The work of Giulia Seri refers to life from the entirely humane point of view emphasizing the suffering over the transience of existence. Her emotional, fragile and expressive figures are related to mythological references that uncover the fragility of human existence and its relation to death or better, the search for eternity functioning as ex voto, prayers, magic spells. The delicacy of materials and tones the artists uses contrast with the painful of the content referring to pain, death and fragility of flesh.

At the LdM Gallery, Giulia will present Amduat (On the other side for ancient Egyptians) her watercolors, prints and sculptures made of bread, wax, fabric and ceramics.

After the opening on Wednesday February 22nd, the exhibition will stay open until Friday March 10th,

Special event/Artist Talk: Wednesday March 1st from 5 to 7 pm:  a talk between Giulia Seri, artist, Valentina Santini, egyptologist CAMNES, Spela Zidar, art curator.

About AMDUAT:

Giulia Seri’s refers to life from the entirely humane point of view emphasizing the suffering over the transience of existence. Her emotional, fragile and expressive figures are related to mythological references that uncover the fragility of human existence and its relation to death or better, the search for eternity functioning as ex voto, prayers, magic spells. The delicacy of materials and tones the artist uses, contrast with the pain of the content referring to pain, death and fragility of flesh.
At the LdM Gallery, Giulia will present Amduat (On the other side for Ancient Egyptians) her watercolors, prints and sculptures made of bread, wax, fabric and ceramics.

Giulia Seri, born in Rome in 1988, lives and works in Florence since 2008.

After graduating in biology, she studied painting at the Art Students League of New York and in 2017 obtained a scholarship at the international school of graphic art “il Bisonte” in Florence. She participated in group and personal exhibitions in Italy and abroad, participated in artist residencies and obtained various national and international awards; among the most relevant the invitation to the European Triennial of Contemporary Engraving and the International Biennial of works on paper, the jury prize at the Koschatzky Art Award 2021, the selection among the featured artists at the Cramum Prize and the mention of the jury at the Combat Prize 2021. In her work Seri uses different techniques: painting, engraving, sculpture, installation.

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