Debora Spadon

II paint what cannot always be explained in words.
I am a contemporary figurative artist with an intuitive and symbolic approach. Human figures, animals, words, coordinates and fragments of reality inhabit my paintings, creating unexpected connections between the real and the imagined.

I rarely begin with the intention of illustrating a precise idea. I prefer to let the painting reveal itself while I work. One image calls another, a color changes the direction of the composition, an apparently insignificant detail can become the key to the entire work. Intuition is an essential part of my creative process.Animals have gradually become an important presence in my visual language. They observe us, accompany us and sometimes become our alter egos. Monkeys, frogs, jellyfish, birds and other creatures allow me to look at human behavior from another point of view, often introducing irony into subjects that are anything but superficial.

Nature, water, coordinates, words and unexpected visual elements create spaces that do not completely belong to reality. I am interested in transformation, communication and disconnection, our relationship with nature and the strange contradictions of contemporary life.

My artistic education began at art school and continued with studies in scenography and decorative painting. Later, contemporary art and Street Art contributed to freeing my use of color and composition from more traditional boundaries.

Painting has accompanied the different stages of my life, and my language continues to change with me. I do not want to belong to a fixed definition. Each work is another fragment of the same journey: sometimes ironic, sometimes intimate, sometimes unsettling.

2022 Exhibition in Toronto. 2019 Location exhibition in the city of Milan.
2017 Exhibitions collective ART GALLERY "ART IS LIGHT"
2010 Exhibitions in locations in the country where I live