Italian artist Antonella Zazzera graduated from the Fine Arts Academy of Perugia, in Italy. Through chiaroscuro, she learns how to model form with light. Her researches led her to focus on the power of signs and traces, and some of her first works can be related to graffiti represented in Brassaï or Dubuffet’s works. Pursuing her experiences, she discovered the major importance of light when defining Space and Form. Her wish to translate this discovery into a more dynamic language led her towards three-dimensional works. She found her own red thread: copper. Antonella Zazzera continuously weaves the thread of her sculpture with her hands, trying to feel, almost blindly and instinctively, the harmonious point where her copper wire will be inserted, make a knot, and go off in another direction. This weaving of threads, composed according to a precise ritual forms a kind of metallic pattern, catching and reflecting light. Technique becomes finer, raw materials are more diverse: the artist plays with variations of form and color, with the thickness of threads and vibrating effects provoked by the multiplications of lines to produce sculptures of high tension.

In 2014, on this occasion of a Carte Blanche to Frédéric Jaeger, the gallery presented a solo show entitled “Light Weaving” – a first presentation of her work to the French public. Antonella Zazzera has participated in numerous collective exhibitions in Europe, in the United States, in Japan, in China and in Israel.

In 2015, a work by Antonella Zazzera is presented at the exhibition “Quinte-Essence”, which celebrates the gallery’s 90 years of activity.

In 2016, Antonella Zazzera was presented in the gardens of the Cité de la Céramique on the occasion of “Sèvres Outdoors”. In 2017, the artist is presented at the “Kairos Castle” group show, at Gaasbeek Castle in Belgium.
That same year, a work by the artist is presented at the fair Art Dubaï.

In 2017, the gallery presents a work by Antonella Zazzera at the exhibition “Le Féminin Demeure”, devoted to women artists of the gallery.

In 2018, the gallery presents a work by Antonella Zazzera at the exhibition “Dessins de Sculpteurs”. The artist is also presented in the exhibition “Tissage, Tressage… quand la sculpture défile” at Fondation Villa Datris, in L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, South of France.

From May 18 to July 20, 2019, the gallery dedicates a solo exhibition to the artist “LUMINESCENCE”.

A monograph entitled Antonella Zazzera. Armoniche tensioni is published in 2023:
Edited by Federico Sardella.
Essays by Arnaldo Pomodoro, Federico Sardella.
Written by Antonella Cattani, Peter Frey and Véronique Jaeger.

www.antonellazazzera.com