Anna Capolupo

Anna Capolupo’s research revolves around the life of everyday things, duly arranged in the furrow of a pictorial tradition such as still life, with a visual and conceptual orientation that renews a genre codified by art history and offers new keys to reading her own domestic reality. Her still lifes are characterised by the presence of a platform, a table on which childhood toys, plants, vases, classical-style finds and everyday objects rest; a plane of symbolic value that elevates the ordinary and the prosaic to an extraordinary and enigmatic dimension, as if we were facing a theatrical scene. What instils this dreamlike atmosphere is colour, with its rampant and often unnatural expressive force; it is the outline of elements devoted to the unfinished and to blending into the surrounding scene; it is the singular juxtaposition of certain things, as if they had come together more by play than for any practical reason. The table top, almost imperceptible, naturally frames and displays the artist’s inner world, divided between dream and reality: two registers of reading that are synthesised in the pictorial tangle of the still life.