Nicolotti Vanna

Vanna Nicolotti, studies graphics with Oscar Signorini and founded with him D'Ars, the oldest Italian contemporary art magazine that accompanied the evolution of art in the 60s-70s, the same ones where his talent explodes. It starts from the lesson spatialist Of Lucio Fontanawho with his revolutionary gesture of cutting and piercing the canvas makes the transition from a two-dimensional to a multi-dimensional painting, a painting capable of uniting space and time. Nicolotti's creations are born from the cancellation of every superfluous and marginal message. Not just cuts, holes, tears, but real structures. Precise slits, refined and geometric cuts that transform at the observer's gaze. Now they are windows, now doors, now air vents. The artist goes beyond spatialism by entering a defined current Rigorism which unites it to Fontana but also to Agostino Bonalumi, Turi Simeti, Enrico Castellani. The only woman among illustrious masters brings out from her works a refined sensitivity, an elegant idea of form that bends and is shaped in her expert hands. Pure, precise, simple and rigorous work. But not rigid, because the artist's particular sensitivity emerges. Multiple layers of canvas overlap giving a three-dimensional effect, shapes and colors underlie these layers, making them visual objects capable of offering optical and chromatic illusions to the observer. We move in front of his works as we do in an architectural work, discovering a new vision at every step. His cuts are windows into new worlds.