“The Continuity in the New” by Federico Sardella, 2017
On the occasion of this second exhibition of Antonella Zazzera’s works in the space of Giuliano Papalini and Nunzia Palma, the artist presents eight sculptures realized in the course of this year, specifically conceived. As always is done, these works are designed according to the spaces in which they will be shown, calibrating both the […]
“Antonella Zazzera. A conversation” by Ada Masoero, Antonella Zazzera, 2016
Ada Masoero: We are presenting the recent results of your work in this exhibition but I believe that it is important to understand the stages through which you came to arrive at these results, starting from your years in the Fine Arts Academy “Pietro Vannucci” in Perugia. What was the “spark” that set off your […]
“Antonella Zazzera. A Divisionist sculptor” by Ada Masoero, 2016
Antonella Zazzera is an artist who is liked by artists. A not insignificant fact. In fact, it is well known that it is often the artists – well before and more sharply than the critics – who recognise the value of their fellows’ work: it happened with Cézanne and van Gogh, who were ignored by […]
“Sculpture’s possible nomadism” by Marco Meneguzzo, 2015
In about February some years ago, in Saint Petersburg on the Baltic Sea, I happened to see those wavelets that ought to have “died” on the beach but, instead, were perfectly still a short distance away from dry land, crystallised in their literal “waving”: they had been frozen by the cold. Thinking now about the […]
“Antonella Zazzera. Rhythm | Sign | Light” by Federico Sardella, 2015
In September of last year, invited by Arnaldo Pomodoro, Antonella Zazzera exhibited Armonico CLXVII at the collective exhibition Highly Recommended: Emerging Sculptors at the Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan (USA). The Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park is one of the most important botanical gardens in the world, with a […]
“A weaving of Textures and Structures” by Nicola Carrino, 2014
It was the morning of the first of September. Antonella Zazzera called me. It had been a while since we last spoke, but I knew about her exhibitions in Germany and her latest one in Paris. I knew about her show in Todi, which is being prepared, for which she asked me to write a […]
“Nests” by Melina Mulas, 2014
These photos illustrate an entire day with Antonella Zazzera. Her studio/home and its carefully selected objects. The deep relationship and tacit agreement with her grandfather, who prepares the frames and watches her work, with the same rigor and peace that I have seen in some Tibetan monasteries. They show the porch while she weaves her […]
“Light Weaving” by Frédéric Jaeger, 2014
Umbria is, first, a land. A land of men and a land of saints. Which feeds the belly, Which nourishes the spirit. A land of history. A motherland, also. Protective hills opening on infinity. A land of contrasts, a land of shadows and of light. Between telluric forces and celestial energy. At the crossroads of […]
“Antonella Zazzera. The Origins of Thinking” by Federico Sardella, 2014
Antonella Zazzera was born in Todi. She works in the big house she grew up in. She lives with Marco, near her parents and grandfather. Her studies inflated year after year, along with her personal growth, and the manner and evolution of her work. Studies and life intertwine, overlap, and the storehouse that once held […]
“The space and time of Antonella Zazzera” by Giuseppe Appella, 2012
She looks in front of her for that which she left behind. Giorgio Caproni Two years ago, on the occasion of a personal exhibition the familiar Armonici were placed near the Carte-Scultura, Antonella Zazzera declared her tendency to free herself from the slavery of form and technique, or rather, two essential elements: space and time. […]
“Antonella Zazzera” by Lara Conte, 2012
In Antonella Zazzera’s work, it is as if there is not a before and after, or a beginning and an end. Her creativity is situated in a fluid dimension, where the boundaries are evanescent, uncertain and not necessary. Thus the sign – that sign which Antonella herself defines as “Segnotraccia” – meets the copper in […]
“Per Antonella Zazzera” by Antonia Mulas, 2011
For whom the Etruscan girl weaves Who waits Where will she go Ink on copper Near the grandfather that weaves baskets Weaves, not for the kitchen Not for the bed Not even for the tent Searching for a shape Free from use When will the texture be unraveled One night in his hut? I would […]
“Antonella Zazzera’s Sculpture” by Jacopo Ricciardi, 2010
The sculpture is not subjected to its surrounding space, but rather creates it. It creates its own space, and transforms real space into one of its secrets. What Antonella Zazzera does with sculpture is not at all simple or trivial. She brings out the glow that is structured in the most intimate and secret background […]
“Carte Scultura. The moment of free sign. A conversation with Antonella Zazzera” by Federico Sardella, 2010
AZ You see, Federico… how I behave now. For every paper I make, I keep notes, of its characteristics, the day I started working on it, the thickness and colour of the copper wire I use… I make a sketch of the structures and I take a photo. In the specific case of the work […]
“The hands and thoughts of Antonella Zazzera” by Fabrizio D’Amico, 2010
For Antonella Zazzera, light is “the fundamental event within the work”. Light, more than other feature (more than colour, though she now proudly claims to have obtained varied and multiple colours, trough the different timbre of the copper spools she uses; more than matter, which was diaphanous and transparent, has now grow in her hands […]
“Antonella Zazzera. In dialogue with the history of art” by Federico Sardella, 2009
The artist looks ahead. He is naturally projected beyond and the results of his efforts are often out of his time. He is in anticipation in respect to the times: avant-garde. This anticipation, the consciously keeping ahead of the rest of the troop, is none other than the fruit of knowing how to look even […]
