Feminine but not feminist, open and at the same time mysterious, spontaneous but also meditative, autobiographical but also archetypal, the artist engages in a dialogue with the world, in which she acts as both a recipient and a giver by developing the possibility of making statements about the world in meet the world. Dreams are not dreamed, but embodied.
The question of "give" and "take" has become an essential question for the artist over the years, which is repeatedly reflected in recent works. In the paintings with the white spheres of light, spots or chandeliers, the painting process is in resonance with the question of how much light is needed. Furthermore, the selected fabric backgrounds (often black and white striped) not only depict a spatial structure, but also irritate the vibration of the light through their material character by impairing the physiological perceptibility of the recipient's eye. The topic of light is "transmitted" or conveyed on two different levels, both through the artistic message and through its physiological carrier. In this multilayered as well as fragmentary arrangement, painting is also a collage in the broadest sense. Mag. Andrea Helbach
Simple landscapes that tell of a banal everyday occurrence, looks that are generally quickly forgotten. Captured in pictures, however, they reveal a reality to us, cause an echo in our memories that is mostly beyond the simply namable ...
The solo exhibition in the Art Lounge of the Strabag House shows a spacious room staging with framed drawings on wallpapered walls on the subject of femininity as well as painting on fabric and small-format collages. The female sex, pretentiously portrayed, surrounded by figures of knights, gives an insight into the intimate sphere of various types of women, whose mental and physical sensitivities are portrayed in the form of a psychogram. Private and autobiographical matters flow here. Family, eroticism, lustful culinary delights, fluctuating feelings such as love, doubt, pain are united in the artist's world, which is sparkling with vitality, sophistication, spontaneity and sensuality. The woman on her winding path to herself frees herself from life lies and compulsions in an unconventional way and with self-irony and offers her idea of interpersonal values. Barbara Baum, Strabag Art Forum
Michela Ghisetti deals with the view of the female gender, which in art history seems to be male-dominated. The starting point was Gustave Courbet's famous painting "LOrigine du monde (1866)", which the artist transformed into funny, ironic, portrait-like depictions of the female sex with different hairstyles as a mirror of personality and temperament. The total work of art
Matching, specially selected wallpaper shone through the fragrant leaves drawn on Japanese paper, which caused the delicate genre to merge with the rest of the exhibition. The artist's courageous, very personal statement was very well received.
The work "Vienna, Vienna, not just you alone", where a chandelier adorns the picture in the center, comes from an earlier phase of work. Even if the native Italian, who has lived in Vienna for over twelve years, discovered the chandelier as a striking classicist style element of Austrian living culture earlier, the juxtaposition with the swinging Parma ham is more an ironic positioning of a cultural (or culinary) confrontation to read two different ways of life ...
For Michela Ghisetti, the paintings are essentially "light images" that are created through meditative and repetitive painting of the white spheres of light. They symbolize the existing potential energies or resources of the human being, which constitute his essence when they are not buried. In them the artist develops new energy fields that have an effect on herself and on the world. Mag. Andrea Helbach
MICHELA GHISETTI
Born in Bergamo / Italy in 1966 1988-96 studied painting and graphics, Accademia Carrara die Belli Arti, Bergamo; Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Lives and works in Vienna
Solo exhibitions
1995 Ulunando, Cafe Wortner, Wien
1997 Galerie Kunstgrün, Wien
1998 Galerie Linea 70, Verona
2001-02 Kunsträume Vincent, Wien
2004 Galerie in der Praxis, Wien
Group exhibitions
1996 Öesterreichisches Tabak-Museum, Wien
1997 Gedenkstätte KZ Mauthausen Galerie Kunstgrün, Wien
1998 Galerie Hilger, Wien; Kupferstichkabinett der Akademie Wien
1999 Galerie Van de Loo;München
2001 Junge Figuren; Galerie 422, Gmunden
2002 Grenz.Kunst, Zistersdorf; artposition 2002;Soho in Ottakring, Wien
2004 Galerie art position; Wasserturm, Wien
2005 Galerie 422, Gmunden
Prices / purchases:
1997-2001 Kulturamt der Stadt Wien 1998 Kupferstichkabinett der Akademie Wien 2003 Bundeskanzleramt Wien
