Paola Ruggiero
Paola Ruggiero
Paola Ruggiero's art focuses on the contrast/interaction between masculine and feminine.
She is undoubtedly an artist who can fully claim the principle of making art by women.
Observing his works, one immediately notices a sort of secular mysticism in the images that moves parallel to the hypersensitive and meticulous care of the pictorial approach, subtle and refined, linear and believable, but also dreamlike and surprising.
The world the painter describes is a delicate and enchanted one, the result of an imaginative force capable of blending the peculiarities of both male and female feelings.
Ruggiero achieves all this by revisiting ancient, ancestral themes. She passionately dedicates herself to painting nudes, allowing herself to be drawn into a metaphysical dimension into which she pours her experiences with intimate feeling, through a sort of continuous introspection that keeps her away from rhetoric and ostentation.
Born into an artistic family, she frequents places steeped in history and spirituality, such as Calcata and Assisi. From these intense experiences, she draws an expressive language capable of testifying to her spiritual quest. Hers is a dimension in which a Christian spirit and a spirit less pagan than naturalistic effectively coexist, in the sense of a spontaneous and convinced adherence to the primary impulses of the heart that are the heritage of every individual. Her ability to extract sentiment from the depths of the soul and offer it, through a delicate essence, to all those who are open to the aesthetic experience is astonishing.
The art of Paola Ruggiero is based on the contrast/interaction between male and female.
It is undoubtedly the female artist who can rightfully claim for herself the principle of making a feminine art. There is, in fact, in her imagination a sort of secular mysticism of images, which makes it hypersensitive and very attentive to the subtle and refined care of pictorial writing, so linear and plausible in some ways and so dreamlike and suspended for others.
The world that the author describes is a delicate and enchanted world, for which the creative act is actually the result of the union of the two inseparable terms, deriving from the conjunction of masculine and feminine, from which art is concretely and effectively enerated.
She takes care of painting the nude with passion and involvement and at the same time she is clearly involved in a metaphysical dimension.
In her experiences are intimate feelings and continuous introspections that keep her away from any rhetoric and any ostentation. Born from archaeological experiences, daughter of art and then frequenter of remote places and at the same time very close to the deepest spirituality like Calcata and Assisi.
Ruggiero realizes her works mixed with a real spiritual search, Christian spirit and a spirit not so much pagan as naturalistic, in the sense of a spontaneous and convinced adhesion to the primary motions of the heart that are the patrimony of every individual, but that the artist is in charge, as to extract from the depths of the soul, to show a delicate essence of art.
