Chiara Silvano

I'm an italian artist based in Venice.
I'm very interested in the way art is intwined with real life, becoming the trace of our own emotional being. I see art as a mirror reflecting our inner insight, and I use it as a travel journal. My main way of expression is painting. I usually like to use oil paint on canvas. I’ve started to add embroidery on my canvases as well, finding the visual effect quite interesting and enjoy very much the act of embroidery itself: it is a slow process and my thoughts manage to slow down with it. It is quite like a meditation for me.
I also very much like collage. I enjoy creating a surface to allow the eyes to move around: our real world is made of things being there quite by chance, but with their own harmony and I seek to represent this by the collage technique.

In 2003 I graduated in Fine Art Painting at the Wimbledon College of Art, in London U.K. After few months spent at the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Nantes, in France, I went back to Italy where in 2007 I got my Master Degree in Visual Arts.

I mainly exibithed in Germany in group shows together with artists such as Baselitz, Grossman and TAL R and in 2015 I had my first solo show in Passau, Germany (Il peso della leggerezza/ Das Gewicht der Leichtigkeit – Solo Show- Spitalhofstrasse 94 Passaou- Curator: Kunstprojekte Sigrun C. M. Leyerseder).