Laura Villani is an Italian artist who has made a name for herself with her unique and thought-provoking paintings. Born and raised in Pavia, Italy, Villani has always had a passion for art and music. After graduating from both art high school and music school, she initially decided to pursue music as a career, playing concerts with various chamber music groups. However, her artistic outlet of choice eventually became original engraving.

Villani continued her studies by attending the International Chalcography Course at the Academy of Fine Arts of Urbino and courses of Traditional Engraving and Experimental Techniques at the International School of Graphics in Venice, under the guidance of Riccardo Licata. Over the past ten years, she has devoted her entire attention exclusively to painting and drawing.

Villani's approach to her art is heavily influenced by the ideas of Italo Calvino, who wrote about the importance of "the power of bringing visions into focus with our eyes shut." She creates a minimalistic universe full of symbolism, and aims to distance herself from the common limits of space and time to create a universe that is dissipated, lightened, and slowed down, where everything can be and everything can happen.

One of the most striking aspects of Villani's work is her use of symbols and totemic sensory organs as emblems of openness to knowledge to represent mankind. She emphasizes the importance of suspension, silence, and surprise as regenerating elements that allow her to access territories where nothing is encoded and where what emerges comes from a distant but not forgotten reality.

Villani's paintings dive into the underground world that lies in the mystery of the shadow, the hidden world of the unexplained, the mystery of man, his mind, and his size. Her work is thought-provoking and often leaves the viewer with a sense of intrigue and wonder.

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