"The symbolism of Elena Vijoli's works' expresses itself through the contrast between
a precise, minimal economy of the sign and a continuos research on technique and matter,
which is put into concrete form by the use of materials such as stone, glass, leather and
different types of metals. Vijoli's minimal sign and material
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"The symbolism of Elena Vijoli's works' expresses itself through the contrast between
a precise, minimal economy of the sign and a continuos research on technique and matter,
which is put into concrete form by the use of materials such as stone, glass, leather and
different types of metals. Vijoli's minimal sign and material redundancy are continuously
counter chanting, and that gives her the possibility to find a proper harmony of the
opposites: the lightness of the divine message emerges in the purest works such as
"Lessons from God" or "Apocryphal Writings", while the irony and love for the heaviness
of human things explode in works such as "Family" and "Brainstorming". The personal
liberation from the obsession with "the perfect painting", which is well represented in
the artist's formative path by the many years spent in important Orthodox churches and
monasteries, is the ultimate aim of Vijoli’s pictorial game. A game which is grounded in
biblical references ("The Way, the Truth and the Life") and little daily struggles and
pleasures ("Making Love with the Wind"); a game whose rules are there to help us in our
exploration of the wonders of an apparently alien garden that, on the contrary, is human,
all too human." ... hide article
"Elena Vijoli's use of matter is meant by the artist to translate her visions into images of passions
and glancing encounters, unexpected getaways, and meditations on time. The art of Vijoli reveals through a bare,
essential painting her need to go beyond matter in order to grasp the
essence of things, digging deeply into the nucleus of the endless cells that compose the world."