Flaminia Mantegazza

Flaminia Mantegazza
Italia
Creates collages from recycled paper shaped like mosaic tiles, playing with contrasts of color, material, and form, suspended between painting and sculpture; exhibited in Italy and abroad

Born in Rio de Janeiro and holding degrees in Economics and History, she began her artistic career in Rio by attending the School of Visual Arts at Parque Lage. Later, in the late 1990s, she moved to Rome, where she studied at the School of Ornamental Art and the Porta Blu School. She lives and works in Rome.

The technique used by the Artist is collage, created mainly with recycled paper from magazines and newspapers, which she transforms into new life through skillfully shaped fragments.

Her works arise from a dynamic of materialization and dematerialization within processes that can be described as sculptural-pictorial. Flaminia moves with ease across the terrain of an informal visual tradition, creating canvases of material inspiration in which magazine paper is used like the tiles of a mosaic. Spread and shaped like a substance, the small fragments emerge from the surface, loosening the boundary between two-dimensional imagery and plastic form, suspended between painting and sculptural practice.

What emerges within her works is therefore a play of contrasts: between color and color, color and material, between the smooth monochrome canvas and the volume, the physicality, the presence of paper that becomes form and mass, yet remains abstract in its essential nature.

Over the past ten years, she has exhibited in various cities, both in Italy and abroad, including Rome, Milan, Capri, Lucca, Faenza, London and Istanbul.