Il Canto del Fuoco - The Fire's Song Print

LeoNilde Carabba, born in Monza on the 28th of November 1938, presently lives in Milan. LeoNilde's first works are refined rythmical compositions on a geometrical texture. In the Seventies LeoNilde was strongly involved in the Women's Movement and her work became free from geometrical motifs and more fluent - with motifs of seas, skies, trees, geological descriptions of the earth's crust on increasingly large canvases.

In 1982 she began to paint on wooden boards and moved to Bolinas, California, where she has remained for five years. Pierre Restany said of her work:

"You just need to pay some attention to the lyrical morphology of LeoNilde Carabba's language to understand the obvious fact that her painting is made with skin, blood and heart. By adopting this kind of language she demonstrates her complete unselfishness in meeting her fate".

In 1988 she was back again in Milan. In the last decade her work has become more refined and hinged on depth symbols, about which Riccardo Barletta wrote:

"Symbols of no time and no place, as they can be found in any age or culture. The Sacred Mountain, the Maze, the Sun, the Zigurath, the Pyramid, the Mandala. It is a sort ofdictionary where any word becomesthe Word".

LeoNilde Carabba has always used her works, that we will conventionally define abstract, to express the idea of the coincidence between fantastic invention and geometric rule, between rigor, compositive mastery and the smooth fluidity of the sign, that often appears like an ocean wave or a swarming of crushed drops-and in fact you are not certain whether it is a matter of pebbles or drops of water. Taking inspiration, as the case may be, from emotions produced by nature or by geometric prototypes of ancient civilizations, she has proceeded from rhythmic compositions dominated by mathematical rule to chromatic fluidities interpreted trough striking textures: eventually, in recent years, she has come to alternate the two formulas; often associating images - the fruit of spontaneous emotions and at the same time of intellectual reading with scientific or cabbalistic interpretations.