For over ten years I have been collaborating as an art model seeking photographers and painters. Fundamental to my career and training were the human and artistic encounter Ettore Comi, photographer and director who back in 2003, was the first to teach me how to pose with humility and grace. Following was visual artist and at the time also art teacher Beatrice Pasquali, with whom I collaborated as a model between Verona and Valpolicella in a hot summer of 2015. And then again the photographers Irene Pepe, Alessandro Favaloro, Fabri Ca who captured Antigone with truth and delicacy.
Nino Crociani Studio
“The meeting with Nino Crociani, painter and engraver, was one of the most significant in my life. I was his model in the last years of his life. The poses with him, which resulted in a series of drawings and engravings, were always an opportunity to keep open a dialogue about the artistic and social reality of the present and the past. He was tense in the continuous search for a sign that was always more precise, and as is often the case when I pose, he captured many of my souls, more than he could realize.”
Active collaboration from 2014 to 2016 – Art intervention at the Francesco Messina Museum Studio on the occasion of the exhibition Paper and Iron, Milan 2016.
The Figural Observatory
“Every time during the poses something miraculous happens: the rough wooden table, the closeness of the designers, the mirrors, the lights. Here I learned presence, entering each time into a performative flow almost a meditation, falling into the silence of self to become an instrument of another communication, later returned in the drawings of the participants.”
Since the summer of 2014 I have been collaborating permanently with L’ Osservatorio Figurale, an international center for the study of the figure from life founded by Enrico Lui and led now by Anna Lui. A historical place of constant memory and happening where Enrico’s artistic legacy is light and guidance today even for those who did not know him.
Liana Ghukasyan
“Working with Liana Ghukasyan, a painter from Armenia, was an opportunity for me to give the poses a more theatrical and scenic dimension through the skillful proposal of thematic cues borrowed from the literary, photographic and musical scene. Giving life to a relationship between designers and model each time original and iridescent.”
Active collaboration from 2017 to 2019 in the drawing course The Scent of the Nude and in experimental workshops in collaboration with photographer Giulia Bersani.
