Carla Volpati | artista

Carla Volpati

an artistic journey shaped through artworks and poetic texts, where nature, matter and memory become images, colours and words

artistic work

fragments of nature, witnesses to ancient memories, dialogue with traces of lived experience, memories and sensations

Carla Volpati, Inabox, wooden box with turquoise background, natural and artificial elements

Abstract composition on a light background with fragments of nature and resin forms

Composition from the Inabox series on a lilac background with natural and artificial elements

Artwork from the Inabox series with tile fragments and synthetic materials

In ascolto (Listening), artwork by Carla Volpati with a blue and grey geometric background and natural elements arranged in sequence

C’era una volta (Once upon a time), panel with small objects and natural elements on a textured background in dawn colours

Sulla via del ritorno (On the Way Back), mixed-media work on a red background with paper inserts and natural elements

Artwork by Carla Volpati from the Made in Italy series with tile fragments and small personal keepsakes

the art of words

between visual expression and poetics: essential forms and writing meet in the rhythm of haiku

linea d’ombra –
le gocce della brina
sugli anemoni

shadow line –
drops of frost
on the anemones

calura estiva –
un solo papavero
nell’erba incolta

summer heat –
a single poppy
in the wild grass

lungo il fiume –
spinta dalla corrente
un’altra foglia

along the river –
carried by the current
another leaf

ordito e trama –
con il blu s’intrecciano
i rami nudi

warp and weft –
the bare branches entwine
with the blue

Terra emersa (Emerged Land), small natural elements arranged in a vertical sequence, dark shadows and a light background

Memoria (Memory), artwork with fragments of nature arranged in a horizontal sequence

Tramonto (Sunset), work on cardboard with fragments of nature along a horizontal line, red shadows and a grey background

Incontro (Encounter), artwork by Carla Volpati with natural elements on a light grey background

biography

Carla Volpati was born in Como in 1954. Towards the end of the 1990s, she began a personal creative journey, which developed independently and continuously.

Her early works are characterised by the use of natural elements — small stones, pebbles and fragments — arranged in sequence on soft, rarefied colour backgrounds. In the following years, the initial compositional rigour gave way to new forms, stronger interventions on the colour of the background, and a wider range of materials, both natural and artificial.

In 2010, she created the cycle Made in Italy, inspired by the discovery of fragments of tiles marked with the well-known English expression identifying the Italian origin of a product. These fragments are interwoven with objects belonging to the personal sphere: small memories linked to stone and pebbles, repositories of a more ancient memory.

In the following years, she worked on the series In fila per sette (Lined up in sevens), Puppet, Inabox and Infolia, continuing to develop her expressive language between legacies of the past and the sensibility of the present.

More recently, she has approached Japanese poetic forms, particularly haiku and haibun, finding in the short form a continuity with her attention to nature and to the emotions suggested by the visual image.