Biography

Silvia Codignola is a visual artist who works mostly with traditional media - oil paint and egg tempera, watercolors, plaster, and clay. For several years she has taught at Rome's Istituto Europeo di Design. Since 1996 she has displayed her works in private galleries and museums, such as Rome's Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna (2004) and Padiglione Italia of Venice's Biennale (2011). Silvia has produced works on commission, both private and public. Among the latter, to be noted are Rome's piazza San Cosimato's mosaic fountain, three large paintings for Il Tempo, Rome's daily newspaper, and art works for Italian singer Francesco De Gregori and international film director Paolo Sorrentino. In 2017 she displayed Autobiografia della Madre, a large personal exhibition at Rome's Museo Bilotti. In 2024 she held Paesaggio Primo, a solo show at Maja Arte Contemporanea in Roma.

Project Summary

Silvia Codignola's project takes inspiration from a repertory of objects, spatial configurations, and symbolic elements present in paintings of the late Gothic period and the early Renaissance in Italy. She wants to reuse them in a poetic transposition. Her research begins at Villa I Tatti in 2022 with the photographs of the art pieces extant in the books of Berenson’s Library and develops through overlaps and modifications made by graphic intervention and collages.