Reviews
Critical note
by Francesca Callipari, art critic
"Lombard paintress and sculptress, Avellino is a versatile artist inclined to experimentation and who places the human body at the center of her research, investigating its expressiveness and the beauty of its forms in movement. A modern, lively and harmonious language emerges which combines the communicative power of physical gestures with a certain stylization of forms, present in some paintings and especially in sculptures.
The fil rouge of Avellino's works is undoubtedly a sensation of fluidity, which is revealed in the sweetness of the bodies caught in a certain position. This fluidity is also found in the paintings, where it seems the artist wants to guide the observer's eye to visually retracing the shapes of the body using tonal contrast, almost indicating a secret path towards the knowledge of the deepest meaning of the work itself..."
Critical note
by Anna Soricaro, art critic
"Young and mature, Viviana Avellino's art stands out for her ability to juggle painting and sculpture, which have always been two opposing and grandiose fields of investigation. The charm of the sculpture enveloped in class, grace and refinement is crowned by aesthetic essentiality and contrasts with the overwhelming and enthralling energy of the painting, with a deliberately thickened density. The pictorial colors are the distinctive trait of an art with a great expressive potential."
Critical note
by Pasquale Di Matteo, art critic
"Viviana Avellino is an artist who blends painting and sculpture to explore human complexities.
Her sculptures depict the essential beauty of the human body, the primordial strength of what is contained within muscles and skeleton, while her paintings capture raw emotions in a swirl of bright colors that nod to Pop Art.
Viviana Avellino combines aesthetics and philosophy, overcoming the barriers between work and observer, because her language inspires and is able to generate empathetic connections.
In a superficial era like the one we live in, her works teach us that we must look beyond appearances and embrace the depth of life, to become capable of intercepting what is essential, renouncing every superstructure."
Critical note to the painting "The whole sky is a rainbow"
by Dantebus Margutta
"Colour is the secret and the fulcrum of Viviana Avellino's brilliant art. Every work of Viviana, becomes in fact a chromatic explosion that, like a new Bing Bang, gives the being and the world a second chance of existence. "The whole sky is a rainbow", made of acrylic and cleverly garish despite the drying ease of this technique, marks on the canvas the sign of peace par excellence, building a bridge of reconciliation between the earth and the sky, between the interiority and the outwardness. In Genesis the rainbow represents the new covenant between God and humanity, appearing for the first time after the Great Flood in which Noah and his ark managed to survive, as a promise that the earth would no longer be flooded. Every single fragment of the work radiates positivity, because Viviana has soaked it with pieces of heart and grams of soul, grains of memories and pieces of herself. From light to dark, from above to below, from east to west and vice versa: everything works for good, everything shouts: "Life". We must go and resist until the end of the storm to see the wonder of the rainbow rise."
Critical note to "Volteggio"
by Anna Soricaro, art critic
"How much elegant sinuosity in this feminine body outlined with grace and elegance! Small and sweet, the gracefulness is revealed at first glance and lets the clay take form with essentiality of shapes and colors in a solution that silences the audience for its refinement."