BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1987 in a town on a hill near the Adriatic Sea called Osimo (AN), Perla Mignanelli starts showing her interest in the art world since the nursery school. Drawings, colours and shapes become her tools to express her imagination and her creativity. Following her artistic sensibility, Perla attends the secondary art school G. Cantalamessa, in Macerata, from where she gets her certificate in 2006. In the fall of the same year, she decides to enroll to the Academy of Fine Arts in Macerata. In 2010, a dissertation entitled “I miei occhi, il tuo corpo, il mio sguardo, la tua anima” (My eyes, your body, my gaze, your soul) leads her to her BA degree in decoration. Two years later, “Il mio diario della moda” (My fashion diary) work, secures her MA degree in decoration.
Perla starts exhibiting in 2008 in Italy and in 2016 in London, city where she is currently based.
Her works have several dimensions and painting techniques and the chosen frames accurately reflect her imagination and creativity. All around her is a piece of art, not only nature becomes a boundless source of inspiration, but also architecture, fashion, photography and design. There is no contingency, every single detail is minutely treated and risen from experiences, memories, living moods and well aware studies. Perla is addicted to colour and its shades, to lights and shadows. White is not always white and black can be something different with its various nuances. Geometrical patterns become flowers, spirals and round figures create faces and bodies. Each single element is surrounded by the distinctive everlasting sentimentalism of the Italian art.
“The paint brush is my tool to communicate to the world, I couldn’t express myself without painting” says Perla, who also describes herself as a mainly portrait artist. Her women are depicted with a dark perspective, teetering possibly on high hells to balance between chaos and order. She chooses a stark black background to set a scene of drama and intrigue. Her women are cubist vamp-like goddesses or divas, reminiscent of faded Hollywood glamour. There is a “funeral-like” sense to the work, complete with monochromatic bouquets of flowers.
Her technique matches daily objects with natural or fantastical elements in order to develop the perfect idea. A gothic air, punchy subjects and confident decorative scroll work are not dissimilar to the work of many tattoo parlours.
Perla completes our soul-searching expedition for female artistic validation through looking outside yourself in nature, to coming in out of the cold to going deeper into self-exploration of your inner nature to view what ‘lurks beneath’. Whether you see yourself in context of your surroundings, through a stylised view of personhood or as a glamorous movie star, surely she would agree that to pursue an intent study of navel-gazing, it at least should be pierced.