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Name : Emanuela Galli Ligal Country of birth : Italia  City of residence : Number of Exposed Works : 3 Votes : 133 Vote for this artist |
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Emanuela Ligal known as "Ligal" in the artwork lives in Padova, the city where she was born in 1958, but in the past she has lived in Tuscany, London and, extremely important for her artistic and personal development, in the Tosho-ji in Kyoto, a Japanese Buddhist temple, where she discovered and embraced the Zen philosophy.
She started drawing at the age of seventeen. In 1984, the entry in the Dance Room of Matisse at the Metropolitan Museum marked another fundamental moment in her artistic life, a "huge revelation", as she reports. She then decided to study art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. In 1996 she finally started to paint on canvass and from that day she has never stopped. She has exhibited around Italy, and in 2000 she held an important personal exhibition in New York City. The intensity in which she has always lived her life is deeply reflected in her artworks, where the creative surge born from the nucleus of all her past experiences. Ligal, with her work, explores the eternal and human dualism between mask and face, truth and pretence, topicality and virtuality, dream and reality that result in a mystery and alchemic world, an attractive universe of feelings Emanuela Ligal Galli nació en 1958 en Padua, Italia, donde vive y trabaja. Pinta y dibuja desde 1977. Vivió en Londres y en Toscana. Ha sido fundamental para su crecimiento personal y artístico la experiencia que duró un año, en el monasterio budista oriental Tosho-ji en Tokio, donde conoció la cultura de Zen.
En el año 2000 hace su primera exposición individual importante en Nueva York.
Emanuela ha vivido siempre de una manera profunda y tal intensidad se refleja con fuerza y brillantez en sus pinturas donde el ajuste creativo aflora de la base de todas sus experiencias previas. En la banalidad evidente de la existencia, ve la máscara que ella y otras personas utilizan en el ámbito diario.
La ironía, originalidad, son marcadas por las formas en negrilla y los colores brillantes, usados siempre con mucha habilidad. Se siente bien en la naturaleza, pero viviendo en una sociedad compleja, decidió ser artista.
Para sus trabajos utiliza el acrílico, los fragmentos de colores brillantes, en tonos irónicos y felices, componen estas caras. Investiga, a partir de una observación y un análisis acerca de la condición del hombre en la sociedad moderna, el dualismo eterno y humano entre la máscara y la cara, verdad, sueño y realidad. La cara humana tiende a perder las características personales para transformarse y combinarse en una dimensión fantástica.
Tarde o temprano, todos descubrimos dentro de nosotros mismos la capacidad que tenemos para auto-regenerarnos, sin buscar fuentes externas, simplemente buscando en nosotros mismos las energías para hacerlo.
Es como quitarnos una máscara y reconstruirnos en una nueva persona que se adapte mejor a las nuevas circunstancias que tenemos que hacer frente.
Es un circuito cerrado, en el cual la parte malvada y la energía negativa se cambian y se transforman en algo nuevo, peculiar y personal.
Emanuela Ligal
born and work in Padua (Italy) but she has sojourned in Tuscany, in London and fundamental for her personal and artistic growth has been the experience lasted one year, at the oriental Buddhist monastery Tosho-ji in Tokyo, were she has known the Zen culture.
In 2000 she has make an important personal exhibition in New York.
Emanuela Ligal has always lived in a deep manner and such intensity is reflected with strength and brilliance also in her paintings where the creative fit born from the core of all her past experiences.
The artist realizes works in acrylic in which the human visage became mask is the main subject.
Fragments of bright colours, in ironical and joyous tones, compose these faces.
She put in scene how in reality everyone always appear in a different way from what he truly is, also in the daily environment of our life.
Ligal investigate, starting from an alert observation and analysis of the man condition in the modern society, the eternal and human dualism between mask and face, truth and pretence, dream and reality.
The result is the awareness of how the man is forced to assume a dress that stifles his real being.
The authoress, availing herself of these figures, she mean to disclose the authentic identity which hide itself behind the human appearances and lay them bare in them pathetic ridiculousness but also in all them human weakness.
The colours, often of bright contrasting tonalities, they are spread by flats background paintings that create figures which remain in the middle between a human visage and its abstraction, the fantasy and the reality.
The human face tends to lose the realistic personal characteristics to transform itself and to merge in a fantastic dimension.
Observing Emanuela Ligal paintings it rise an association rather immediate with one of the literature big master, Luigi Pirandello.
Also if through a kind of investigation more joyful than that of the Italian writer, Ligal makes a lucid pitiless unmasking of the relativity of the human condition rich of appearances and split personality, leading us in a mysterious and alchemic world of feelings, an attractive universe that induce the Italian authoress to probe many countenances and aspects.
By Paola Trevisan
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| PHOTOGRAPH | NAME | STYLE | TECHNIQUE | VOTES |
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Self regeneration | Abstract | Acrylic | 90 |
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art critic | Abstract | Acrylic | 80 |
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Beautiful woman | Abstract | Acrylic | 73 |
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Name: bruno E-mail: gicominibruno@tiscali.it Date: 2007-08-17 Hi Emanuela, I love the colourful painting of yours. Your paintings send a message of joyful, cheerful and bright. It inspired me a lot in terms of bold colour used. |
