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Magic spell

When imagination has undisputed dominion and has the power to translate hidden emotions onto the canvas. Canvas cm. 100 x 50. Mixed technique acrylic, paper tape, polystyrene and resin Year 2020

Paola Arrigoni, Incantesimo
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The real victims

Canvas cm. 50 x 70 Mixed media, spatula acrylic, wire. It is my painting from 2021 and expresses my thoughts on war, on all wars. It is the work that was selected for the Venice ProBiennale 2022 Year 2021

Paola Arrigoni, Le vere vittime
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Legàmi/Legámi

I used 100 hinges, 50 sheets of gold leaf and resin. The hinges to represent the bonds which can be multiple and this is the reason for the use of different colors and various shapes incorporated in the resin tied in an embrace. Many bonds are impossible to explain, they defy all logic and distance without ever breaking. Each bond has its own history and lives in its own light or in the darkest darkness. Every bond is different and unique, some travel invisible paths or live only in the mind. There is a beautiful poem by Jorge Luis Borges that says: You don't really know if life is a journey, if it's a dream, if it's waiting, if it's a plan that unfolds day after day and you don't realize it unless you look ahead. backwards. You don't know if it makes sense. 
In certain moments the meaning doesn't matter.
 Connections count. Jorge Luis Borges Year 2022

Paola Arrigoni, Legami
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Alienation

The hell of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is the one that is already here, the hell that we live in every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to avoid suffering for it. The first is easy for many: accept hell and become part of it to the point of no longer seeing it. The second is risky and requires continuous attention and learning: seeking and knowing how to recognize who and what, in the midst of hell, is not hell, and making it last, and giving it space. (Italo Calvino, in Invisible Cities) In this painting I used staplers, coffee beans, polystyrene, resin, acrylic paints, paste and much more...

Paola Arrigoni, Alienazione
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The Indifferent

Canvas 120 x 80 cm. It is his that chair immersed in black, in the deepest darkness that raises barriers between him and the world. Mixed media: acrylic, gold leaf fragments, epoxy resin. Recycling of chalk, brushes, paper, clay, shells, pencils, 3D pen filaments, chairs, tubes of paint, aluminum and much more....

Paola Arrigoni, L'Indifferente
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Toxic Loves

Canvas cm. 50 x 70 Mixed media: acrylic and use of epoxy resin, glitter and phosphorescent colors Toxic loves that I represented as jellyfish to which I gave the shape of hearts. Jellyfish are very dangerous, some deadly, I represented them as luminous jellyfish (like Pelagia noctiluca) which create a lot of pain and can leave abrasions and scars as important as toxic loves that drag you into an abyss. 2022

Paola Arrigoni, L'inizio del mio viaggio
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I love challenges

Canvas cm. 50 x 70. Mixed media, paper, acrylic, clip and resin" The bad thing about having a heart as fragile as paper is that it can be wrinkled and crumpled.
 The great thing is that you can make a little boat out of it and challenge the ocean.
 (Fabrizio Caramagna)” Year 2023

Paola Arrigoni, Un'opera complicata, come la vita
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I love challenges

Canvas cm. 50 x 70. Mixed media, paper, acrylic, clip and resin" The bad thing about having a heart as fragile as paper is that it can be wrinkled and crumpled.
 The great thing is that you can make a little boat out of it and challenge the ocean.
 (Fabrizio Caramagna)” Year 2023

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Legàmi/Legámi

I used 100 hinges, 50 sheets of gold leaf and resin. The hinges to represent the bonds which can be multiple and this is the reason for the use of different colors and various shapes incorporated in the resin tied in an embrace. Many bonds are impossible to explain, they defy all logic and distance without ever breaking. Each bond has its own history and lives in its own light or in the darkest darkness. Every bond is different and unique, some travel invisible paths or live only in the mind. There is a beautiful poem by Jorge Luis Borges that says: You don't really know if life is a journey, if it's a dream, if it's waiting, if it's a plan that unfolds day after day and you don't realize it unless you look ahead. backwards. You don't know if it makes sense. 
In certain moments the meaning doesn't matter.
 Connections count. Jorge Luis Borges Year 2022

Paola Arrigoni, Loro siamo tutte noi
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