Roberta Brugnolo

Trained as an architect, I approach painting as a construction of presence through absence.
The human figure never appears explicitly in my work, yet it is always there — as trace, tension, and silent passage. My research revolves around the relationship between humanity and Nature, between solitude and the need to be loved, between fragility and spiritual elevation.
Fabric becomes a sensitive skin. It is protection and barrier, stratification and memory. I shape it instinctively, allowing folds to emerge like landscapes, roots, or inner territories. The material records gesture the way earth records footsteps.
White is not emptiness. It is grace, union, and light. It holds all colors within itself. Through light, the surface transforms, shifting between abstraction and figuration, between the visible and the invisible.
The thread that sometimes crosses my works is connection — between human beings, between time and space. It is also the subtle trace of our passage, a fragile line that reminds us of our presence in the world.
My works do not describe a place. They evoke a condition.

Italian contemporary artist with a background in Architecture from IUAV University of Venice , she explores the intersection between matter, memory, and spiritual presence.
Her practice investigates the invisible trace of humanity within nature, using fabric, plaster, and layered surfaces to construct landscapes suspended between abstraction and figuration.

Ferrara Creativity Biennial 2024
Group exhibition at Palazzo Fani, Tuscania, Viterbo 2024
"BETWEEN BRANCHES AND LIGHT" solo exhibition at Villa Monte di Costacolonna, Vicenza, July 2025
"HUMUS ET HUMANUS" solo exhibition at Villa Monte di Costacolonna, Vicenza, October 2025