Dall'oscurità mi alzo

Lucia Calabrino was born in Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina, there she studied Fine Arts. She has lived in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires for 30 years, where she graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Advertising from the National University of Lomas de Zamora. She has been holding group and individual exhibitions since 1982 in Argentina and abroad. A characteristic of her life as an artist is curiosity. She investigated various experimental techniques: asphalt painting, cyanotype, embroidery on paper, biomaterials, glass, experimental photography techniques, textiles, artist's book, inks and watercolors. Today she relies on all of them, combining them or not, depending on the meaning of the work. She has worked with color for many years, she feels comfortable in it and got good results. Until she decided it was time for new challenges: she decided to work with achromatics (asphalt paint) and approach figuration through the female body. This is how Mirada de Mujer was born, the project she has been working on for 12 years. The essence of the project: through the use of glazes, she seeks to make the feminine being visible. Transparencies have always been protagonists in her work, with all the techniques that have passed through her hands: Investigate transparency and make it visible, show what was and was not seen. Although Mirada de Mujer began as a search for visibility of the feminine being, today she sees that she is talking about her own visibility. The work became autobiographical, that's why the glazes always reappear, no matter what technique she uses, they are the way she discover herself.