Silvia Idili - In Meditation

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.

This work is part of the genre scenes Silvia Idili reworks in her surreal and symbolist aesthetic of anxiety and mystery. What is depicted is entirely plausible and part of a reality of simple gestures, small familiar scenes. But Silvia Idili transfers everything into her surreal dimension of enigma, starting from the very space she envisions. Nature practically disappears, giving way to a dark, essential, and desolate setting, constructed in a duotone of green and black. Silvia Idili's characters move within this undefined space, and as they perform their seemingly simple gestures, they are suddenly struck by some disturbing element. These elements often identify with two recurring themes in Silvia Idili's work: the heavy, decadent drapery intended to conceal some truth that must remain unspoken, or the geometric solid, metaphysical and alienating, mysterious in its very being. In this painting, however, existential unease is suggested by the subject itself. What appears to be an innocent game between friends transforms into a mysterious, esoteric ritual. The girls, gathered in a tight circle, do not show their faces; the sense of incommunicability and mystery is complete. Formally, Silvia Idili's works 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 clothes, charmingly antiquated, form compact chromatic zones that give rise to studied color harmonies. In this context, Silvia Idili's brushstrokes cannot help but be homogeneous, even if rich in 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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