Olivia Gozzano

OLIVIA GOZZANO, (Rome, 1967).
"Maiko".
Mixed media (acrylic and photographic transfer) on canvas.
Signed.
Measurements: 60 x 50 x 1,8 cm; 74 x 64 cm (frame).

Olivia Gozzano is an interpreter and inventor of a genre that is born from photography and grows in pure living matter, expressing herself with brushstrokes, in a mixture of transfers and pictorial techniques, from the imagination to the canvas, but also to other media, wherever there is matter that intersects with the spirit. She is a photographer and visual artist who investigates the most surprising revelations of life, composing on each canvas unconventional impressions of an original contemplation of reality. Olivia Gozzano has worked as a professional photographer. A few years ago, after embarking on a path with street art, she began to have a more physical and material contact with the artistic process. Her works are mixed media, a combination of photographs, transfer of images on glue or hot wax, oil and acrylic paints, brushes, palette knives, paints on various supports.

Roman by birth and Milanese by adoption, but a citizen of the world (her mother is German and her maternal grandparents Russian), Olivia has had art in her blood for several generations.
After art school she started working as an assistant photographer for several studios, after which she set up on her own and worked as a professional photographer in Tuscany.

Back in Milan, she explored other areas of photography: editorial services, portraits, fashion and landscapes.Since 2012, she has been collaborating with "atomo", a historical Milanese street artist, for the creation of stencils for graffiti and paintings and in the organization of events related to street art.Since 2018, in addition to photography and interior decoration, she has been engaged in the creation of more matteric artistic works, using glues, waxes and paints to transfer her images to canvases, wood and other supports.The habitat of the themes investigated by the artist is the cosmic, lyrical and wide ecumene of time and space, in a dizzying journey between the surreal and the existential. Past, present and space merge to create dense images, sometimes dreamlike and unexpected, traces of stories lived or to be lived.