Biography
Laura Giardino was born in Milan in 1976.
She claims to have felt the need to paint since childhood. She attended the Artistic High School and later the Brera Academy.
To create her paintings, she initially draws from images she has collected since childhood, and then she focuses almost exclusively on her visual notes. The aura of mystery surrounding her works invites one to reconstruct a narrative beyond the frame. The observer participates with their interpretation, and in the more recent works, spaces where the figure is no longer present are encompassed by an apparent central void.
Her pictorial research focuses on spaces, predominantly urban, as a place of investigation into the life that flows through them. Ordinary environments are transformed into elsewhere to be explored anew. The essential composition, improbable perspectives, unusual colors, and unexpected lights offer an enigmatic vision of reality. Mysterious, like existence.
She has participated in numerous public and private exhibitions. We recall the extensive personal project "Aperture/Aperturas," curated by Carmelo di Gennaro, presented at the Italian Cultural Institute of Madrid, and "Out Of Field," curated by Marina Guida, at PAN in Naples. Her work has been discussed in major Italian industry magazines and in leading national and international newspapers. Monographic features have been published in Arte, Artribune, Espoarte, AD Italia, El Pais, and El Mundo. In 2020, the monograph "La Luce Oltre," with text by Elena Pontiggia, was published in the Vanillaedizioni's the painter’s room series. Her works are included in the permanent collections of: Museo Michetti, VAF Stiftung, and Fondazione The Bank.
