Aurora Mazzoldi

Northern Italian painter Aurora Mazzoldi’s iconic subjects and figures are rendered with fantastic beauty and incredible sensual power. Her acrylic paintings rarely feature more than three subjects, often only one, rendered in a grandiose, majestic style in which the brushstrokes are delicate and soft, but the faces and forms have a striking, arresting force. “To me painting is not a need,” she explains, “but it is a pleasure.” Indeed, there’s a great deal of enjoyment to be taken from viewing the gentle textures she creates, the brimming colors she deploys, the mysterious and stylized stories and characters she presents.

Mazzoldi’s most significant influences are the Italian Old Masters, Romantic European painters and Christian Esotericism, all of which are synthesized magically in her dramatic compositions and fascinating symbolism. Most pieces are dominated by burning orange hues, elegant reds or contemplative purples and blues. The pleasure in Mazzoldi’s paintings comes first from the visual beauty of each piece, and then from the delightful challenge of discerning its meaning.