BIOGRAPHY
ENRICA BADAS, PAINTER
Born in Cagliari, on 07/23/1968, where she currently lives and works. She has always drawn and painted, she perfects and broadens her technical knowledge thanks to her frequentation of artists’ workshops, her studies take her away from her passion and she becomes a lawyer.
From 2012 she resumes her artistic path, temporarily leaves the oil and experiments with the use of acrylic colors, which she prefers both for their matte finish and for their quick drying, which is better suited to the immediacy of his technique, arrives at a her style which she herself defines as “anthropomorphic abstract” in which the human figure, both in its entirety and in part of it, becomes an opportunity to represent and convey messages that are sometimes explicit and sometimes enigmatic. Her work becomes more and more abstract, she experiments with the use of simple but iconic objects such as razor blades which she reproduces on canvas with acrylic colors, creating shapes that recall the most intimate and spiritual human story.
She rediscovers the figurative, the images portrayed become interpreters, symbols and metaphor to convey messages and, the painting is spontaneous, immediate but not random, the colors are intense as are the brushstrokes, this cycle of works evolves and the poetry composed by her penetrates the ‘pictorial work in a creative process that develops in parallel in which the pictorial image is inspired by the poetic composition as the poetic composition by the image, arriving at a personal style that she herself defines poetic neo-expressionism in which the artist still continues its production.
In the covid-19 period she develops a new project inspired by home isolation entitled “Women’s faces! Which for the moment has culminated in over 100 digital portraits, a cycle still evolving and in reality hypothetically infinite in which she experiments with a new artistic language, starts from images captured in her travels, in daily life, from newspapers, magazines, books, however, of women who strike her and become a canvas, on which she paints on a digital screen with her fingers or with the aid of an apple pencil, up to bring out another woman, this constitutes for the artist his own manifesto for female art. Then once printed on different supports (aluminum dibond, canvas, foam …) the artist intervenes on some details with acrylics. She continues her experimentation in digital painting starting to work on sunsets and dawns always starting from her photos on which he intervenes with digital painting then once printed on canvas she paints acrylic and oil on some details ..
Collective exhibitions
-2020 exhibited the work “Suspended lives” at the collective exhibition “Italian Renaissance” organized by the Mazzoleni Foundation at the exhibition halls, in via Locatelli, 1 in Alzano Lombardo (BG)
-2017 exhibited the works “ROUTS IN THE SOUL” and “ILLUSIONE” at the MAAGMA Museum in Villacidro Sardinia, during the 2017 MARKET ART FAIR
-2015 he participated with the work “L’anima di Castello” in the painting and sculpture competition as well as in the connected collective exhibition “Per Castello” Palazzo Regio, Piazza Palazzo n. 1 Cagliari
-2012 he exhibited the work “F 1793” at the collective exhibition of the “Per Castello” Palazzo Regio, piazza Palazzo n. 1 Cagliari;
AWARDS and COMPETITIONS
-2021 the work “The ride of your life” was selected in phase 1 and 2 of the “MARCHIONNI PRIZE 2021” painting section, the work W.F. Model 86 was selected in phase 1 of the same prize in the painting section, the work “Experiment 2” in the graphic section of the same prize and the work W.F. Model 85 in the Rosso Passione section;
-2020 the work “Nuragical Metropolis” was selected in phase 1 of the “MARCHIONNI PRIZE 2020” painting section
-2020 the work “Experiment 1” was selected as part of the “MARCHIONNI PRIZE 2020 – graphic section”
-2017 the work “ROUTS IN THE SOUL” was selected as part of the “MARCHIONNI PRIZE 2017 – painting section”
