Biography

Giglia Acquaviva

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 play were spent on the keys of a piano from the time she was 5 years old, and although she didn't know how to say it, she already imagined being able to imitate the great jazzmen of the time. At that time her family lived in California, USA, where she grew up near the beautiful mountains of Yosemite Park. Nature would strongly signal the emotion for the beautiful and awaken the need for a language with which to express it.

At the age of ten, in Argentina, Giglia began seriously studying Piano and Composition, which she finished at the age of 22 at the National Conservatory of Music. Although music would be enough tool for a long artistic life, she still needed to conquer a medium that attracted her with passionate energy: Colour. Like someone who indulges in a simple relaxation, she opened a parenthesis in her life by giving herself to the creation of a technique which would prove to be the beginning of her career as a painter. It was 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.