Elisabetta Marino
Through the traditional languages of painting and a non-linear narrative structure, Elisabetta Marino’s research focuses on evocative images situated in a liminal zone of time. In her works she synthesises a personal idea of contemporary archaeology made of varied colours and forms, using references to classical art grafted onto pop drifts and postmodern syntax.
Elisabetta Marino’s painting gives total centrality to the figures she portrays, often detaching them from the background and placing them in seemingly digital atmospheres. Her works reconstruct the sense of a past time that makes ancient history the matrix of intimate sensations expressed through colour, intersecting the ancient and the present. She currently works with various media, from screen printing to digital collage, from video to sculpture with unconventional synthetic pastes.
She studied Architecture and Landscape at the University of Palermo and then graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in the same city. Winner of the Premio Factus, she has collaborated several times with the Verein Düsseldorf-Palermo. She took part in the Planeta Session/Moon project, and some of her recent works were chosen for the communication of the Ortigia Sound System Festival. Her works are in the Soho House Rome collection.