Luna Colombini - Yoga

The visual arts are the means by which I seek to understand and investigate the present.
In this perspective, I have identified fluidity as the key to reading—the problem and solution of contemporaneity.
Having already entered the philosophical discourse of our time (Bauman), it is the word that signals an impossibility to define and settle a choice or a concept.
Precisely because it is a free movement, typical of a liquid that insinuates itself, adapting to the shape of what 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 it finds itself living in, time and again, breaking down the barriers of the logical structures we are accustomed to.
Whether as critique or invitation, the personal inquiry into this theme stems from an affiliation and fascination with the liquid state and the perception of its vital power, which is recognized as the framework underlying the living, nature, and being. The Way of flowing water, not by chance, is the way Taoist philosophy is named, based on the harmonious balance of vital force and the unity of dualism.
By discovering it all through the experience of the individual, as in the practice of Yoga, we can identify a place in the chaos that would otherwise seem to prevail.

On the Path of the Flowing Water: Yoga Series

Painter and illustrator born in 1985, she moves from Lucca to Florence to attend the Faculty of Art History.
in which he/she graduates in 2009. He/she continues his/her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence in the painting school, then in Bologna for the master's in Illustration, in which he/she graduates in 2014 after a period of study at the École des arts décoratifs of Strasbourg (FR).
In 2015 she won the Notte di Fiaba illustration contest, which led her to publish the book The Real 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 at AD’A – Academy of Art of Florence.
In 2020 he founded Stamperia n°1, a digital printing workshop for small editions and paper creations, an artistic/cultural space and a 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.