese in the III century a. C. and used in Europe till the 19th century by the bookbinders for book covers. She has performed successfully not only in the work of binding, but also in the artistic field. In this way Laura Tarabocchia has developed a technical and an artistic research, witnessed by Lauras Cards, that has no comparison. Hers is a very personal rereading of the technique of painted paper that she is able to turn in an artistic tale, though coming from a production almost mechanically repetitive. Her performance is always very peculiar, while she uses that ancient, sophisticated, but well-documented technique, in which the water is an essential agent. Her patient work in the creation of coloured twisting shapes owns a sense of deep imagination, a good taste for colours and a big love for what she is bringing out, that only a soul, which draws inspiration by art, may have the knowledge of. Anna Maria Faldini In order to understand the charm that Laura Tarabocchia is able to create with her cards (and not only with them) it is necessary to see her working. It is incredible to see how, only with a simple gesture, a sheet of White Paper becomes covered suddenly by colours and shapes that create a delightful ensemble. It seems she is possessed by a magic wand: the sheet of paper passes through a liquid, wisely coloured by her, and here is: an art work is coming out! On the contrary Laura has no magic wand nor she relies on enchanted and witched brew. With simple tools and a mixture of colours, made by her, she can create true masterpieces. When I asked in which way her passion was born in her, he replied: " by chance". This young woman, in fact, is a person full of artistic skills but she is also full with an inner strength leading her to find the ways to achieve and express what she has in the deep of her mind. And looking and studying for the technique of marbled and twisted shapes over paper, after years of attempts, Lauras Cards were born. Of course Laura did not stop here: after the Cards, here are the masks, the candle holders, large and small ceramic objects, but all those works arrived after her books, enhanced by her Cards and personalized by her golden writings.