Maybe we are still living in that trance in which we do not want to see what it is in front of our eyes, opting to live a life of ignorance and blindness under the protection of the few neon lights bulbs glowing from our smartphone. Ilaria Novelli is one of those few and outstanding artists that dare to turn off the illusion and tune in the now.
Ilaria “Ila Pop” Novelli is an Italian multi-disciplinary artist; she uses different media, from oil painting to digital techniques to create a dollesque and disturbing universe. In the line of those visions developed by those hidden creators such as the late Henry Darger or Stu Mead, Novelli unfolds to us a colorful world inhabited by willowy and doe-eyed figures who exchange roles from victim to perpetrator in a constant play that inspires on classical and modern art compositions. Ilaria is aware the world we live immersed in: an ever-lasting sense of screened future, full of information and constant visual stimulus. Many of the characters of her pieces represent the delirious extreme of such premises. Songs’ lyrics and heroes/villains from underground literature and cinema play an important role as inspiration too. Through Ilaria Novelli’s art is an ongoing project generating a private mythology and language, for some dark and magical reason it become universal, forcing the viewers to develop a critical analysis of the cultural and social values that the modern human condition is offering to the new and old generations.
“I consider eroticism allegorical and symbolic, it leads to our nature both in a human and in an eternal/ethereal form, my take on the erotic element is always innocent and spontaneous rather than sexualized and uninhibited. Eroticism and obsession in art are always metaphors, they are part of an intimate and private mythology. I should write an excruciatingly long list of my major influences: I took inspiration mostly from writers and film directors.” -Ila Pop
Maybe we are still living in that trance in which we do not want to see what it is in front of our eyes, opting to live a life of ignorance and blindness under the protection of the few neon lights bulbs glowing from our smartphone. Ilaria Novelli is one of those few and outstanding artists that dare to turn off the illusion and tune in the now.
Leonardo Casas > TinyStar magazine
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