ILARIA LEGANZA - QUESTA VOLTA MI E' ANDATA MALE

The series, originally consisting of 10 works, is titled "Pinocchio; A Thousand and One Stories" and was exhibited at the Fondazione Nazionale Carlo Collodi. TECHNIQUE: The works were created using a mixed media (bitumen, acrylic, chalk, pastel, wax) on wooden panel.
EXPRESSIVE STYLE AND SUBJECTS: the graphic design is surrealist, the subjects are taken from the real story of Pinocchio (salient scenes, chosen for their historical/narrative importance and personal artistic interest).

BIOGRAPHY: Ilaria Leganza, an artist and illustrator, lecturer in publishing graphics, and art education designer, trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, where she has lived and worked for many years. Her works reflect a surreal aesthetic, composed of complex architecture and suspended atmospheres, characterized by rigorously geometric compositions of a rationalist nature. Her graphic style, fully part of the "pop surrealist" genre, is distinguished and characterized by the use of earthy, livid, and shadowy colors; by the narration of sterile, off-screen spaces; and by the insertion of tiny, solitary individuals, dispersed within the walls of cities... human presences, frozen in their own space-time.
The inspirational core of his artistic production is to be found in the deepening of the relationship
intimate and social relationship between the individual and the living context in the postmodern dimension, creating shots of exteriors and interiors, alienating on an existential level that are fueled by the interaction between visionary urban architecture and anonymous figures.
Since 2000, the artist has developed a visual research approach based on the use of various iconographic languages and mediums. He has exhibited in Italy and abroad, for private and public institutions, garnering widespread critical acclaim for the uniqueness of his figurative language.