Carmen Berrini
On another scale
Tambor del Llano presents "A otra escala" by Carmen Berrini, an Italian artist and architect based in Asturias. It is a selection of works that reflects her creative process, expressed through her experimentation in the field of engraving, with occasional incursions into ceramics and three-dimensional textiles.
Prints, drawings, textiles and ceramics
Carmen Berrini is an artist from the north of Italy based in Asturias. In Tambor del Llano she presents an exhibition entitled "A otra escala" (On another scale) with graphic work, drawings, ceramics and textiles. Nature and its most microscopic parts inspire and shape the theme of these artistic works.
His artistic references are very diverse: from Klee or Miró to Micheaux or Twombly, but also the textile works of Sati Zech, Joana Vasconcelos or Emily Barletta, to name but a few".
As Santiago Martínez suggests (La Escena 29/03/2019) "these are very eclectic sources that, from their diversity, enrich a work that seems to debate between formal rigour, spontaneity and expressiveness ... revealing a certain indocility that, in his work, is not at odds with the search for beauty".
The exhibition
"Whatever technique I choose in my artistic production, the impulse generally comes from the most hidden part of nature, with a special predilection for the microscopic scale, which fascinates me both as a formal organisation and as a metaphor for what is not obvious. In no case is it a matter of reproducing forms or of a scientific study, but of the "echo" of the surprise and wonder of discovery.
I have been drawing for as long as I can remember. It helps me to understand, to visualise, what words often distort. The line as an automatic writing. Bridging rationalisation to connect with a more primary, more playful, less domesticated being.
My approach to textiles is more conceptual, with the discovery of several artists who reclaim the language and technique to which women have been relegated for centuries, freeing them from their subordination to utilitarian needs.
There is something very physical in the way I approach my works, both in printmaking, with the drypoint technique, and in textile work, with the use of very tight stitches to achieve the desired rigidity. But what dominates any process is the need to experiment, to investigate and explore the limits of each technique, to combine the immediacy of the drawn stroke with the introspection and self-absorption of the materialisation of the work.
Trajectory
He participated with his work in several group exhibitions and a personal exhibition at the Decero Creativo space in Oviedo (2019) and in the three editions of Alma Gráfica to date, obtaining one of the grants offered by the CIEC Foundation.
The galleries Arancha Osoro and Decero Creativo and the now defunct Centro de Estampación artística Litografía Viña counted on his work for the Noches Blancas in Oviedo and Gijón and for the Art Fair of the Principality of Asturia.
Exhibitions:
Municipal Foundation of Culture and Education. Popular University of Gijón
2011 / 2019 End-of-course group exhibitions of the students of the printmaking workshops of the Universidad Popular de Gijón:
2011 De Tomo y Lomo. Artist's books.
Borrón Hall - Oviedo
2018 / 2019 End-of-year group exhibitions by the students of the Oviedo City Council ceramics workshops.
Artistic Printing Centre Lithography Viña - Gijón
2013 Las paredes hablan - in the framework of the Festival Arco Atlántico - Centro Cultural Antiguo Instituto - Gijón
2014 Sinergia : 1st Art Edition Exhibition in the centre Litografía Viña. Group exhibition as part of the Miradas de Mujeres Festival - Group exhibition.
2014 Contemporary Art Fair of the Principality of Asturias - Oviedo
2014 White Night - Textile installation
Gallery Arancha Osoro - Oviedo
2014 Corazonada - A new heartbeat of the exhibition Gráfica. Group exhibition organised by the Centro de Estampación Artística Litografía Viña de Gijón.
2014 The senses and art - Truth and lies of the five senses White Night
2016 Exhibition of the students of Decero Creativo.
Decero Creativo - Oviedo
2017 A sótano abierto - Exquisite Corpse - White Night
2017 Contemporary Art Fair of the Principality of Asturias - Oviedo
2019 Drawing online - Solo exhibition of printmaking and textiles
Alma Gráfica - Graphic Art Fair - Oviedo
2017, 2018 and 2019 Participates with its own stand in the first three editions of Alma Gráfica, winning in 2017, one of the grants awarded by the CIEC Foundation International Centre for Contemporary Printmaking.