Oracula 11 Print

Stefania Puntaroli was born in Prato, Tuscany. She studied at Pistoia Art Institute and she graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, before continuing her studies at Florence’s internationally renowned printmaking school “Il Bisonte”. Since 1995 she has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions, participating in Biennal and Triennal of graphic, International Symposia in painting and sculpture, devoting also to installation and performance. Her works are in public and private collections in Italy and abroad. “ The complex of the works by Stefania Puntaroli seems to advance a fundamental dialogue for the reality of the modern women artists, by weaving the historical lesson of Carla Accardi, beyond differences and variations of the Abstract Art. This conversation spontaneously took place, moved by the natural flow of her vision which interprets the heritage of a cosmological vision, and moreover, magnetically continued through a clear concatenation of subjects where her works find shape and direction.In this framework, Stefania Puntaroli accompanies us through the maze of her imagination and kaleidoscopic vision, which all in all reflects a precise sequence and an exact order[...] Nature and Culture , which is the primary matrix that brings out the radical choices of the artistic act , which Stefania Puntaroli brilliantly declines through the codes of Engraving , Painting, Photography and Performance . The essence of this work finds a fertile ground in the art of Engraving, a well-established and enduring passion that the artist has been cultivating since the studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, in 1995, with a careful dedication, juxtaposed to the idea of sign. This is often accompanied by the research for a multicultural symbolism beyond geographical boundaries where to find common roots and new interpretations on the basis of common traits of an ancient civilizations – this is the case of studies for cave paintings (Val Camonic, Italy) in search of an artistic vernacular language. From this premise, the style is recognizable in the texture of the image where the line, both abstract and representational, is identified for its depth, relief, stroke and direction of different materials including paper and fabric, expertly conducted by the hand of the artist.