Ersilia Leonini Painter Italy 1955

Ersilia Leonini was born in Florence on May 22nd (1955) where she lives and works. Her artistic training began at the former Istituto Statale d'Arte Duccio di Buoninsegna in Siena where she graduated in painting.
At the same time, he devoted himself to the study of photography at the Centro studi Tecnico-Cinematografici in Florence, becoming a professional photographer. He then deepened his study of art history at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy at the University of Siena. He also studied fashion design at the Centro Diffusione Moda in Turin. Later, in 2003, he attended the nude school “Laborarte” in Florence.
She began her artistic career at a very young age, in 1977, when she developed with the group “Iperfantastico” a genre of painting that aimed to distance itself from the hyperrealism that was prevalent at the time. It was during these years that, in addition to obtaining her first personal exhibition in Siena, she distinguished herself in 1979 by winning 2nd place in the Rana D'oro award with a painting of the Iperfantastico genre. She also kept alive her interest in black and white photography with which, she says, “she freezes in the portrait that something fleeting that is behind a face”; she achieved outstanding results by developing and printing her shots in her own photographic laboratory. In 1974 she won first prize in a national competition organized by the trade magazine “Fotografare”.
Too many words are always spent to explain a work of art but words are often reductive and there is a limit beyond which only the image arrives. It is simply another dimension
A multifaceted artist, always striving for experimentation and innovation, she is fascinated by the world of masks and, since 1982, she has dedicated herself professionally to the creation of artistic papier-mâché masks, opening the “Magamarindo” laboratory in Siena, stimulated by the idea of ​​“obtaining from a material like paper, objects capable of communicating emotions”. The poetry and mastery with which she models these works earn her stable collaborations with Venetian workshops for the creation of costumes for the traditional carnival.
I do not represent new things, I would only like to represent them with novelty by taking less traveled, more uncomfortable roads. The search is endless.

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