About EVE Art Project
Biography
A. (Tuscany, 1982) is a graphic and web designer, painter, and illustrator.
She graduated in Cinema, Music, and Theatre, specialising in cinema and electronic image, from the University of Pisa.
After working in television, she decided to return to school and earned a diploma in digital graphic arts.
For over ten years, she has worked as a graphic and web designer for fashion publishers, educational institutions, and online betting companies, both nationally and internationally.
For over five years, she has been experimenting primarily with acrylic painting as a self-taught artist, under the pseudonym EVE.
She currently lives and works in Bologna.
Follow the Eve Art Project on Instagram for a glimpse into the artistic evolution and creative process (@eveartproject).
Statement
Through figurative and abstract styles, she continually explores and develops a “poetics of hybridisation” integrated with a “poetics of the whole,” exalting emotions and states of mind influenced by personal events and the contemporary era. She paints interior journeys and the desire for total inclusiveness that brings balance to existence, entangling everything and everyone.
Spontaneity is at the heart of her practice, understood as a tool for embracing imperfection and bringing out the authenticity of the work’s symbolic and conceptual message.
Her creations are distinguished by a surreal and chaotic atmosphere, enlivened by vibrant and fluorescent colours, and, on many occasions, by a final surface that deliberately alters them, suggesting dust, flashes, or visual disturbances such as “floaters.”
The process
I choose to paint in abstract mode when I am driven by an emotion, a sense of urgency, and a fierce desire for freedom, which leads me to the chaos that welcomes and listens to me for who I am.
When figurative art beckons, I don’t always think and plan what I aim to portray. Instead, I begin to draw or paint, allowing the images to reveal themselves on the canvas as I explore how to continue and how to compose the scene.
Only at the end do I seek to interpret the meaning of what has emerged. I find pleasure in this, despite it seeming contradictory and despite the frustration of explaining images that spring from the mind and seem to lack apparent meaning. In the quest to decipher the painting’s message, I embark on a journey of self-discovery, revealing my inner world.