“For Antonella Zazzera’ by Enrico Castellani, 2009
…God generates Himself from Himself in Himself, and then once again He generates within Himself. (Meister Eckhart, German Sermons) What does this have to do with anything? Nothing. But it is a beautiful phrase (and a fairly refined reference), almost a metaphor of a certain metaphysical vision of the creative procedure of art. Copper thread, […]
“Fiat lux” by Massimo Mattioli, 2008
Battles. Lines of escape traced by flags, or lances. Static revolutions geared upward, or broken on the ground, in a rhythmic sequence. If we mentally leaf through the photographic album that marks Antonella Zazzera’s creative path, this rhetorical exercise inevitably – and perhaps viciously – positions Zazzera in the line of art history’s path. And […]
“Armoniche tensioni. A conversation with Antonella Zazzera” by Federico Sardella, 2008
Federico Sardella: Your art has developed through various groups of works. Intuition takes on a form but is still not complete: it sparks off a complex itinerary where experiences accumulate and experimentation concerns the natural evolution of an initial hypothesis. From the Madri Matrici to the Frammenti, from the photographic works to the paintings and […]
“Antonella Zazzera: between form and eccentric abstraction” by Fabrizio D’Amico, 2008
In an exhibition dating back to the 1980s, Untitled, re-proposed in the catalogue of the anthological arrangement in 1998 at the Villa delle Rose, in Bologna, Marisa Merz was an important presence. On the viewers’ left, on the ground, next to a box of old cardboard, she placed coils of copper wire. At the foot […]
“Antonella Zazzera. Discreet clamors” by Federico Sardella, 2007
Chatting with Antonella, one hears her repeat that work of art and artist in some way coincide. She finds it stimulating when she notices the same occurrence in other artists that she loves and frequents. And if this principle, in her opinion, is valid for Carmengloria Morales, Giuseppe Spagnulo or Nicola Carrino, it is more […]
“Antonella Zazzera. Armonici” by Federico Sardella, 2007
The copper wire, in different colours and thickness, is the one element, that, combined with light, constitutes the most recent works by Antonella Zazzera: the “Armonici”. Those sculptures, complex ground or wall structures that recently have been also laid down on water, are formed by immeasurable sediments of the most common energy conductor wire. These […]
“Antonella Zazzera. Copper and the goddes Venus” by Viviana Tessitore, 2006
In mythology and alchemy, copper has come to be associated with the goddess Venus. In fact, it is the symbol used by alchemists to represent that copper is the same as that used by astrologers to represent the planet Venus. Moreover, the goddess Venus, born from the sea, moved to the island of Cyprus, an […]
“Antonella Zazzera” by Mauro Salvi, 2006
Art is the search for harmonic values of space, trace and light and all that derives from their combination. Art history studies these combinations in different eras and draws accurate conclusions in relation to the contemporaneity of individual artists. Zazzera’s arrangement displays itself in the search for these three fundamental elements, favoring light and trace, […]
“Antonella Zazzera: the impalpable lightness of being” by Floriano De Santi, 2006
The presence of archetypal figures and primary sources of art, among physical and metaphysical, visible and invisible, seems to characterize Antonella Zazzera’s creative Stimmung. Her “environmental” works are scenic scores on three-dimensional ironic figures, and are unconscious and intuitive exercises of empirical calculation. The execution is not just the tactile translation of conceptual processes, which […]
“Fiat Lux” by Massimo Mattioli, 2005
«Seeing nature through art, no longer art through nature.» In front of Antonella Zazzera’s latest photographs and sculptures, we recall Konrad Fiedler’s words. In the speculation of real natural and human essence, these words draw from the stimulus and substance. These works are even formally ascribed to the lyrical and spiritual abstraction that originated from […]
“Antonella Zazzera” by Lisa Wade, 2005
Antonella Zazzera is an artist in constant evolution, in constant flux – a direct reflection of the harmony of life cycles apparent in nature. She could be called equally an archaeologist as an a artist, tapping back into the strata of her former pictoric style, extracting fragments, and transforming them into her current body of […]
“Electrum” by Bruno Ceccobelli, 2005
Antonella with her reliefs in copper thread, suggests large fields of positive energy. Prodigious sculpture structures in flaming light beams they cloak themselves in woven shimmering threads, left floating in several layers, like waves of a sparkling red sea. Like long amber manes of hair, they warm us between our head and chest. PDF
“Carmengloria Morales meets Antonella Zazzera. Sermugnano and Todi” by Carmengloria Morales, 2005
I will start from the end: I consider Antonella Zazzera a very good artist.I saw her work four years ago and I was struck by the reality of her works. They were earthy paintings realized with glues, tar and chalk, with a strong and contained gesture. “Madri Matrici, works on gauze, where I bring lines […]
“The Sculpture” by Mauro Salvi, 2004
Closed forms, canons, forms that conform to other similar ones. Aggregations of modules that are different in unity but similar in multiplicity. Unicellular beings that unite and multiply. Not enough. Beyond. A sign that is a sign in itself or a sign that narrates, illustrates. From the immensity of the vast (or rather immense?) forms […]
“Antonella Zazzera. Art and research” by Mauro Salvi, 2001
If the visual arts have the aim of materializing the idea that the artist possesses (especially if the artist is very young), this, the period that bridges two centuries, is among the darkest after the Renaissance astronomer Nicolò Copernico’s renowned work “De revolutionibus orbium coelestium.”What is happening to us, indigenous no longer, but citizens of […]