Sabrina Garrasi is an Italian artist.
Her work explores the uncontrollable nature of dreams and illusions.
The same subject, explored over time, delves into the oneiric dimension and suspension of reality.
The abstract shapes seem to convey strange meanings or ancestral thoughts.
The artist abandons an initial concept by creating deconstructed images in an apparently random path.
Using a variety of media, including ink, acrylics, and pigments, she builds layers, erases, scratches, and overwrites.
These layers and pigment spots create intersections of color with varying focus and depth where light is applied, revised, and repainted.
Each painting is a personal narrative, a portal to artist's metaphysical vision.
An introspective look into her vision of space and time.
In parallel with her pictorial work, Sabrina focuses on the exploration of materials, drawing inspiration from Japanese ceramics. Thus, the vase-sculptures are born.
The initial project develops through the intricate process of modeling cotton paper and a very long construction phase involving other supportive or integrative materials.
The surface of each paper vase-sculpture creates the illusion that each piece is ceramic.
The modeled vase is sometimes covered with a mixture to achieve a 'stony' surface texture.
"My paper sculptures are some paintings on paper that I have discarded over time from my pictorial archive. I would like to make the pictorial works continue to live in other "forms" - giving them new meanings that blend with elegant lines, intense colors and ambiguous suggestions, so much so that they resemble Japanese ceramics.
Each of my paintings has its own history and meaning and I think that they can continue to live in other forms, in an alchemy between sculpture, material, painting, aesthetics and illusion."
Paper sculptures as containers of memory, in which every old painting resurfaces in the form of an object.