Dap D'Alfonso - Perla

Luigia d'Alfonso and Ada Perla, after following individual paths, decided in 2002 to share a studio, and their daily relationship stimulated them to start a new adventure together. The dialogue, fertile ground of their work, has shaped a conceptual construction whose origin is in the surname that binds them, Perla. The research on the pearl has connected their respective aesthetic and existential experiences. The image has slowly changed from an exogenous element to an inner suggestion that has allowed the authors to reach a common language: the Sabìr, chosen in allusion to the ancient, free and unwritten language of brokerage once spoken in the Mediterranean harbors.
The creative process of the artistic duo dap does not include preparatory sketches but individual thematic explorations that come together in their four-hand work. The experimentation of different pictorial techniques has been essential to achieve the expressive harmony between the artists and create a correspondence between concept and language. The pictorial stratification on dismissed fabrics that still store the time thickness of their past, starts from a careful choice of colors. The unique "mixed" technique that the artists have developed is fundamental in the...

Luigia d'Alfonso was born in 1967 in Rome where she has always lived and worked, ranging from jewelry design to textile design with cross-over into theater. Since 2002 she has shared an atelier of art and handcraft with Ada Perla, channeling then the reciprocal experiences towards an artistic research rooted in the Mediterranean origins.
Ada Perla was born in Rome in 1960, studied art since high school and graduated in art history. After working as a graphic designer for agencies and theaters, she shared an atelier with Luigia d'Alfonso for many years. In 2014 they started an adventure that led the artistic duo towards a common language: Sabìr.

2020
- SHE IS... 2020, the multi-disciplinary art group exhibition organized by One Art Space Gallery in TriBeCa, NY.
2019
- Sinergie Solidali Call for artists "Woman: from Object to Subject". "Ciaccerata... with the other face of the Moon", work selected for exhibition, Sinergie Solidali Association, Rome.
- ASREA Art Competition 2019: Sabir "The Flight of the Sirens", selected and exhibited at the group show at the Ex Cartiera Latina – Nagasawa Hall, Rome.
- Solo exhibition "Sabir - Visionary bridge", One Art Space Gallery, Tribeca, New York.
- XXX Porticato Gaetano, Certificate of special mention by Pinacoteca Comunale di Gaeta for the work "TMS": Totem Time Memory Mediterranean Space. The work is now part of the contemporary art collection of the Pinacoteca.
2018
- Group exhibition XXX Porticato Gaetano, art review "The space and time of memory",
Municipal Art Gallery "Antonio Sapone", Gaeta (LT).
- Group exhibition Umbria Art Festival of contemporary art, urban location Terni.
- Solo exhibition "Il Sabìr - pictorial plots", Pagea Contemporary Art Gallery, Angri (SA).
2014
- Solo exhibition "M.A.L.A.", Art Studio Monfalcone 16, Rome.

2013
- Solo exhibition "The colors of water", Art Studio Monfalcone 1...