Earlier Works brings together Barbara Pietrasanta’s paintings from the 1990s to the early 2000s: the formative period between Milan and New York, in which her figurative language took shape. Oil on canvas, collage and mixed media for a constant investigation into female identity, the body and the contradictions of contemporary life. Works that bear the marks of direct, unfiltered painting, in dialogue with art history and the urgency of the present.
A constant play of displacements, situations and meanings, of role-play between the artist who paints and the subject represented, in which only painting is in a position of strength. Everything else is questioned.
“The game of life” 1992 oil on canvas, cm. 120×150“Leslie” 1990 oil on canvas and fabric, cm. 70×100“Aggressiveness” 2002 oil on canvas, cm.60×100“Work makes you free” 1998 oil on canvas, cm.100×100“Condominium” 1997 oil on canvas, cm.50×50“Rewind” 2002 oil on canvas, cm.130×100“Atlantide” 1999 oil on canvas, cm.170×280“Roots” 1990 oil on canvas, cm.100×150“Beyond the wall” 1990 oil on canvas, collage and natural pigments, cm. 50×100“Roads, crossroads and detours” oil on canvas, cm.100×120“Roundabout” 1998, oil on canvas cm.100×120“Revelations” 1995 oil on canvas and acrylics, cm. 100×50“Petrol” 1997 oil on canvas, cm. 120×170“7th street” 1991, oil on canvas cm. 120×80“Freedom” 1996 oil on canvas and collage, cm.100×120“Ransom” 1991 oil on canvas, 100×100“Pregnancy” 1992 oil on canvas, cm.70×120“Athena Nike” 1992 oil on canvas, cm. 100×120“When materialism reigns, magic returns” 1995 oil on canvas, cm.100×120“Farewell” 2000 oil on canvas, cm.100×100“Borders 1992 oil on canvas,cm.100×120“The new Era” 1991 oil on canvas and collage, cm.100×150“Angel” 1999 oil on canvas and collage, cm.50×80“There is nothing to laugh” oil on jute, cm. 120×120“The inconsistency of the substance” oil on canvas, cm. 70×100
