Reviews

Wonderful works. The form that explodes within the matter—METÀ-FORMISMO. But this is just one of the many ways Cristiana expresses herself: through her ‘textured’ canvases, her photographs, her lightness, and her ability to give and show affection. This is a wonderful piece, but just one part of the much larger and more colorful puzzle of her being.

Rosita Ines Malerba

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Tactility is the founding trait of the artist, skilled in the "expression" of landscapes intentionally unidentifiable because sublimated by refined colors that transcend the figuration. They are glimpses of nature, preserved over time and art in all the details, interpreted then with stylistic improvements, distant from the conventionality of the landscape tradition. Thus we come to visual horizons that are worthy of color and matter, undisputed signs of the contemporary soul.

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Giulia Sillato

Cristiana Grandolfo plays with the colours on the canvas like a modern alchemist who investigate, inexhaustible, matter, nature and its limitations, the exploration metaphor for life and its infinite forms and possibilities of man by man. The work of Cristiana Grandolfo appears in fact characterized by a brave and unexpected colour combinations, from an energy swirl and quivering of lines and forms that are overlapping and blending with no apparent contiguity, but with the date of the natural harmony of chance and chaos , so that the viewer who is watching his pictures seem at times to be in the centre of a whirlwind of emotions, sensations, colours and sudden mutations that leave no respite. In fact, that of Cristiana Grandolfo, painting of emotions, of apparitions, epiphanies of tonal and colour, but also of memories, ancestral memories of places that we do not know if we have known, or only dreamed. That painted by Cristiana Grandolfo then, is the truth of a non-landscape, a landscape of colour and emotion, with uncertain boundaries and mysterious, an artificial paradise born of a mysterious crossover game of shapes and colours, melodic and strident, dissonant and harmonious at the same time. Are therefore landscapes, yes, but landscapes transfigured and often metaphorical, those of Cristiana Grandolfo: made of an organic material and colorful, always moving, fluid, which discards the side, which tells mysterious stories and not always easy to understand, because it told visually for scraps, dissonances, arrhythmias, for associations of forms and colours, as small and unexpected alchemy and pyrotechnic exercises. With his painting, Cristiana Grandolfo seems to seek, albeit bumpy roads and anything but conventional, to grasp the sense of reality that lies beneath and beyond reality itself, the mixing of organic matter, immaterial, which despite everything is underground composed of the phenomenal world. 

Vittorio Sgarbi

Although an intense relationship is possible with some abstract expressiveness, yet its three-dimensional representations want to interpret a form of essentiality produced with diversified materials. Starting from painting, she finally arrives at the representation of the form in which the spatial insertion is of fundamental importance. The lines of his plastic research are perfect and aesthetically assume the connotation of a metaphysical approach. Even the shades of the painting are represented in these forms and are perceived in the spatial vision.

Mario Guderzo

The mixture of graphic and pictorial skills has produced surprising results, as in these two published works, both called "Snapshots from the Imaginary", and among them, only diversified by a serial number, 3 and 15. The water barrier melts into thousand streams, bright and colourful, which reveal the shapes of marine animals in movement through the meshes of a net. Suggestive approach to the story that translates into imaginative descriptions, realities recreated with the explosive force of imagination. The limit between form and non-form is very subtle also because colour governs and administers the formal effects of the composition by coordinating them spontaneously to the point of generating a metaformal whole.

Giulia Sillato

In front of the work "Ecosistemamore" by Cristiana Grandolfo, in a few seconds, the viewer is submerged in the post-catastrophic punk atmosphere, in the fairy-tale atmosphere of Oz, in an anamnesis of the Metal period. Far from being a defect, this ambiguity is the creative essence of the work. The reference perspective is the "today" that becomes that remote future already mentioned in our minds and in our memories, even before then in our hopes. The vision, no longer frightens us, becomes usual, we absorb it without further mediation. Now the artist's work appears to us more accessible and exudes genuine freshness, but also amazement and pacification. The world is that of Dorith lent to the emblem of the expectations of a flattened civilization. The man and the woman are absent, the two copulants replace them, ungraceful but composed. The return is to nature, recreated with the elements of recovery and vintage. The author puts us in doubt in this equally rural and urban work: what  if the future was so present that it had already passed; if we could forget all technology and replace it with allegories, would the emerald city not be nearer? ".

Franco L. Fabbri

When living is continuous creation, freedom. Astonishment. These are places difficult to remember, but where we convulsively try to return for the rest of our existence, without understanding that it is only a tormenting desire of "nostos", of "return". To a place and a condition. These snapshots made of those places are not a report from the imaginary as there may be others: they are rather a materialization. To that imaginary of origin and archetype where all the tormented visions of the relationship between the life and our time overlap. But a grown man is led to believe them in their "imaginary" faces; patrimonies of figures that, more often than not, like blinded moths, only in their intentions and not in their direction, orient themselves towards an ancient light. The images of Cristiana Grandolfo, who have the gift of opening up to light as well as images, are an opportunity; a possibility, offered to the beholder, to "enter" and return to those places where after a while they will discover their belonging to themselves, in whole or at least in part. In these paintings, the colour, with its pure ancestral stimulus, becomes a situation and the representation is nothing but a pure and fresh ludic excuse for the colours to swarm in space like children too long kept in a classroom. Still, marvel to be there. The joy of being there. Do we really have to plough Plato and remember that we are men because we know how to amaze us? Only the "wonder of the world" has made us different from other living beings and only the "wonder of the world" (the amazement of living) can make us remain human.

Cosma Cafueri

[...]"Thank you for your very original and eloquent gift. The chosen metaphor to express synthetically concepts and suggestions seemed to me extraordinarily effective"[...]

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Luciano Canfora