PAOLA GIORDANO
Paola Giordano was born in 1953 in New Bedford, Massachusetts (U.S.A.), from a Florentine father, the artist Alvaro Giordano, and an Italian-American mother. She spent her childhood in Naples and at the age of about ten she moved to Milan, where she attended the art school and the Brera Academy of Fine Arts.
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Since the beginning, her creative approach is “sustainable”, a message of values, of social denunciation emerges, she lives the existential urban discomfort and records the same discomfort of the metropolitan society of her time, and it is a discomfort that finds an almost surrealistic expression in her painting, coming from her unconscious, beyond any rational control, each work becoming an intersection point between dream and reality, the images bind together in an apparently incongruous way, but in reality according to a logic that belongs to the deep forces of her spirit.
(Marco Eugenio Di Giandomenico, art critic)
"Quo Vadis", where the artist confronts the quantum theory of parallel universes, is a work of art about 5 meters long and 3 meters high, which in 2017, as part of the traveling exhibition OUR PLACE IN SPACE, commissioned by NASA and ESA, was exhibited first in Venice at Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, then in Chiavenna at the former Capuchin Convent and in 2018 in Garching, Munich, Germany, at the ESO Supernova Planetarium & Visitor Center. In "Quo Vadis" man navigates in an infinite space in search of himself and the deeper meaning of his existence, his cosmic journey is fraught with dangers, at any moment he risks being sucked into the black hole, which is nothing other than the negation of his ancestral derivation, it is the human choice contra spiritum, which he is tragically free to encounter at any moment, that is to say to experience death and decide to adhere to it.