Luna Colombini - Tao 3

The visual arts are the means by which I try to understand and investigate the present.
From this perspective I have identified fluidity as the key to reading: the fluidity, problems, and solutions of contemporaneity.
Having already entered the philosophical discourse of our time (Bauman), it is the word that signals an impossibility to define and settle on a choice or a concept.
Precisely as a free movement, typical of a liquid that seeps in and conforms to the shape that contains it, fluidity is defined as an independent and inexorable flow, capable of changing and adapting in order to pursue its own state.
It is perceived as a force to which we are subjected beyond our will to be human. As such it is an approach capable of shaping itself to the reality in which it finds itself living, each time, by dismantling the barriers of the logical structures to which we are accustomed.
Whether as critique or as invitation, the personal inquiry into this topic stems from an affiliation and fascination with the liquid state and the perception of its vital power, which is recognized as the underlying structure of the living, of nature, and of being. The way of flowing water, not by chance, is the way in which Taoist philosophy is named, based on the harmonious balance of the vital force and the unity of dualism.
By discovering it all through the individual’s experience, as in the practice of Yoga, we can identify a place within the chaos that would otherwise seem to prevail.

In the way of the flowing water: a series of 4 canvases “Tao” 84x84 cm, in oil and silver leaf.

Painter and illustrator, born in 1985, moves from Lucca to Florence to attend the Faculty of Art History.
in which she graduates in 2009. She continues her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence in the painting school, then in Bologna for the specialization in Illustration, in which she graduates in 2014 after a period of study at the École des Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg (FR).
In 2015 she won the illustration contest Notte di Fiaba, which led her to publish the book The True Story of Little Red Riding Hood for Orecchio Acerbo.
In 2015, together with other artists, he/she founded the Cartavetra association and gallery, and
attends the Sacred Art School of Florence.
After three years of teaching, in 2018 she spent a period in China as an art teacher for AD’A – Accademia d’arte di Firenze.
In 2020, they founded Stamperia n°1, a digital print shop for small print runs and paper creations, an artistic/cultural space and a graphic design studio closely connected to the local area.
They are currently a lecturer in graphic disciplines at the Vespucci-Colombo Institute in Livorno and a teacher of Iconography and Anatomical Drawing in the three-year illustration program at IED-Firenze.
She works as an illustrator and editorial graphic designer and lives in Tuscany.