Biographical Notes
Gilda Gubiotti was born in Palermo and she lives and works in this city. As a budding artist she worked under the guidance of the established artists Michele Dixit Domino and Albano Rossi. As a young artist she applied her talent to handcraft creating Jewellery, fabric design and theatrical costumes.
In 1978, during a short stay in Milan, where she met masters such as Umberto Lilloni and Michele Cascella, she became fascinated by their lyrical representation of Nature. Following this encounter Gubiotti started painting the woods, gardens and Sicilian landscapes. In her penetrating images of the lush and verdant or the bleak and sun-scorched landscapes, she has captured the essence of their nature presenting their beauty in her work. In recent times she is focusing her research on the representation of our planet, the whole Earth as seen from space or closer up as seen from a plane.Since 1999, Gilda Gubiotti's works have been exhibited in many prestigious art events both nationally and internationally. In 2000 she took part at the Art Expo in New York; in 2003 at the International Salon Louvre Pyramid in Paris, and in 2004 at the II International Salon in Paris and in the International Salon Cantieri Culturali in Palermo, and the International Salon City Gallery in Enna. Reviews of her works had been published in some of the most important print publications and her works are sought after by private collectors.
Her paintings are on display in public places, such as the Engineering Department of Palermo University, the main offices of the Tourist Board for the Sicilian Region, the Regional Province of Palermo, the Monumental Complex Guglielmo II in Monreale (province of Palermo), the G.Mazzullo Foundation in Taormina (province of Messina), and the Museum Park of Art Foundation in S. Giovanni La Punta (province of Catania). They are also featured as part of the décor for the Costa Atlantica Cruiser and the Costa Mediterranea Cruiser and in the homes of many private collectors.Her works have received gratifying reviews from the following art critics: Giovanni Cappuzzo, Francesco Carbone, Vilma Costa, Aldo Gerbino, Christian Germak, Benedetto Patera, Albano Rossi, Pino Schifano and Renato Tomasino.
Artist's thoughts
According to the artist, his last work is always the best, that’s why he never stops painting in search of the perfection
It has to hoist the sails of hope at the bow so that our anxieties will act as a wake aft
The art is something that you feel inside and to fully express it, it is necessary to look, to observe, to perceive the essence of things
When I look to a piece of art that I like I would contemplate it for hours. I would like that someone would feel the same emotion looking at my paintings
Sometimes it happens that in my paintings someone can see more than I wanted to say and I am amazed |