Giulia Bia

Since childhood, when I took to painting, the female body has been my main source of inspiration, and it still is the "fil rouge", the metaphor and the symbol of everything I create, from paintings to short stories. My women started out as being represented in a realistic way; now they're getting more and more surreal and able to tell a complete story or invite the viewer to invent one, influenced in this by the fascination for goth artists like Santerineross, Laurie Lipton, Shannon Hourigan.
I think my paintings reflect the separation between the rational and the irrational sides of my character: I depict bodies that are sensual, erotic, appealing but at the same time polished, flawless and cold; I indulge in decorative, moving, curvilinear patterns, but there is always an obsessive streak to them. I've always considered the women I paint as a mixture of amazon and geisha, aware of their beauty and coldly, sarcastically intentioned to leave the viewer to question himself on their mysteries, without giving clues or answers. They stare in your eyes just to defy you or, if you think they're out to seduce you, the just mean to play or to exert their power.
I often let people "interpret" my paintings as they prefer, according t...

May 28 2015, c/o Doctor Sax, Torino

June 20 - 27 2015, exhibition in Giaveno (Torino)

28 June 2015, Museo di Camo, Palazzo del Municipio di Camo (Cuneo)

12 - 18th Semptember 2015, Go To Gallery, via Bidone 16, Torino

2012: BlackLamb, 2nd edition, Antwerp

23 September- 1 October 2011: BlackLamb, 1st edition, Mechelen (Belgium)