Art that in Dalila is expressed in the ability to create invisible planes and points of contact between the visible world and alien curiosities but mixed to make each work a singular narrative epicenter in which the refined technique of the author transforms inert raw material into incredibly empathetic episodes. Two dragonflies that mate generating the iconic enclosure of a heart, a small silver mantis on a base of rough wood and another gigantic and hyperrealistic one whose apparent heaviness rests on slender legs, butterflies kissing the Serpottian white of resinated faces, frames of faces squared and assembled in an elegant and dynamic mass that from sculpture becomes a 3D painting.

And then there is still that dimension of seductive musicality governed by the maniacal attention to detail of nature, that careful study animated by curiosity that makes her eyes shine, the awareness of creating something that was not there shortly before and that nature designs and creates by ploughing through her artist’s hands because without it, she cannot do it.

All this is present and expressed in the form of sculptural matter in the desire to make physical, real, subject to weight, that speed made thought, in a constant and at times spiritual relationship between natural and artificial, between detail and wholeness, in which it is the artist’s thought that holds the secret of things, built from matter but above all immaterial and powerful, a condition intercepted by critics that led her to win the 2015 Italian Art Award, sculpture section curated by Vittorio Sgarbi in Varedo.

Works therefore as an extension of her own dynamic thought capable of “speaking” without the noise of words, in the speed of the creative gesture, in the sensuality of the sinuous harmony of animal forms, shaped through the constant and free effort of experimenting with technique and materials, aspirations, study and the indispensable “knowing how to see” beyond.
Beyond things, beyond the patina, beyond even the most secret and less visible aspirations.

And here Dalila, under the umbrella of a lowered vault decorated with Liberty motifs of what rightly appears to be the workshop of Salvatore Gregorietti, embodies that total and brief motto of Paul Klee that wants the artist not to show the visible, but to make the artistic material visible for all of us curious. Dalila, you can meet her and observe her at work on Saturday 18 June on the occasion of the exhibition “Ogni artista è un’isola” curated by Giuseppe Carli and promoted by the Raffaello Art Gallery in via Notarbartolo n.9, 10-00/13.00 and 16.30/19.30.