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Micaela Lattanzio

Italian photographer and artist Micaela Lattanzio’s work explores the fragmentation and reconstruction of female identity. She begins by taking a photograph, typically a portrait, which she then cuts into mostly abstract pieces. The pieces are pinned together on canvas, creating fascinating dimensions and shadows.

It is perhaps not surprising that while studying art in her home of Rome, Lattanzio first began working with mosaics. She later moved on to photography, but it wasn’t until she got the idea to combine the two media that her work really came together.

“In my work, there isn’t boundary between painting and photography, they are the expression of the same face, a way to describe an idea. I am a photographer, but also an artist. This is what prompted me to break up my pictures. If I look at my work under an aesthetic point of view, photographs are also pieces of a painting palette, each piece hand cut becomes an integral part of a pictorial method.”

-Micaela Lattanzio interview with Mind Mag

You can see all of Micaela Lattanzio’s work on her website and Instagram.

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Fragmenta/ . “The mosaic fragmentation is a linguistic scheme, a new idiom which allows us to read reality: this procedure "frees itself from the notion of depiction of the world, from the sterile conception of mimesis, and opens the space to a symbolic construction of the image", inaugurating the genesis of a deepest emotional synesthesia. In this journey beyond the body, Micaela Lattanzio expands the material building an abstract territoriality: a physical geography where the points of intersection are combined in the expanse of three-dimensional pieces, signs in which the viewer finds the processes of an evolution, downsizing the sexual and social roles.” . . @galleriacadoro #womanartists #womanbody #womart #womensart #womanpower #artbody #artoftheday #artecontemporanea #artworks #artgallery #nycart #artnewyork #micaelalattanzio #artistsoninstagram #artiste #curator #curatorial #socialcurator #artcollector #socialmedia #contemporaryart #contemporarycollage #contemporarycurated #thepeoplescreatives

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  1. bcparkison
    September 10, 2019 at 7:24 am

    Interesting,but my first thought was Humpty Dumpty because all of the pieces can’t be put back together again. Pin head also ran across my mind.( can you tell how very tired I am)

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  2. bcparkison
    September 10, 2019 at 11:36 am

    95 year old parents. Both in hospital,two different ones, long story . My Dad my be in the process of leaving this world which he has been trying to leave for 3 or 4 years. I blogged,after a long time of not blogging, about the thank you treats i have made. Just one of the crazy things I do that probably isn’t expected. moreinkpleaseblog.com

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  3. Laura (PA Pict)
    September 10, 2019 at 1:53 pm

    These pieces are very striking. I like the fusion between photography and other modes of creativity.

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