Luna Colombini - Tao 4

The visual arts are the means by which I try to understand and investigate the present.
In this light I have identified fluidity as the key lens for reading: fluidity, the problem, and the solution of contemporaneity.
Already part of the philosophical reading of our time (Bauman), it is the word that signals an impossibility to define and close off a choice or a concept.
Precisely because it is a free movement, characteristic of a liquid that seeps in, adapting to the shape of its container, 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 as human beings. As such, it is an approach capable of shaping itself to the reality in which it finds itself living from time to time, undermining the barriers of the logical structures to which we are accustomed.
Whether as critique or as invitation, 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 Taoist philosophy is named, based on the harmonious balance of the vital force and the unity of dualism.
By uncovering it all through the experience of the individual, as in the practice of Yoga, we can locate a place in the chaos that would otherwise seem to prevail.

In the Way of the Water That Flows: series of 4 canvases “Tao” 84x84 cm, in oil and silver leaf

Painter and illustrator, born in 1985, moves from Lucca to Florence to study Art History at the Faculty of Art History.
In which she graduates in 2009. She continues her studies at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze in the painting school, then in Bologna for the master’s 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 wins the Notte di Fiaba illustration contest, which leads her to publish the book The True Story of Little Red Riding Hood for Orecchio Acerbo.
In 2015, he founded, together with other artists, 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 printing workshop for small runs and paper creations, an artistic/cultural space and graphic design studio closely connected to the territory.
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.