"L'ultimo velo" by Patrizia Grieco - "Abbracciando i Bamboo" collection.

Features:

Ceramic sculpture with enamels and glazing
Unique piece 
Year 2016
Dimensions: 60 x 8 cm

The Artwork:

This work is part of a series of 50 sculptures "Abbracciando i Bamboo" (as seen in the last photograph), inspired by the artist's 50-day residency as a guest artist in China in 2016.

The purpose of man and the artist in particular is to encounter, discover, immerse oneself and admire the culture of others. After these stages of the process, our hands create what treasures our soul takes from all these encounters. These works are the result of an encounter that my Italian soul had with the Miao, an ethnic group with extraordinary customs and traditions, as well as wonderful walks in the "bamboo sea" forests. And the encountering of eyes belonging to animals from a world so different from ours.

The Artist:

Patrizia Grieco is a contemporary sculptor who lives and works between Italy and France. She has collaborated with Simeoni, Lista and Duriez. In 2011 she founded the Ventiditalia group, together with other artists and the curator Nino Altilio. Since 2012 she has exhibited in Berlin, Sanremo, the Venice and Genoa Biennials, Naples, Zunyi (China), Fukuoka (Japan) and at the ancient De Martino furnaces with two exhibitions and performances: La Nostra Storia and Gabbie.

In 2016 she attended an artistic residence in Tucheng (China). In 2019 she was the winner of a Unesco project, along with the artist C. Guicheteau, which is currently in the process of being realized for an open-air museum.
Her works are present in the Museum of Nove, Museum of Modern Art in Tucheng (China), L.A.M Pomona (CA) and other public and private collections.
The artist says of her art: “I consider my works to be sort of autobiographical becasue they always express my joy, my love for life, nature and the surrounding world, but also the sadness of not recognizing myself in it, my worries, the restraints of modern society, and how to protect ourselves from them, and the ones we build ourselves ... This is what I would like to show through my work, my continuous journey towards knowledge that is deeply rooted in my past. "