Beatrice Alici

Beatrice Alici's imagery (born in San Donà di Piave, Venice, in 1992, graduated from the Academy of Venice) derives from an artistic practice experienced as an innate impulse, inseparable from instinct and the exploration of the unconscious. Faithful to figurative canons, her body of work gives shape to a sort of magical realism. The prevailing media are oil and acrylic on canvas or board and ceramic sculpture. The pictorial palette includes a variety of reds, purples, and oranges, as well as cool, shadowy colors, while the sculptures also feature polychrome variations. The dominant subject is the archetypal feminine, depicted in hybrid figures—goddesses, spirits, witches?—halfway between the natural and dream worlds. Enveloped in nocturnal atmospheres, under moonlit skies, in the midst of black forests, they may be replicas of inner visions or fantastical reworkings of landscape photographs.

Her work was included in the collective exhibition Pittura italiana oggi (Italian Painting Today) at the Triennale di Milano in 2023.

Sara Boggio