Self-portrait
2011, ceramic, h 50 cm |
"For years Zizzi has been making an art that could be defined as traditional. Both the subjects and the techniques are classical: they are human or animal bodies, which in clay, bronze or charcoal represent gods, allegories, contemporary stories and narrative interweaving between them. In her work the signifier and the meaning coincide in the search for an aesthetic, itself full of depth and intention. Aesthetics is the concept and the aim, which is realized with immediacy without superstructures or artifices: clay, metal, coal. Her art is no longer binary gentle or terrible as Plato's traditional imitation of nature would have it, but it carries with it all the traces of our time, grotesque and wonderful at the same time. The sinister presence of the animals, the inhumanly contorted bodies, the sense of menace and madness that seeps out of the expressiveness of the modeling and the stroke, are all elements that corrupt beauty and yet enhance and complement it: just as a scar describes a life more than a smooth cheek, in the same way our age proudly shows itself in a crookedness rather than in a structure." Sergio Pietra |