About
Daniela Mologni has been painting the human body for over twenty years. Trained at the Andrea Fantoni School of Applied Arts in Bergamo and graduated in Painting from the Brera Academy in Milan, she has developed a personal language between expressionism and abstraction, in which the figure remains predominant.
She applies paint with foam rollers, on panel, canvas and polyurethane, using an essential palette that tends towards monochrome.
Daniela Mologni was born in Bergamo, Italy, in 1975, where she lives and works. Her painting is a figurative expressionism centred on the human body: figures deformed in unusual perspectives, a palette reduced to white, black, browns and gold, with rare accents of red.
Her work has been shown in Italy, Mexico and the United States, and is held in private collections in Italy and Denmark.
Figure as object of study.
Synthesis as research.
Colour as simplicity.
I came to know Daniela Mologni through her figures, deformed in unusual perspectives: nudes in which sex becomes the part standing for the whole, turning into abstraction through the role it plays in the composition.
Anatomical parts in full view never disturb the whole of the work; within it they become simple signs, or patches of chiaroscuro.
Colour is used sparingly, limited to black and white, to browns and to the rare touch of minium red. Small foam rollers glide confidently over the canvas and bring the forms to life.
An expressionist beyond any doubt, her works recall those of Schiele, both in perspective and in a respect for anatomy that becomes constructive within the work.
A painting within the painting.
«Using rollers came naturally to me», Daniela Mologni explains, «it was quicker for me to work with this stroke. Out of a practical choice a true style was born, a stroke that distinctively marks all my work.»
The rawness of the naked bodies, which tell their story directly and without filters, is softened by a frequent use of monochrome, which gives way to two or at most three colours.
«The human figure cannot leave you indifferent: it can shock, disturb, offend, or attract, seduce, arouse. In my research into abstract painting I have never managed to move away from the figure.»
The very skin of the naked bodies seems to be the canvas on which the search for line, colour and shadow takes place. A painting within the painting.