Leonilde Carabba - The Guardians of the Threshold

Much of the artist LeoNilde Carabba's work is connected to the Informal and Abstract Expressionist currents that have swept through Western contemporary art since the 1950s. The devastation of World War II left a profound mark on Western civilization, which in the visual arts also resulted in an inability to communicate. For some artists, this challenge resulted in a total rejection of any visual language, resulting in the birth of Informal Art. The various Informal currents are certainly connected to American Abstract Expressionism, especially in their gestural component, but they go further in their rejection of any figurative element. Their exploration focuses instead on the material with which they compose their works. LeoNilde Carabba's Informal aesthetic takes its cue from the path indicated by Lucio Fontana's Spatialism, embarking on her own personal journey that will lead her to develop a poetics where the expression of forces and energies emanating from the work takes on a decidedly esoteric connotation. Those detected by LeoNilde Carabba are forces that regulate the destinies of humanity, through which she investigates, in her works, all the values ​​of existence itself.

The complex spatialist and esoteric aesthetic developed by artist LeoNilde Carabba also finds a precise correspondence in the complexity of her stylistic language. The artist's approach is informal, yet nourished by a variety of elements and techniques. The space created by LeoNilde Carabba is extremely alive and dynamic, made of iridescent impastos of color and matter. In this space, simultaneously biological and cosmic, the painter reveals the movements of elemental energies and forces that govern the destinies of existence itself. She does so with an extremely vibrant gesture and the use of diverse materials, including precious ones, which, by revealing fields of force, highlight the emanating energies, transferring them directly into the real dimension of the viewer, in a poetics that draws on spatialist currents. But the distinctiveness of LeoNilde Carabba's artistic practice lies in the more specifically esoteric interpretation these energies take on, also indicated by the spiritualist hermeticism that characterizes the titles of her works.

LeoNilde Carabba, born in Monza in 1938 and currently residing in Milan, likes to define herself as "a painter and a traveler who loves to explore territories and cross borders". In 1961 LeoNilde held her first solo exhibitions. The following years saw her increasingly involved in the art world, where she received the support and formative influence of artists such as Lucio Fontana, Hsiao Chin, Roberto Crippa, Enrico Baj, Turcato, Tancredi, Jean Fautrier, Piero Manzoni, Christo and Carla Accardi. In 1966 she began experiments on the refraction of light, achieving, through the use of glass microspheres, a surface with a light intensity that varied according to the viewer's angle of vision without the need for mechanical means. If Lucio Fontana had previously presented her own exhibition (1964), in 1969 she exhibited with him and Bruno Munari in "Il Segno e l'Oggetto" at the Galleria Cadario in Caravate. In 1975, she co-founded the Women's Bookshop in Milan. In 1976, she founded the Beato Angelico Cooperative with Carla Accardi, Nedda Guidi, Eva Menzio, Suzane Santoro, Silvia Truppi, and others. She currently works in both Italy and Germany.

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