CARLOTTA CARZANIGA

Italian

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Illustrations

Pencil and Ink on Paper

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Carlotta Carzaniga's imagery reads immediately as language. Though fluency resides only with the artist, viewers can glean insights from repeated visual phrases.  Infants and embryos as symbols, antique bombs as letters, classical sculptures, plants, animals, and hydraulic machines are interwoven to create something much more than the simple sum of their parts.

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For all their industrialism, Carzaniga's drawings tell stories about human nature.  The human forms placed beside hydraulic machines are a metaphor for our reactions to the outside pressures of the world.  The artist is fascinated extremes, and how they cause people to act in unforeseeable ways. Despite the implication that behaviors cannot be predicted, Carzaniga's images seem to speak of destiny.