Eugenia Vanni: Painting from the Margins

Key facts

• Eugenia Vanni was born in Siena in 1980.
• She studied at Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze and NABA in Milan.
• Her work has been exhibited at Istituto Italiano di Cultura (New York), MAN (Nuoro), MAC (Lissone), Museo Marino Marini (Firenze), Museo Villa Croce (Genova), Galleria Fuoricampo (Siena and Brussels), Museo e biblioteca internazionale della Musica (Bologna), Villa Pacchiani (Santa Croce sull'Arno), and Complesso museale Santa Maria della Scala (Siena).
• She was a visiting artist at Académie Royale des Beaux Arts in Brussels.
• She teaches painting at LABA in Florence and tutors at Istituto Marangoni in Florence.
• She co-founded Museo d'Inverno in Siena with Francesco Carone.
• Vanni's practice focuses on the insufficiency of the painted surface and the illogicality of painting.
• She uses a 'declarative formula' that emphasizes the act of making the painting.
• She considers edges and the back of the canvas crucial to the work's existence.
• Drips and accidental marks are treated as subjects in her paintings.
• The work 'Xilofagia / Xilografia #1' (2018) uses a woodblock eaten by woodworms.
• Vanni views her art as an intellectual exploration offering new possibilities for thought.