Caterina Vitellozzi was born in Rome and graduated in Oriental Languages. Art, with its anthropological and social value across various cultures, is a passion she developed and deepened during her travels and her career in communication. Mosaic, whose fundamentals and techniques she learned at the Ravenna Mosaicists Group, represents the starting point of her artistic journey, which evolves through the blending of different techniques: from classical and Byzantine mosaic procedures to the interdisciplinary languages of contemporary art. Caterina focuses her research on the relationship between humanity, Nature, and the environment; her works invite moments of reflection and create stimuli to reach new balances for a more sustainable and harmonious future.

In an era of extreme fragmentation, mosaic represents for her a way to reorder her environment in unison with Nature, our most precious guide. She enjoys choosing, touching, cutting, and combining different materials: from warmer and more natural ones such as wood, stones, gold, and fragments of nature, to seemingly colder and harsher ones such as glass paste (Venetian enamels), marble, glass, iron, and pieces of cement. She likes putting them together and creating a new balance each time, capable of communicating something to our ‘inner feeling.’ “Each of my compositions is unique, and in it, I try to ‘enclose’ that primordial purity, made of light, energy, and vibrations, capable of awakening our sensitivity and igniting the ability to contemplate, listen, and share emotions.

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“Cosmic Dance” has a clear Indian root, Shiva Nataraja, who in a circle of fire represents the cardinal points, triumphs over illusion and ignorance while reassuring devotees and granting them grace and refuge. This reflection on the circularity of becoming is transposed by mosaic artist Caterina Vitellozzi, through matter and away from traditional iconography, into the language of contemporary art.

The sensitivity to material sets Caterina's art apart from traditional mosaic. When the surface progresses through subtle variations, shifting from smooth to rough, from matte to shiny, the object changes with every shift of light, transforming throughout the solar hours and continuously creating new and diverse visual experiences. “I enjoy choosing, touching, cutting, and combining different materials,” says Caterina. “I range from warmer ones such as wood, stones, gold, and fragments of nature to seemingly colder and harsher: glass paste (Venetian enamels), marble, glass, iron, and pieces of cement.”

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