Effimera – Donatella Ceria

“Because the heart has reasons that reason doesn’t understand”: it is around this motto that Donatella Ceria constructs her expressive investigations made up of materials and forms, colours and vivacity of sentiment and vision. For the first time, the Grasce room of the Sant’Agostino Church Complex exhibits this artist’s creativity with “Effimera” from October 1 to 16, with works that give a figurative voice to her reflections on the everyday, on man’s passions and fragility.

 “Effimera” reflects the apparent solidity of materials transformed into art: pieces of wood found in workshops, abandoned, broken, and steeped in mud, or fragments of plastic bleached by the sun and fragile pieces of ceramic. “As in life they seem to indicate one certainty alone, death – the artist states – they are the today that crumble in the uncertainty of tomorrow, the past that recaptures a future moment, the tradition that doesn’t want to die and re-presents itself in new forms”.

Short biography
Donatella Ceria Pirina was born in Piemonte, but has long lived in Sardegna. She works as an art teacher, but has also developed a special relationship with art in many different and original ways. She has known how to couple her natural artistic talents with an exceptional creativity that has allowed her to range her interests from works made using different materials to painting, from creations using lathes to the manual character of the elaborations in papier-mâché and terracotta, from the symbolism of the Giocart to the freedom of artistic interpretation of painting and design.