Paola Paleari, Behind the cover ItaliaImballaggio 1-2/2022

Born in Carate Brianza in 1968, Paola Paleari graduated from the New Academy of Fine Arts (NABA) in Milan.

She has to her credit numerous group exhibitions in Italy and abroad, including the most recent:

• 2014, she gives shape to the performance of body painting by painting the famous chaise longue “Cangura” of the designer Giò Mussi (Mussi Italy), exhibited later at the Fiera del Mobile in Milan together with other works made with the same technique;

• 2017, personal “Marquisa” at the gallery Statuto13 in Milan;

• 2019, personal “Sacrum Fores”, Casa Novecento Art of Monza;

• 2020, Permanent exhibition of the work Art-Cube “D.A.M.A” for Domus at Eachway Century Fashion Museum in Shenzen China;

• 2021, Bi-personal exhibition “Harry Potter is not an artist” at Arti-sta Monza exhibition space.

A word from the author

“Pop Insomnia” is placed in a mundane worldliness that must be in perfect balance with the earthly cycle, where the real and dreamlike spheres meet through the pillow.

The central theme is the discomfort that is created around the disturbance of sleep, a problem now widespread and here elaborated in a “pop” key, playing with the characteristic bright colors and a “deception” of perception.  

The contrast between the real softness of the pillow and the hardness of its realization is a synthesis of the elaboration: each element is characterized by specific subjects that underline and ironize the insomnia of the hyper-connected era.

A word from the critics

Concepts such as biodiversity of materials, empirical matter and mythology can be found in Paola Paleari’s sculptures and they are characterized by a careful research and elaboration of external elements, intruders or inhabitants of the Earth. In painting the sign is presented as a superimposition of materials suggested to the artist by the deep oneiric and earthly resonance; each choice becomes part of a creation that becomes a symbol of an anthropocenic wound.

(Tessa Viganò)