Marisa Coppiano

Italian artist, I love to built atmospheres apparently light hues, yet slightly disturbing.
Small, colored reproductions on paper chanting a hymn to femininity, caught and described in its different facets.
I carefully select distilled segments of real life from newspapers and magazines, then I paste them into my pictorial universe made of meticulous cutouts of people, objects or simply colors. My language conveys emotions and thoughts, rather than reality. A discourse attentively construed using the expressive opportunities of collage, focusing on femininity.
The result brings the audience closer to a dreamlike experience, in which the characters fluctuate in evocative atmospheres able to reproduce the situations and feelings of real life. In my collages I take back the contemporary figurative culture to which I'm inspired. I de-codifies it and put it back on paper, following a unique grammar of signs and stereotypes, interpreting the female world or re-discovering some sort of alter ego to the image of herself.

My collages are a tribute to slowness and come from the need to find “room for myself” in a world stressed by pressing rhythms... a room in which i can “be free” without hesitation.
Free thoughts, unleashed, turn i...

Polytechnic University of Turin
Architecture

Blooming
June - Semptember 2015, Villa Cassuto, Livorno

Niente è come sembra
April 15 – May 12 2014, Chiostro del Bramante, Rome

Florilegio naturale _ artificiale
The Others, November 7 – 10 2013, Turin

Assemblement
April 20 - 22 2012, Atelier Mariateresa Grilli, Turin
May 12 – 20 2012, Palazzo Spinelli, Naples

Home Gallery Open Project
June 10 - July 1 2010, D.A.F.Na Home Gallery, Palazzo dei Principi Albertini di Cimitile, Naples
September 30 - October 21 2010, Concept Gallery, Rome
October 28 - November 18 2010, Madama C. art site, Turin
November 25 - Dicember 16 2010, Atelier 7, Paris