Biography
Carla Bedini, born in Castellanza in 1964, lives and works at Felina in Reggio Emilia.
She graduated in electronic engineering, only a few years ago she decided to change her field and move towards painting. At first attracted by Impressionism, she later developed a personal style very close to the magical realism of the early twentieth century, closely linked to the Renaissance figurative tradition.
Her creatures, slender women with large expressive eyes, with sewn-on and highly sought-after clothes, seem to feed on dreams. The painting on gauze, with transparent colors and dark tones, emphasizes the dreamlike and mysterious halo that surrounds these girls with ambiguous and contradictory features typical of adolescents. The lights are cold, and the attention to physical detail is painstaking. They are gaunt, immobile and androgynous, they remind me of the Beecroft girls, with their bodies depersonalized by contemporary aesthetic criteria. You can find them with their feet soaked in enchanted ponds, or intent on scrutinizing elaborate and very fine lace. Sometimes they cross small flowering branches, but perhaps they are just waiting to see an elf or a fairy pass by.
