Silvia Idili - In Absolute Harmony

Surrealist aesthetics emerged around the 1920s and encompassed all fields of artistic research. Specifically, in the visual arts, Surrealism sought to explore the human subconscious and translate it into artwork through a mechanical writing process based on dream analysis. Consequently, Surrealist artworks propose the representation of a dreamlike dimension, completely dissociated from reality. However, this representation often relies on a hyperrealistic formal rendering, precisely to paradoxically accentuate the illusory and ambiguous nature of the surreal dimension. Given the type of subjects she proposes, artist Silvia Idili can also be classified as a Surrealist aesthetic, but compared to the historical avant-garde, her work is entirely original, blending Symbolism and Metaphysics. The Sardinian-born painter develops this particular poetics of mystery and anxiety in two main types of subject matter. Choral scenes of everyday and family nature and portraits, mainly of women.

Silvia Idili's interest and her mysterious manipulations of reality sometimes extend to the animal world. Her favorite subjects are deer captured in the naturalness of their existence. But even in this case, the background is always the same, undefined and still, created by the two-tone black and green, and the scene is permeated by the usual disturbing element that completely changes the representation. In the present work, the sense of alienation is created by the geometric-metaphysical element, and thus the mere presence of the two animals gives rise to a complex prismatic solid (also reminiscent of certain works by Salvador Dalí). From a formal standpoint, these works by Silvia Idili exhibit a stylistic coherence, evident in a simplicity that, in the two-dimensional space, delineates the subjects with few details, making them even more enigmatic. Their fascinatingly antiquated clothing forms compact chromatic zones that create carefully studied color harmonies. In this context, Silvia Idili's brushstroke cannot help but be homogeneous, even if full of existential vibrations.

Silvia Idili was born in Cagliari in 1982. She graduated from the Cagliari State Art School in 1999-2000 and lives and works in Milan. Silvia Idili works in painting and illustration. She approached oil painting almost by chance and has continued to use it ever since. Her dreamlike visions take shape within complex interior landscapes, composed of flat backgrounds and a few enigmatic elements that compel the viewer's gaze to linger on. Long established in the art world, Silvia Idili has exhibited her work in numerous shows both in Italy and abroad.

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