Roberta Coni

“I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eyes weave, and I behold the reality beneath.”
Roberta Coni makes this quote of Khalil Gibran hers with unpredictable effects of transparency, wisdom, and experience born in her soul before her interpretation of art.

Painting by Roberta Coni

Roberta can see beyond time and she knows how to make the sweetness and mystical portrait of a face, launch messages and judgments. The material is compact with translucent effects, shadows and mist that veil a gaze and then with limpid eyes look for absences, as the folds of lips shutter verses in bitter smiles. She can survey the difficulties of a portrait in every aspect, like time working with sore lime. Every glance affects the mind: we enter into the others forced to look deep within us.
She opens secret chests of wisdom, with answers in the womb of the dream and the truth that life imposes on us from the pain of living.

The innocence of every age offered through a suspended gaze that is waiting for answers.

Francesca di Castro

Roberta Coni was born in Marino (Rome) in 1976. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome in 1999.
She integrated her studies abroad with two grants in Spain and the United States.
Primarily interested in the human figure, she mixes the classical technique of oil painting with heavy body paste made ??of bitumen, melted wax and glue.
Since 2009, her artistic research has been geared toward large-scale paintings, in which the face often emerges from the shadows.

An Interpretation of the contemplative soul aimed in continuous introspection. Her work is characterized by it’s strong realism while combining rougher materials.

Female figures with poignant expressions, faces in the foreground, where, with detailed attention, almost lenticular, the brush focuses on the skin and eyes, and in particular to the secret pulse of the pictorial surface. The faces are often violated by time flowing relentlessly on the skin, deforming and shaping it over the years, to lay bare the soul.

She has created a compendium of contemporary work as she integrates video-art with the visual language of her paintings for creations made with the same techniques.

Lately she has begun an ambitious project related to the pictorial realization of the entire Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri.

She collaborates with several galleries abroad in England , Turkey, China, United States, Canada, France, Singapore, Brazil.

https://www.robertaconi.com/