Mariella BETTINESCHI's Piumari [Feather boxes] was one of the artist’s first series to give voice to her ongoing interest and research into alternative languages: the ability to transform and create new ways of thinking with our own breath and further illustrating women’s ability to bring life into the world. 

 

Elegant, minimal boxes containing loose feathers, suspended beneath a thin layer of organza belying their volatile nature, their place easily changed by the viewer with just a breath or a movement. The ability to transform the shape of the work, and thus the meaning, was integral to Bettineschi’s practice and research. 

Mariella BETTINESCHI (b. 1948) has probed, through different methods and materials, the possible relationships with reality, focusing particular attention to women’s condition, through a multidisciplinary approach dedicated to painting, sculpture, architecture. Photography and digital image have played a crucial role for her, thanks to their possibility of manipulation. After finishing art school in 1970, she graduated from the Giacomo Carrara Academy of Fine Arts in Bergamo. In 1988 she participated in the 43^rd Edition of the Venice Biennale, and one year later she moved to Berlin, where she worked until 1995. She currently lives and works in Bergamo, Italy.