Segni d’acqua e di colore
Carla Chiaberta
Vernissage 29 june – 18:00
The violinist Lorenzo Stefano will perform:
A. Vivaldi, extracted from the III Movement Early Summer, from The Four Seasons
From 29 June to 13 July 2023
10:00 – 12:00
16:00 – 20:00
Carla Chiaberta, born in Turin, lives and works in Verbania on Lake Maggiore.
Initiated from adolescence to painting, towards the end of the 70s she discovered a vocation for watercolor. Graduated at the “Mediolanum artistic group” school in Milan (1979), member of the A.I.A. (Italian Watercolor Association) (since 1988), elected “Sociétaire” of the “Salon d’Automne” at the Grand Palais in Paris (since 1991) participates in Italian and international artistic life by taking part in important art events with personal and group exhibitions, obtaining numerous and prestigious awards, both in Italy (Verbania, Milan, Turin, Genoa, Verona, Rome, Siena, Arezzo) and abroad (Bern, Johannesburg, Paris, Dublin, Barcelona, Mexico City, Antwerp, Dallas, Moscow, St. Petersburg, New York, Fremantle – Australia).
The setting of the place where she lives, Lake Maggiore with its islands, gardens and surrounding landscape, but also the atmospheres of other places she has visited, have always been her source of inspiration.
Alongside portraits, bright glimpses of gardens and floral images, the watercolors inspired by music have had particular prominence and significance in her artistic production. In the various phases of her research, Carla Chiaberta used musical scores within the pictorial compositions.
The bond dear to her with music comes from the family environment in which she was born and raised, in particular from her father, composer and conductor.
The watercolor technique and that of the collage are thus united to associate with glimpses of landscape music notebook pages, melodic lines with profiles of mountains and horizons, the transparent and luminous nuances of water colors to the dynamic and expressive accents of music.
In this exhibition of hers in Florence, Carla Chiaberta presents a series of watercolors that summarize and highlight the technique and themes dearest to her. The delicacy of the chromatic strokes, which merge almost magically with the fluid element of water, translates into floral images portrayed in the passing of the seasons, in evanescent landscapes and atmospheres and in now pale memories.
The watercolor, as if it were a poem, becomes an expression of emotions and feelings for the painter.