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Gabriella
Benevolenza, a young woman of
Italian-Finnish descent was born in Helsinki,
Finland in July, 1968. She was raised in various
countries finally settling in Alsace (France), where
she lives and paints. She studied “Arts plastique”
from 1992 – 1995. She is now a valued member
of AIDA (Artistes Independent d’Alsace).
Always very “constructed”, her semi-abstract
work is a search for transparancy and colour
balance: light and the variations of adding
different types of material. She uses plaster of
paris, metal pigmented paints, various types of
cloth, emery paper or printed collage material.
In all - freedom
Gabriella Benevolenza always uses collages
and sometimes a square stencil. She gives
rythme to her paintings by using horinzontal
and/or vertical lines. On a symbolised
landscape, a horizontal division may suggest
houses, a small harbor, bottles or a simple forms
and colors harmony, that no title helps the
viewer with orientation.
The artist, herself, often remarks that: “ I may not
see anything”
The most important is not the title, but the
harmony of the complete color palette : from
warm colours to bright orange, smooth and
delicate greys, astonishing beiges that illuminate
a wide space. A red point may bring , in true
freedom, the final touch.
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