Rough, worked textures collide with opulent, vibrant colors in Italian artist Ilde Maurizi’s works. Through nuanced, vividly physical and painterly surfaces, Maurizi’s paintings speak to our contemporary connection with the excitement of the past. A sense of mystery thus pervades these lushly worked paintings, evoking both intrigue and fascination. The artist uses a number of painterly techniques, and blends materials into her paints in order to achieve the hewn, classical impastos that whisk the viewer away to a time long past. In her work, Maurizi challenges herself to portray reality truly and authentically, as it appears in actuality, yet through her intoxicating use of color and figuration, this reality is alluringly steeped in poetic beauty. “I am inspired by everything that arouses an emotion… an expressive female face or a landscape reflected on the water,” she says.
Ilde Maurizi attended the International Art Academy of Rome and since 2001 has shared her expertise with the pupils of Scienza dell’Arte of Rome, a private painting school where she is presently working as a teaching assistant.