Paola Magini

Paola Magini is an Italian contemporary artist, based in the countryside of the province of Pisa, where she lives with her colony of exotic Australian birds.

After several years dedicated to the creation of original mural paintings in both public and private enviromnment, she continues her artistic journey focusing on board paintings.

Artist statement

The general style of the works is influenced by cultural elements of various geographical and historical origins, but more accentuated by the decorative elements of Islamic culture, sometimes mixed with graphic elements belonging to the present period and others from Renaissance and Flemish art. The works are formally figurative and realistic, with a dreamlike atmosphere and 'suspended' in time.

Some symbolic elements are frequently present in the paintings that refer to the underlying spiritual message. Among these are doors, water or fountains (symbols often present in the Scriptures) as well as other elements typical of the artist's personal iconography. The people depicted are a synthesis of future and past humanity, dressed in vintage clothes and hairstyles, but full of tattoos and with hair often as colorful as humanity of the present time.

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She received her first artistic training at the Duccio di Buoninsegna Art Institute in Siena.
After a year at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, she learned the technique of fresco and mural paintings with the painter Paolo Graziani.

2024 collective exhibition 'Every life converges to some center' OnArt Gallery Florence
2024 solo exhibition Manni Art Gallery Venice Lido (VE)
2023 solo exhibition 'The matter of dreams' at the Palazzo Pretorio in Volterra (PI)
2018 exhibits at the ArteGenova fair

2017 collective exhibition "Contemporary trends" at the Merlino gallery (FI)

2016 collective exhibition "Art symposium 2016" at the Merlino gallery

2015 collective exhibition "a river of colors" within the Fiumarte exhibition. San Miniato (PI)

2014 collective exhibition “Reality reinterpreted” at the gallery "Immagini Spazio Arte di Cremona"

2014 collective exhibition “From Venice to Bellagio to discover the artists of the Third between Abstract and Figurative” Torre delle Arti di Bellagio (CO),

2012 solo exhibition at the Manni Art Gallery at the Lido di Venezia (VE),

2011 collective exhibition at the gallery "La Fenice" (VE),

2011 collective exhibition at the Palazzo Pesaro Papafava (VE).