A multidisciplinary artist, Tiziana Mandolesi presents a body of work comprising paintings, sculptures and inks on paper.
Together they form an interlocked network of energy systems and symbols.
She explores a desire for a cosmic equilibrium through various processes that prioritise stillness and movement.
Gestures on canvas move between empty space, lines, symbolic forms and colours, a relationship from symbols to the cosmos and the natural world.
The sculptures combine a number of intricate processes that help her get to the final appearance, unknown at the outset. This process includes walking, connecting with nature and birds, silent pondering, sketching, sculpting in wax, mould making, bronze finishing and patinating.
She is fascinated by the relationship between the thing formed by hand and fire, from wax to bronze, appealing to her interest in the poetic possibility of materials and juxtapositions that occur during every second of the process.
Tiziana’s main media has been painting; however, she has become increasingly interested in and dedicated to sculpting. Working in bronze has allowed her a new kind of formal freedom.
She has had the privilege of exploring sculpture through the fascinating technique of lost wax casting at Butley Mills Studio Foundry in Suffolk.
The lost wax casting process is complex, a balance between volatility and intricacy, a method formulated over thousands of years.
Tiziana’s inspiration is mined from many sources, including post modernism, abstract expressionism and surrealism. She finds objects in her subconscious, and expresses her inner perceptions in a unique illusory world, creating a cosmic atmosphere.
Using similar compositions of shapes and lines to her paintings, Tiziana sculpts abstract paintings, with organic impulses, working on the piece from all angles and perspectives. This creates floating structures in a fantastic dream world - a deep conversation with universal energy.
These creations have an integrated dynamic, a swing movement that renders the object both balanced and unbalanced. Dissolving plastic shapes allow space to penetrate, to populate these dream landscapes with animated forms, where volumes and lines float.
Shadows are an important part of her work, opening an extra dimension, which is disconnected yet connected to reality, by creating a melody, a life form, and by setting sculptures in motion.
I grew up in Le Marche, Italy, but have been living in London for the last 23 years. I have been working on my art from a very young age. I was always fascinated by inspiring painters, and grew up surrounded by art all my life. I studied at the Academy of Art which opened the door of reading abstract paintings. I have been inspired by: Kandinsky with his studying of the philosophy of Art, Gorky as part abstractionist part expressionist with an emotional atmosphere, Picasso, Miro, David Smith’s sculptures and many others. I work in oil on canvas and I am doing digital works as well. My digital work is part of my contemporary expression, photography re-elaborated with effects and different techniques. I am working on shades of human emotions, fusing the fantastic and dream imagery, vibrating transitions, which creates a surreal landscape. A surreal word, which is connected with human soul, the painting is independent of subject matter, so the creation may say what it has to say, through purely pictorial means in the form of a Spiritual Unit. These units should live and exist for itself, as does nature, in accordance with the eternal law of the Universe, from a fluid primordial space. I’m trying to be the mediator of this “elsewhere” to create this illusory world and metaphysical dimensions. My paintings present as self-image; a reflection that mirrors my emotions and my personality, so the paintings as physical objects became a reality in themselves.