Delfina Camurati Biography
Delfina Camurati was born in Biella in 1942 and currently lives and works in Turin. She is an artist of European fame, especially appreciated in the United States and Belgium. During the seventies, she dedicated herself to conceptual and minimalist art, demonstrating a strong attention to the dialogue between materiality and lightness. In the 1980s, however, she focused on the theme of dialogue between reality and fiction. Delfina Camurati has used several artistic media in her career, including etchings, aquatints, painting, sculpture, drawing and photography. One of the recurring symbols in his works is the pendulum, used to represent the central fire on which everything depends. His artistic career is characterized by several operational cycles, including "The Pillars of the Temple", "The Walls", "The Blades" and "The Water". During the "The Pillars of the Temple" cycle of the 1980s, Camurati chose blue as the color of the absolute and painted his canvases with this color, often marked by a red stripe. During the "The Walls" cycle, he created works that represent the cracks and fissures that appear on a load-bearing structure such as a wall. This theme is developed further in the "The Blades" series, in which wooden sculptures are created. The most recent cycle of Camurati's work is "L'acqua", begun in 1996. Here, the artist explores the primordial element of water, representing its beauty and vitality through crystallized cold and warm colors, enamels, glues and paints. Delfina Camurati's art is considered lively and constantly evolving, poised between past and present, between organicity and inorganicity, traffic and nature. His works are often interpreted as initiations towards a spiritual path, which leads to mysterious and still unknown worlds.
