FUN 4 KIDS II

The group exhibition FUN 4 KIDS II by PUNTO SULL’ARTE is now on show in Switzerland.

Four female Artists, Claudia Giraudo, Lene Kilde, Sabrina Milazzo and Valeria Vaccaro. Their paintings and sculptures will be exhibited in an exclusive venue, Art Gallery Arté Restaurant in Lugano. This elegant location, overlooking the shores of Lake Lugano, is part of the luxurious 5-star Hotel Villa Castagnola. For years, Art Gallery Arté Restaurant has been offering an irresistible combination of excellent food and art. This year our artists have been chosen to be on show until November 2024.

The artists of FUN 4 KIDS II focus on the contradictions and emotions that childhood generates.

Claudia Giraudo, born in Turin in 1974, brings to the exhibition a selection of her light and fairy characters. The artist paints with detailed and ancient precision, taking up the lessons of the masters of Renaissance and Northern Europe. Often linked to the world of fairy tales, her children are always engaged in mysterious dialogues with their guide animals.

Lene Kilde, born in Norway in 1981, recounts her childhood through her sculptures made of concrete and wire mesh. Although faceless, Kilde’s works convey the thousand emotions that color the world of childhood. Kilde is convinced that nonverbal communication is the most honest and she has made her artist research out of this belief.

Sabrina Milazzo, a painter from Turin born in 1975, exhibits a series of oils on canvas at very high resolution. The Disney characters that have nourished the imagination of recent generations stand out against bright and dazzling backgrounds. Milazzo, with her soft brushstrokes, depicts the passage between the age of innocence and that of awareness.

Valeria Vaccaro, an artist born in Turin in 1988, brings to Lugano her famous sculptures that enchant and deceive at the same time. The toys sculpted by the artist play with the viewer’s perception, creating a short circuit of meanings. Pencils apparently made of wood, turn out to be made of white marble, underlining the message that nothing is as it seems.

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Short Artist bio:

CLAUDIA GIRAUDO 

The raison d’être of Claudia Giraudo’s work lies in the desire to bring her inner world to surface. A world made of surreal atmospheres, of children with a magical and mysterious appearance who seem to entertain a silent dialogue with their guide spirit. She was born in Turin in 1974. She graduated with full marks in 2001 at the Accademia Albertina of Fine Arts in Turin. She started her research in visual painting, developing her skills through the study of Renaissance and Northern European Masters; this background transpires from both her technique and her choice of the subjects, yet maintaining her personal style. She frequently exhibits in art fairs, private galleries and institutional public places, among which the National Etruscan Museum Villa Giulia and Carlo Bilotti Aranciera Museum in Villa Borghese (Rome), Polo del 900 in Turin, the Jewish Museum in Bologna, The Artist House in Tel Aviv and Casa del Conte Verde Museum in Rivoli. Her works belong to permanent collections and national and international museums, among which the Harmony Art Foundation in Mumbai (India), Museo MACIST in Biella, Museo Eusebio in Alba and Sala del Consiglio in Bossolasco (Cuneo-Italy) and Museo Civico in Bevagna (Perugia-Italy). She lives and works in a small town near Asti.

LENE KILDE 

The Norwegian artist Lene Kilde creates figurative sculptures inspired by the emotions and personalities of children. She believes that their body language is the purest form of communication. She stops each childlike pose with cement-sculpted hands and feet, and fragments of textured clothing made from colored, metal mesh. The “incomplete” pieces invite the viewer to use his imagination to fill in the visual gaps and illusory contours, and perhaps delve into their own childhood memories. Their concrete hands and feet still portray a strong sense of character. She was born in Rælingen, a small town near Oslo, Norway, in 1981. She attended the Art School in Asker and studied sculpture at the Einar Granum School of Art in Oslo. In 2012 she obtained a Master’s degree in Product Design at Oslo and Akershus University College and was subsequently awarded a three-year scholarship by the prestigious Norwegian Arts Council. She has exhibited her works in solo and group exhibitions and art fairs in Europe, Switzerland, USA, Dubai, Lebanon and Taiwan. Among the international art fairs, she took part in SCOPE Basel and SCOPE Miami. Her sculptures are part of important private collections all over the world. She lives and works in Sweden.

SABRINA MILAZZO 

Sabrina Milazzo has chosen oil painting as her expressive medium, and she works with it in a meticulous and realistic way which confers a strong three dimensionality to her works. The Artist moves within the framework of an unusual figuration, poised between photographic hyperrealism and neo-surrealistic vision of reality, between pop imagery and conceptualism. Her most frequent subjects are the vintage Disney characters who have nourished the imagination of past generations, bearers of universal values such as courage, sharing, tolerance, fairness, friendship and love. She covers them with a smooth bright glaze but the strength of the forms remains intact and continues to convey messages of positivity. Sabrina Milazzo was born in Turin in 1975. After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Turin, she began to exhibit her works in 2003. She has taken part in art fairs such as MiArt, ArteFiera Bologna and Context ArtMiami. In 2011 she took part in the 54th Biennale di Venezia, Italian Pavillon in Turin and in 2013 her works were shown at Art Stays, International Festival of Contemporary Art in Ptuj, Slovenia. Important art critics have written about her work. Her paintings are part of important private collections all over the world. She lives and works in Turin.

VALERIA VACCARO 

Valeria Vaccaro is a young Turinese sculptor fascinated by fire’s purifying force and its symbolic, alchemical and primordial meaning. Fire transforms everything, even marble, the material which the artist has chosen as an expressive weapon, shaping it until it looks like wood, burnt and blackened by the flames. She was born in 1988 in Turin. After attending the Artistic High School, she studied architecture at the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin. She has exhibited regularly since 2005. Between 2013 and 2015 she participated in the Biennale Itinerante Europea JCE Jeune Création Européenne. In 2015 she presented her works at Exhibit in Turin and at the Castle Museum of Contemporary Art in Rivara. In 2017, she won a special mention from the city of Turin at the Art Prize CBM. In 2020 she was selected for exhibiting some of her sculptures at BAG Bocconi Art Gallery in Milan. In 2022 she is the winner of the Second Prize of the VAF Foundation Award – 9th Edition recognized by the prestigious German Foundation to promote innovative positions in Italian Contemporary Art and to communicate them in Germany. She lives and works in Turin.