Marcella Cavallaro was born in Frankfurt, Germany, on 30/06/1981. Already in the early years of his life she approaches drawing and painting. Equipped with a great spirit of observation and strong artistic aptitudes, she enrolled at the State Art Institute of Giarre (CT), where she obtained the title of "Master of Art", and subsequently the diploma in "Relief and Cataloging". The love for drawing led her to deepen her passion in order to develop her creativity, and she attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Catania, where she graduated with honors in "Painting". Fascinated by the study and preservation of ancient art, a subject of a study subject of the Academy "Restoration of works of art", the same year she attended a course in restoration, acquiring the qualification of Restorer of paintings on wood and polychrome wooden works and Restorer of paintings on canvas. She works as a restorer, gaining her experience in the field of conservative restoration of ecclesiastical cultural heritage, stone materials and wall paintings. Despite the assiduous commitment in this work, she never neglects painting and drawing which remain her greatest passion. Take a portrait and landscape airbrushing course to learn a new technique and put it into practice professionally.

While working as a restorer, she enters the art world as a self-taught. Dedicating herself to a careful accuracy of all the details, she perfects herself more and more in the figurative style, towards which she is naturally inclined. It undertakes by supporting the customer in the search for the best type of decorative intervention that has a decisive result, in order to harmonize it in the environmental context, and creates trompe l'oeil, interior and exterior decoration. Her first oil paintings are a series of figures of naked women represented with their faces not evident or with their eyes closed, as if to say closed in their prison, in their dreams or in death, or in their inner world. Marcella paints them almost as if she wanted to hide them from him, highlighting the contrasts of light and shadow more to make the three-dimensionality stronger. This shows that the artist, despite the satisfactions from the working point of view, from the human point of view has had to face a period of inner crisis, and for a long time he will no longer come close to an easel. The breaking point opens a new phase for Marcella: having eliminated the dark colors from her palette, and having found the joy of living, she starts painting again, looking at the world as a child. He prefers landscapes that allow him to focus on the nature that he represents luxuriant.

Through the practice and the constant ambition to give ever greater perfection to his works, he therefore begins to create works in which there is a radical change in the style that becomes of clear impressionist derivation, uses pure and bright colors, and is inspired by Magritte's magical realism, capturing the surrealist aspect. Marcella's becomes an imaginary world, where she frees her mind, and her imagination would seem almost naive, pure, belonging to someone who has lived only the beauty of life. In reality Marcella has decided to counteract her anxieties and not to reproduce them with her painting. Furthermore, a careful eye does not escape the fact that, despite the festive colors, his "gardens" always contain some dark corner. To date, Marcella carries on her passions and believes in her talent, and she knows very well that art can only be an integral part of her life.

 

Marcella Cavallaro