The Golden Lady project was born in 2021 for the contemporary art biennial in Florence. The theme was “The Feminine” and I imagined a woman immersed in nature. The Golden Lady has since become a series.
The technique I use is Mobile Art, that is art with iPhone and iPad. I discovered this art form in 2009 by watching the first works of American artists who used the first iPhones. Since 2010 they have also been available in Italy and that’s how I started.
Initially I printed on glossy photographic paper, then on canvas and from 2021 on aluminium. I use this material because it is bright, it shines and it seems to restore some of the brightness with which backlit images on the iPhone are born.
The Golden Lady series is highly inspiring to me because it talks about women, it reflects on women. Art has an important function: that of transmitting emotions. And it can be so powerful as to bring teachings, messages that can have a social function.
My Golden Ladies are women in harmony with nature, they are goddesses, woodland nymphs, free women. They are ancient women who recall the sacred feminine of Mediterranean culture, but also modern women, self-aware, independent, generators of vital energy. Every woman is ultimately a Golden Lady because she has that strength and energy within her.
This series is dedicated to women but is also aimed at men who love and respect women.
“Golden Lady is a significant and symbolic series that puts near two important concepts: the one of nature and the new technologies and their distance. The dynamic effect created by the wood, the natural element that constitutes the lady’s essence, reminds the viewers of the futuristic voyage; a sort of vortex that arrives and reaches the centre of the scene, that corresponds with the lady’s throat. Static is, on the contrary, the external essence of the lady, just as a tree trunk appears. Everything, every single element that adorns the piece, seems to have been adjoined later and this is important for the effect that it creates. Above all, the artist has been able to give to the piece a sort of sentimental value, thanks to the presence of the little bird on the lady’s head, as to remain anchored to nature in a new technological era.
Martina Stagi, art curator
GIULIA BAITA 