La primavera (2022) Painting by Letizia Pecci

Born in Florence, Letizia Pecci dedicated herself to drawing and painting from an early age. She studied literature  and philosophy and, alongside her profession as Event Planner, she continued to cultivate her passion for drawing, enriching it with the study of art history. In 2000 she moved to Berlin where she attended advanced courses in painting, drawing and mixed media, thanks to which she continued to experiment with her own original style between figurative and abstract.

Letizia Pecci composes landscapes abstract natural elements and symbolic portraits with a particular technique that combines acrylic on canvas, inks, textured surfaces and collage with different types of paper, in particular rice and tissue paper printed with textures moulds by the artist. Letizia's objective is therefore to invite to see beneath the first "skin" of a pictorial subject and in the the thickness of layers of composition, that she calls " network of connections".

A series of works is dedicated to the 'landscape', characterized by the depiction of the artist’s homeland, the Tuscan hills which become a series of infinite waves. Each frame is enriched by a variety of painted, engraved or textured surfaces; these seem to steal 'their own skin' from other elements of nature, whether animal or vegetable, or from graphic fantasies that surprise the observer with contrasts accentuated by the choice of colours. Patches, nets, paths and textures express the traces of experiences, sufferings, memories, losing and finding oneself, all of which symbolically emerge and become visible on the surfaces. Sometimes fragments of this nature become protagonists in the series "Botanicals" and "Abstracts". Very often the hills are crossed by a completely white road, which invites  to walk through the painting as a chance to find our own path, luminous and harmonious.

The representation of defeats, victories, experiences and signs of life emerge in the same way in the series dedicated to the depiction of women's faces which become the "allegorical" representation of the many facets of the female world through the layering of textures. The faces, composed of often monochrome chiaroscuro, synthetic shapes and broad brushstrokes, have as their focal points the eyes. These are intense and seem address the observer, inviting him to discover different worlds, without stopping at the exterior of beauty. When they close their eyes, they are focused on themselves but express an intimate calmness. They are proud women, confident in showing their history that seems tattooed on their skin.

Letizia's art stems from a desire to interpret the real world by going beyond the eye's natural instinct to recognise what it observes, whether it be landscapes, female faces or natural subjects, and to be able to go in depth of things.

• Nationality: ITALY
• Date of birth : 1971
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• Groups: Contemporary Italian Artists