Don't tell me Painting

Born in Parma (Italy), she has lived in Bologna, Palermo, Rome, Milan, Vienna, and Berlin. Following the effects of the 2020 lockdown, she decided to leave Berlin and move to the countryside in the Sicilian hinterland. Rediscovering the benefits and inspiration of living in close contact with nature, she chose to stay there with her partner, occasionally traveling for work, leisure, and personal growth. About my work: “Light caresses of nail polish, acrylic color laid with a reasoned thrift frequently transmuted into anger and hysteria, strokes of full-bodied lipstick capable of restoring carnal sensuality to frigid cover beauties, herein do we behold Militello intent on completing her precious creations. Her atypical work has remote beginnings, from the purely feminine act of habitually leafing through a fashion or lifestyle magazine; it is from that absent-minded browsing that the young Sicilian artist’s quest began, a truly ardent desire to possess, distort and reinvent images. As with the most relentless of predators, her choices are cunning, including photos of women, men, and sometimes even children, from which she will revolutionize clothes and make-up, which, and this is the innate talent, restores expressiveness and feeling. Painting on a blank canvas ensures total freedom for an artist; overlaying paint, instead, requires rigor and discipline. The substrate image, initially “the master,” now overwhelmed with a suffocating cover painting, strives to emerge at all costs. Sinuous bodies, never static, are sometimes willfully sketched and incomplete, with nudity never being vulgar. Posing for fashion magazines, figures of elegant bearing, proud and distinct in their painstakingly artificial scenic presentation, are the women to whom Militello returns spontaneity, expressiveness, and form. Each of her works captures a different essence. Her colors emanate meaning, predominantly in the passion of red contrasted with the darkness of black and the brightness of white. The most intimate expression of Militello’s emotions occurs in her inner balance between logic and creative dexterity. The result is the admirable transposition of feelings, in the static physicality of the elaborated figures, all of which reach toward the infinite of personal and collective existence. In the more mature phase of her creative process, the artist decided to evolve in her use of magazine pages, experimenting with new materials from billboards, the industry’s “pop art.