Monica Terrani & Luca Mommarelli

MONICA TERRANI

Born in Varallo at the foot of Monte Rosa near Milan, Italy, she is both Swiss and Italian.

As the Piedmont region designates an artistic heritage composed of an impressive number of masterpieces accumulated over centuries, her country of origin is an advantage and serves as a great inspiration since her youngest age.

Later, when Monica arrived to Switzerland, she joined the School of Fine Arts of Valais and then pursued a Master’s degree at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. Monica works in several media.

She has exhibited in multiple galleries in Switzerland and Europe and has participated in various official competitions. Her works are part of private collections in Europe and the USA. Monica has lived and worked in Geneva since 1985 and runs successfully her own art school.

Her work is an intense research on light and vibrations. What she seeks to express are those impalpable sensations that everyday life is full of. This is why Monica’s painting is evocative rather than descriptive, a mixture of dreams and reality that aims to bring the same emotions that she has experienced in first person and that are at the origin of the creative act.

Her painting inspires elegance and embodies an ideal of beauty through clarity, harmony and

and noble subjects.

“Life is the art of cultivating beauty

LUCA MOMMARELLI

Born in Florence 23-08-1964

Lives and works in Florence

Profession Sculptor

Luca Mommarelli was born in 1964 in S.Spirito, a Florentine neighborhood well known for its artisans. It was by visiting their stores that he learned the most varied techniques and took his first steps in the world of art. Luca has made it clear from the beginning that his natural way of expressing himself is through woodcarving.

Luca studied in Florence and works mainly in wood.

The first prizes came to him thanks to the Splinters-Sculptures, characters of the Flemish call whose main characteristics are an intense and vivid expressiveness. The interventions on wood, apart from a careful cleaning, are rather minimal, aiming to emphasize the movement and the natural twists, the play of the veins, the color or the light reflections on a certain surface.

But a tireless curiosity leads him to a continuous evolution and since recent years his interest and his searches they concentrate on a sphere of more intimate existence. In the recent sculptures, the interventions on the material have been made more decisive: engraving and shaping the wood, Luca digs in the interiority of the man, made of wounds and scars but also of

strength, inexhaustible capacity to regenerate and disarm beauty. His works are a tribute to life in continuous evolution, they are born of emotion and want to transmit and arouse emotion.

His sculptures are a sensation in the most prestigious Italian decoration magazines such as Living next to the works of Maurizio Cattelan.