Giglia Acquaviva
Contemporary Visual Artist
Original Handmade Works
BIOGRAPHY AND TECHNIQUE
Giglia Acquaviva began her artistic career as a qualified pianist before dedicating herself fully to the Visual Arts.
To express his aesthetic intuition, he created two of the three techniques he used in his 40-year career.
Three net periods are warned:
Leather Tapestry Period (proprietary technique)
Silk Painting Period.
Acrylic Period in Relief, with the use of Sand (own technique)
Each of these periods contributed elements that shaped his style, which is today recognisable for elevating the drawing stroke to the forefront of perception, and for bestowing upon colour the chiaroscuro that distinguishes it.
Giglia was born shortly before spring 1961 in a family where there was no lack of art: music, painting and theatre. This was in Mendoza, Argentina.
The best hours of playing were spent at the piano keys from the age of 5, and although she couldn't put it into words, she already imagined herself emulating the great jazz musicians of the era. At that time her family resided in California, USA, where she grew up near the marvellous mountains of Yosemite Park. This nature would strongly shape her appreciation for beauty and awaken the need for a language with which to express it.
At the age of ten, in Argentina, Giglia began serious studies in Piano and Composition at the Faculty of Arts of the National University of Cuyo.
Although music would be a sufficient tool for a long artistic life, she still needed to conquer a medium that attracted her with passionate energy: Colour. As one who allows themselves a simple relaxation, she opened a parenthesis in her life, dedicating herself to the creation of a technique that would prove to be the beginning of her career as a painter. It was about
LEATHER UPHOLSTERYThe shapes are embedded in the most precious texture and colouring.
The curiosity for the works of the great masters of painting (Picasso, Gauguin, Magritte, Klimt, Cezanne) and for the cultures of all times was transformed into an extensive series of reproductions.
Fifteen years of constant practice and observation gave him the impetus he needed to create his own drawings.
Since then, the decidedly cubist and expressionist influences were born. In 2001 received a laudatory First Prize from Hermenegildo Sabat - a great Argentinean artist whom she admired so much - with her work Tribute to Goodbye Nonino (Leather tapestry on acrylic painted background)
The need to express her ideas more quickly led her to explore new techniques.
The year was 2002 when a very fertile period of PAINTING ON SILK. This technique requires great speed of drawing and brushwork, precisely the opposite rhythm that she had applied in the construction of tapestries. It was her sister Gisela Aquaviva, an expert painter, who initiated her.
In 2006, now living in Italy, he brought together the two techniques he had been practising in a new creation: RELIEF PAINTINGS
Relief became definitively the expressive resource par excellence, giving a hierarchy to the line on a par with colour. No line would remain hidden: the drawing would cease to be the invisible builder of the work to take the foreground of expression.
And every inch of colour would unfold in its own shades of light and dark, just as the beauty of the leather had taught it.
His self-taught training, always observing the great masters, opened Giglia's curiosity for the artistic expressions of all cultures. Today we can see in his works the influences of Greek and Etruscan art, Aztec, Inca, Roman, Oriental, all brought together in a style that fully characterises it.
The Works have been sought after by collectors all over the world, and are particularly notable in Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Spain, England, France, Belgium, the United States, Canada, China, Japan and Argentina.
TECHNIQUES
LEATHER TAPESTRIES ( 1986 - 2001)
Recreation Three Musicians from Pablo Picasso
leather upholstery
Indian Elephant
Leather upholstery
Recreation ofRelativityof M.Escher
Leather upholstery
Recreation of Three women at the Fountainof Pablo Picasso
Leather upholstery
Goodbye Nonino
Hermenegildo Sabat Prize
Leather upholstery
PAINTINGS ON SILK (2001 - 2006)
Two Women
Silk painting
Abstract Snippets
Silk painting
I'll be right back
Silk painting
CURRENT PERIOD: RELIEF ART
Fabric preparation.
Acrylic drawing with sand.
Colour
Work completed, Sailing Boats.