Elena Vijoli - Portable painings


Portable paintings / Paolo Cappelletti

"In this new series Vijoli remains faithful to her inquisitive nature, keeping up with her recent research and creating a new object, which indicates in its own particular way a radical reversal in the usual relationship between an audience and an artistic event: the portable painting. It is designed using the essential forms of an exclusive leather handbag, entirely handmade, which frames a little original painting. Each bag is a unique piece, exactly like the portable painting itself; and the bag too is not only carrying a painting, but its colours --both inside and outside-- are conceived in harmony with the chromatic structure of the painting itself." ... read more