Li Abbiati

Li Giada Abbiati was born in Milano on 16-11-1975, were she graduated at the Accademia di Belle Arti of
Milan.
She has always been interested in a wide range of art and drawing, including illustration and comics as well
as painting and sculpture.

She attended school of drawing of the illustrator Ettore Maiotti.
Projects and collaborations:
She illustrated the Illy-Cafè catalogue.
Created sketches for the Joylab studio, specialized in corporate events.
Promoted various artistic materials, for Colart, using a range of artistic techniques.
Illustrated the Microsoft advertising campaign.
Made sculptures out of polystyrene and stage sets for productions by the Franco Parenti Theatre of Milano
Worked on projects for various theatres in Milan including the Scala Theatre, the Franco Parenti Theatre and
other less famous ones.
Carried out many projects for cinema and television sets and for TV advertisements.
Currently employed as decorator/colourist for FORNASETTI, making copies of his works and hand painting
these on furniture and accessories. Over the years, she has gained expertise on the work and technique of
this artist.

Solo exhibitions:
URBAN PARALLEL FRAGMENTS
The urban landscapes painted by Li Abbiati are characterised by a strong irrational component.
The works are both displayed and projected while the sophisticated experimental electronic music by Figli di
Diapa adds a further layer to the visual aspect.
The skyscrapers are depicted, with fragmented vertical lines, as rectangular modules, which tease the idea
of rational shapes, creating impossible structures both attracting and repelling one another.
Video adds a further point of view, namely a gliding viewpoint from above, over these urban spaces,
discovering a new perspective.
In a landscape made of right-angles and outstretched parallel lines, the only curves which remind one of
nature are those of clouds, that, from above, hint at an alternative path, where the irrational becomes an
imaginative possibility for change.
The tension, which results from the sounds, the alienating environment and the unexpected playful elements,
augments the experience of fragmentation of planes and escape from reality.
Pim Spazio scenico
Milano, Giugno 2011.

Architecture has always implied a conception of life in relation to space. A building is able to communicate,
through the shape that characterizes it,...