Blue - Red - Gold

LUCIA CECCHI

Lucia Cecchi was born  in Viareggio  (Lu) in 1960  and now she lives in Prato: after her academic training  she started  to have an original  artistic expressiveness.  She began to exhibit from 1998 in many  Italian towns.

She is a refined  artist promoting an aggressive painting ,but at the same  time  passionate and emotional .  She attempts to minimalize, to abstract  and synthetize  both in her bigger  works, her smaller  and 3D works .

During her artistic course,  Lucia Cecchi shifted from academic  painting  to the carrying out of works  made by assembling  and plaiting of metals and plastic materials, realising futurist landscapes  and shapes . Then, her artistic search shifted  to “ Computer Art “ ,but later on, it came back  to her recent works using colours  and materials to improve and to personalize  her conceptual code.

Her last works are the series  “Oroscuro” ( Darkgold ) that she showed  recently at the  Café “Giubbe Rosse”  in Florence ; they are works  where, besides clean colours  and bitumen pouring  stand out  gold leaves  or mosaic gold flashes .

Generally her artistic expression is creative, abstract  and material: she alternates  between  the creation  of installation ,made of plaiting  of metallic nets  and plastic materials ,and the creation  of painting works ,with rough and hard-fought surfaces  where colours  and attached  materials through  many alchemies  , from corrosion ,laceration  and texture  wanted.

Lucia Cecchi can be described  as a great material manipulator ; in fact  she chooses ,she cuts, she composes pieces  of  fabric, paper , plastic , metal , poor materials  ruined by everyday life . Her works  are characterized  by a careful  chromatic  search  and by the use of recycled  materials  : colour , material lumps, scrap of newspaper  or fabric  ( overall bale ) ; all recycled  objects  or their fragments  recovered  become elements  for a new address  and they are used  like precious  mosaic tesserae .

The artist substitutes  the pleasure  of harmonic composition  to the existential  emotivity  of the gesture , everything  well celebrated  in all its  parts ,doing an inlay work where  nothing is left to chance.

In her works she  shows  neither  a world that is  dissolving  nor  she uses  recycled  material  to argue against  consumer society ,but she tries  to arouse  in the observer  the sense  of the beauty  of nature , that can be showed  even through small fragments .

Lucia Cecchi’s   painting  is instinctive  ,from her works  comes out  the search  of freedom in expression  to free herself  from the functional  restrictions  destructuring shapes , intended  on objects ,to open to the insight  of the mind .

Lucia Cecchi’s  abstraction comes from testing  and adapting  what historical avanguards left to contemporary language; particularly  we can find marks of the European informal  style , “Action painting”  and “poor  art “  influences  . We can also  prove  that  at first  sight , many of her canvas  evoke  Alberto Burri’s  informal research ,done from the post-war period.

In the whole production  of Lucia Cecchi  , the surface  of each  work  is a space  that tells  you  many stories: some are simultaneous stories which are intertwined, some are marks of life, all showed in an anti-narrative dimension, in her hermetic symbolism.

( Serena Bacci)   

(Translation: Matteo Vezzosi)