Carolina Mazzolari - Seeing Red London Saturday, March 16, 2024 | Phillips

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    Carolina Mazzolari

    • 1981

    Carolina Mazzolari's artistic practice spans various mediums, including textile manipulation, printing, painting, photography, video, and performance. Her creative process involves exploring symbols, techniques, and forms, leaving visible traces of her exploration. Mazzolari draws inspiration from psychoanalysis, intuition, cognition, human behaviour, and social development. In her ongoing series "Emotional Fields," initially presented as a solo exhibition at the Tristan Hoare Gallery in September 2019, Mazzolari captures the materialization of elusive states. These ideas take form in hand-embroidered, painted maps, characterized by distinctive silver-grey stitchwork that interacts with light, creating shifting depths and luminous illusions. Carolina collaborates with 'Fine Cell Work,' a UK-based registered charity that employs and rehabilitates long-sentenced inmates through embroidery, to create the largest hand-sewn works. Each map exudes an intimate quality, as the artist has spent countless hours physically interacting with the fabrics. The resulting maps resemble mandalas, conveying love, hesitation, awe, and struggle through a personal language, alluding to deeper human motifs. Carolina's works, both video and textiles, are part of the permanent collection at MONA Museum in Tasmania, Australia, and have been featured in significant exhibitions. Mazzolari currently works and resides in London. She hold a BA in Textile Design from Chelsea College of Art, London and a BA Fashion Design / N.A.B.A from Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan.

     
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signed and dated 'Carolina Mazzolari 2024' on the reverse
jacquard and hand stitched cotton
60 x 50 x 5 cm (23 5/8 x 19 5/8 x 1 7/8 in.)
Executed in 2024.

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Seeing Red