Federica Luzzi’s  Statement

My artistic research deals with nature; in particular, leaves, and bark. But above all, I am fascinated by the seeds of plants; their pods. This is why I entitle my works Shell, the English equivalent for the Italian “conchiglia”, conch. Shell evokes innumerable meanings centralized on the linguistic valence of covering, when shapes shut themselves up: carapace, cuirass, frame, carcass, skeleton, projectile, appearance, scale. These small and sinuous shapes assure seeds dimensional mobility from the tree and vital capacity of shutting themselves for long periods of time until the moment they mysteriously wake up: the seeds are like “sleeper beauties”.

I consider the use of the vertical loom similar to the process of growth of a plant: slow, from the low to the high, in all directions. Shapes are created organically from their internal side. The vertical loom and the art of tapestry are tools allowing me to work vegetal fibers from their frame to three-dimensionality.

Federica Luzzi’s  Biography

Federica Luzzi is a textile artist living and working in Italy, Rome. She graduated from the Department of History of Industrial and Decorative Arts of MA University of Studies “La Sapienza” in Rome. Federica has taken workshops and studied figurative and abstract tapestry art with many important tapestry artists in Bucharest, Bruxelles, Warsaw, Italy. She specialized in three-dimensional textile design with Judit Droppa in Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest.

Federica teaches Tapestry Art in “Saint James” Civic School of Art & Craft and has lectured at University of Studies “Tor Vergata.

She has exhibited her tapestries in national and international competitions.