About me

Silvana Chiozza was born in Buenos Aires, lives and works in Rome. She began painting at just 5 years old with the Argentine master Battle Planas, she continued her painting training in parallel with her university career in medicine with her paternal grandfather, a marine painter in the neighbourhood of La Boca in Buenos Aires.

In 1988 she moved to Rome. She was struck by soft light, which characterizes her first figurative works. She makes countless viewpoints, choosing angles that are never frontal, almost unknown subjects, hidden corners of the city, characterized by the representation of places without human presence, silent, and suspended in time, working with a choice of tonal palette, and a Morandi-like atmosphere, in her works the colours of Rome, the sienna, the ochre and grays, and the blue of the sky shape her chromatic identity that in addition to figuration will later characterize her abstract works.

Around 2010 her works reach a synthesis that precedes the transition to abstraction.

She begins to create informal abstract works using mixed and experimental techniques, making contaminations with various materials. Creating surfaces themselves, material, vibrant, “colorfield” in the manner of Rothko, also finding inspiration in the works of Manolo Valdez.

The immersion in abstraction enriches her work with new elements, giving rise to a new phase of fusion of the two pictorial languages. She returns to landscapes and her favorite places from a new angle, choosing aerial views, working with spatula in short brush strokes, creating vibrant surfaces, suspended, silent and dreamy atmospheres.

Her works are present in public and private collections in Europe, Argentina and Japan.

She has been reviewed by Italian critics: Gianni Garrera, Carlo Fabrizio Carli, Paolo Cicchini, Massimo Scaringella; Argentinian: Rosa Maria Ravera, Rafael Squirru, Jose Emilio Burucua, and Enrique Gené, and Japanese: Ichinose Kenta.