The Associazione Polis Sillico, the Centro Internazionale Cultura e Spiritualità Frà Benedetto and the Comune of Pieve Fosciana have organised an exhibition of work by two artists in the centuries old Palazzo Carli at Sillico.
Two very different artists from very different backgrounds and using widely differing mediums to express themselves.
Camila Arruda from Brazil uses photography and mixed mediums, – drawing and painting directly onto the photographic image and even building three dimensional objects across the canvas.
As you can hear in the short interview below (in English) not all of her work in this exhibition was on up the walls as two crates containing 5 or 6 images were somehow lost on the way during transport from Brazil via the UK to Pisa.
Luckily just as the interview was finishing, those two crates miraculously arrived by courier and the full contingent of work could finally get to be hung in the Palazzo Carli.
The second artist, Mirella Gerosa from Milan was exhibiting a series of terracotta figures which perfectly melded with the tone of the stone walls and terracotta tile flooring and as you can hear in the interview below (in Italiano) works in bronze and also smaller scale pieces including jewellery which she defined as “wearable sculpture”