Elena Mutinelli

Biography

Elena Mutinelli, sculptress figurative, was born in Milan on 4th July 1967.
After achieving the degree in Sculpture at Accademia di Belle Arti in Brera (Brera School of Fine Arts), in 1989/1990 academic year with the teachers A. Cavaliere, Cascella, L. Silvestri, in 1990/91 she moved to Pietrasanta (Lucca - Tuscany), in order to learn marble working technique.
In the years 1992-1995, she worked between Milan and Pietrasanta and then, in 1995, she definitively settled in Milan, where she had the opportunity to weave together professional relationships with famous Art Galleries
From 1998 until 2004 she decided to open a new studio, where she could completely dedicate herself to sculpture and to the work of Milan Cathedral: in these years, in fact, she permanently set herself up as external partner of La Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo di Milano (Time-honoured Factory of Milan Cathedral), for whom she had been working occasionally since 1992.
During the collaboration with La Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo di Milano, she was involved in the reproduction of original marble works with the creation of marble work copies, she made in her studio.
Elena Mutinelli’s works are parts of many private and public collections, among w...

SCULTURA-ACCADEMIA DI BELLE ARTI DI BRERA, Milan Italy

critical text:
“Hands on the body " Villa Rufolo, Ravello- Salerno; the exhibition personal 1998

Giorgio Segato
Elena Mutinelli: The Michelangelo of the 2oth Century

We know that in the visual arts and in particular in sculpture, the female names of national and international importance, which live only of art, are very few in the world. Two names come in mind: the French Louise Bourgeois and the German Kiki Smith, both famous worldwide. In Italy no woman has ever arrived at the Olympus, earning a living with art. The exception (and a beautiful reality) is represented by a young artist (in her forties, therefore a little girl in the world of art) who for some time has been noted for her innate strength in her style, a primordial wisdom in the creation and execution of her sculptures of body parts, in a sensual and realistic atmosphere. The artist is Elena Mutinelli, blonde with piercing and investigating clear eyes, provided with striking physical strength, in a small body, full of nerves and ideas. Her themes are man, virility, the plasticity of the bodies, and the predatory character of human beings. She sculpts gnarled hands, with fingers ready to grab and hold y...

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