The Smell Of Feet In Nylon

The Exhibition: "I do not love shopping"

Women on the Verge of a desperate search for self



NAPLES - Dreamer and disillusioned, soft and elegant, martyrs, sensual, innocent, but most desperate of their personality, are women Giulia D'Anna, on display until March 31 to Feltrinelli di Napoli.

ACKNOWLEDGING 'SEX AND THE CITY' - Twenty stories by women that the adoption of Parisian illustrator Neapolitan soul with India ink of his pen, with the force of color, balance and delicacy of his collages. Behind the title, "I do not love shopping," takes a subtle and profound as life reflection on the meaning of shopping for the modern woman, blinded by the promise of granting leave within a few blocks, ready to do anything to get in, but ends up naked to find themselves deeply, hopelessly devoid of identity. Is explicit in this regard, a critical reference to best-selling novels like "Confessions of a Shopaholic" by Sophie Kinsella, a television series like "Sex And The City" or hit movies like "The Devil Wears Prada," which, sublimating some simple everyday actions, such as shopping, offering pre-packaged bags of personality to wear at the appropriate time for women photocopy, all the same, clean, aesthetically perfect.

Real Women - Women's Giulia are real. Some of them have wide hips, others wear glasses, and still others have uncombed hair or irregular faces. They are normal women, different from one another, yet united by the search of a cliché to which belong. There is the woman who has just bought her breasts and one that leads into the shopping bag a new brain, the woman dragging a heavy bag full of expectations, like dreaming than flying light that could become disoriented and wandering in the dark with a shopping bag over his eyes. If Gustave Flaubert declared, "Madame Bovary, c'est moi!" Giulia D'Anna could say the same of his creatures explained: "There is a part of me in each of these women, otherwise I would not be able to think of them. I also subisco the charm of shopping, but most times I stop buying the imagination and I find fulfillment in this way. I walk around the shops, try a bag, a hat, I see a kitchen that I like and I can tell, look at her and then go away. "



I DO NOT LOVE SHOPPING - The exhibition thus marks an important moment for the professional artist in Naples, not only because its inauguration in Naples, but above all because, with this exhibition, which develops a long artistic research that makes a simple ink drawing, the strength of the work: "For me, design is everything because it is there that is materialized in an instant the idea - said Giulia - The same idea that I like and then decline in various forms, in different ways - and continues - Professionally I have a lot to Richard Marinelli, who helped me in research as a critical form of illustration, as an attitude disturbing. Also I think I was particularly influenced by the work of Hungarian photographer André Kertész, depicting women's bodies, deformed with the help of some mirrors, and one of his Georgian filmmaker Otar Joseliani, appreciated for the subtle irony of his film. " Published on

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