DANIELA BIGAGLI
At the heart of Daniela Bigagli’s work is the concept of "reclamation", salvaging materials otherwise destined to be thrown away and breathing life back into them, transforming them into something else entirely. Colours and matter blend together to portray a fixed eternal state of things, things that are continuously changing inside and outside of the individual’s perspective. Daniela Bigagli reminds us that nothing is stable and definitive; we too change constantly, displaying how even a waste object can be ennobled once it becomes part of a piece of artwork. Leading on from this thought process, the artist then uses colour as a way of symbolizing certain themes on the canvas; the unceasing flow of water, the contrasting or harmonizing forces that govern her inner world, be it the instinct that drives action or the contemplation that induces patience. In other words, everything and its opposite, within a painting that welcomes the breath of life, all that we are, all that we would like to be and become, is carried along upon the unstoppable current of time. And yet, the artist goes even further, depicting death as a passage and a process of regeneration that is to be celebrated. We can see this, most notably, in the cycle of works which feature the unmissable image of a skull, flanked by flowers; a symbol of life that is reborn at the end of every step in our evolutionary process.
[Daniela Pronestì]