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Giulia Leonelli
Artist - PhD degree in Visual Arts and Printmaking Instructor - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Giulia Leonelli is a French/Italian artist who holds a doctorate degree in Visual Arts from University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, where she teaches as a printmaking instructor.
After a BFA in Fine Arts at Rome University of Fine Arts, she enrolled at Sorbonne University in Paris in 2009.
In 2012, she was chosen as a recipient for the French/American “Young Talents” award, for which she was selected to attend the MFA Studio Art Program at New York University.
Her work is oriented toward a pictorial approach of printmaking, led by a musical aspiration and a poetic intent.
Her doctoral thesis Entendre le pictural discusses the temporal understanding of an artwork by experiencing its unfolding as space and time, and the implications of Rhythm and Sensation as philosophical attributes of art.
Her work has been shown in several exhibitions in Italy, France, Spain, Denmark, UK and the United States.
Componer con la Vida (NAT Art Residence - The Instant of the Creation - 06/2023)
Nature awakes
a sense of awareness
toward life,
toward aliveness,
being light as well as shadow.
Toward time itself
that is everywhere
that is nowhere to be seen.
Nature directs us
to "compose with"(*) life
in order to embrace
all sort of loss
all sort of fear
we have to get through.
In order to receive
all the joy,
all the beauty
we are able to disclose
and give back.
Composing with my body
as a vehicle
I've tried to flow with the river
up to the tips of my fingers.
I had to walk every single day
to the point of the cliff
just to encounter my fear
out of desire.
And I gave back all of this
to the paper,
where my journey on Earth
finds its best achievement.
Now I know
that even the stones can dance.
(*) From the French expression "composer avec": Face / deal with
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Componer con la Vida
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Invocación de la vida (Invocation of life)
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Invocation of Life
(Original text in Spanish)
Invocation of life
leads to the other necessity
where time rests
in the high depth
of an inverted sky.
A bright night river
that flows
in the shadow of the day.
The way of forever
is the first hour of infinity
that here begins.
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