Artworks of Paola Magini, contemporary artist based in Tuscany, Italy
Paola Magini Art Lab
About
Paola Magini is an Italian contemporary artist, based in the countryside of the province of Pisa, where she lives with her colony of exotic Australian birds.
After several years dedicated to the creation of original mural paintings in both public and private enviromnment, she continues her artistic journey focusing on paintings. Her creations consist mainly of paintings on board in mixed media. At the same time, she also works as a tattoo artist.
Paola Magini was born in Siena and dedicated herself to drawing and painting since she was a child, but she received her first artistic training at the Duccio di Buoninsegna Art Institute in Siena.
After a year at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, she learned the technique of fresco and mural paintings with the painter Paolo Graziani, who led her to create numerous private and public works throughout the country, practicing painting at a professional level, participating in exhibitions and winning competitions for the creation of public artworks.
Among the latter, we mention the public works created outdoors:
the frescoes in Parlasco and Taceno (LC) in 2007, Marentino (TO) again in 2007 where she received certificate of participation from Vittorio Sgarbi.
The murals in Guidizzolo (MN), Gavazzana (AL),
Valloria (IM) in 2008, in Sommo (PV) in 2008 and 2009, Bagnasco (CN) in 2010 and 2011, the fresco in Santa Brigida (BG) in 2015.
In March 2016 she won the competition of the municipality of Rovereto (TN) where she created a mural on the ceiling of the porch of the new Filzi elementary school.
In July 2017, again in Trentino, she won a competition for the creation of a silicate painting for the E.Mosna primary school in Aldeno (TN).
In October 2018 she worked in Strigno (TN) at the retirement home “Redenta Floriani”, after winning another competition in the province of Trento.
In 2021 she created the external decoration of the Hotel Alexandra in Vinci.
Artist statement
The general style of the works is influenced by various geographical and historical cultural elements, but more accentuated by the decorative elements of Islamic culture, sometimes mixed with graphic elements belonging to the present period and others from Renaissance and Flemish art. The works are formally figurative and realistic, with a dreamlike atmosphere and ‘suspended’ in time.
Some symbolic elements are frequently present in the paintings that refer to the underlying spiritual message. Among these are doors, water or fountains (symbols often present in the Scriptures) as well as other elements typical of the artist’s personal iconography. The people depicted are a synthesis of future and past humanity, dressed in vintage clothes and hairstyles, but full of tattoos and with hair often as colorful as humanity of the present time.
“The purpose of my work, in addition to satisfying the creative need that I have felt since I was a child,
consists in wanting to push people to make an in-depth reflection on the importance of spirituality in their lives, as a healthier approach to oppose the rampant materialism in today’s society.
A society that pushes people to the most unbridled individualism and consumerism, a lifestyle that clearly damages people’s mental health. Through the teaching of the Scriptures and a serious meditation on society and its behaviors, one can achieve a new awareness and hope for the future.”
Technically, the paintings are generally made on wood with a mixed technique of oil and acrylic colors, together with gold leaf
Exhibitions
2024 group exhibition ‘Every life converges to some center’ OnArt Gallery Florence
2024 solo exhibition Manni Art Gallery Venice Lido (VE)
2023 solo exhibition ‘The matter of dreams’ at the Palazzo Pretorio in Volterra (PI)
2018 exhibits at the ArteGenova fair
2017 group exhibition “Contemporary trends” at the Merlino gallery (FI)
2016 group exhibition “Art symposium 2016” at the Merlino gallery
2015 group exhibition “a river of colors” within the Fiumarte exhibition. San Miniato (PI)
2014 group exhibition “Reality reinterpreted” at the gallery “Immagini Spazio Arte di Cremona”
2014 group exhibition “From Venice to Bellagio to discover the artists of the Third between Abstract and Figurative” Torre delle Arti di Bellagio (CO),
2012 solo exhibition at the Manni Art Gallery at the Lido di Venezia (VE),
2011 exhibits at the gallery “La Fenice” (VE),
2011 group exhibition at the Palazzo Pesaro Papafava (VE).