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three decades, Caroline Bergonzi has proved her multi-facet creativity
through a rich and diverse body of work, including styling for fashion
magazines, costumes, jewelry, graphic and web design, and a first creativity
educational program. Since her first art show, in 2002, she has revealed
remarkable paintings and continuously reinvented herself.
She draws from both science and spirituality igniting her passion for
the human being, in the deepest layers, the ones we all share, the essence
that bonds our diverse cultures. An artist since the earliest age, Caroline
is a confluence of traditions; combining southern European baroque black
backgrounds with the eastern passive sensuality of her silhouettes; metaphysical
elements with the sparkly glamour from her fashion experience and magnificent
body shapes.
A sensitive, curious and energetic child, she grew up under the blue Mediterranean
sky, in the Principality of Monaco. After 17 years in this peaceful and
international city, she moved to Paris, to acquire the tools she judged
necessary to preserve her freedom. Greeting the challenges of business
school & postgraduate studies in fashion management, she remained
active and blossomed in creatively opposing environments such as an underground
video games team and a major Parisian Haute Couture studio. After graduating,
she spent time in China and Italy, and chose New York as her new home,
for its human masses, rhythms, and unlimited mosaic of cultures. The brutal
reality of this new urban & mental environment encouraged a deeper
immersion in empiric philosophy, psychology and spirituality. As the angel
of the movie "Wings of Desire", she swapped her cerebral, wide
perspective for a true experience of being alive, meeting a full range
of emotions, from fear to love, including loneliness, joy, pain, pleasure
or peace. She recorded and expressed them through sketches & paintings.
As a symbolist, Caroline expresses feelings using human shapes aiming
for truth, uncovering illusions, masks, fears and manipulations, to reach
out. Thinking in terms of archetypes, her daily inspiration comes from
myths, movies, books, dreams and the empiric experience of kung fu, tango
or swimming. To her, life is all about rhythm, flux, energies. Actions
and reactions. Fusion and transformation. The yin & yang harmony of
the contrasts. The too often forgotten cycle of life, rebirth, destruction
& creation. Painting and drawing remain her favorite mediums of expression
allowing for full freedom & responsibility as an artist and to focus
a concentrated impact within the frame. Circle shapes, cocoons in squares,
squares in circles. The full intensity of an instant.
She shares her time between her Soho laboratory, CREALAB llc, and her
studio in Monaco.
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Amanda Adams-Louis |
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