Teresa Mazza is an Italian artist born in Dortmund and currently living in Messina.
After graduating from classical high school, she cultivated various interests that led her to explore the world of art, its languages and different expressive potentials.
An eclectic, ever-evolving artist, her creative journey began with studies in Photography, Video, Computer graphics advertising and fashion accessory creation.
She participates actively in the cultural life of her town, coming into contact with artists of different disciplines – painting, sculpture, music, theatre – native to the area or from various European countries.
In the first phase of her artistic research – analog B&W Fine Art photography – is the focus of intense technical and stylistic investigation that produces a synthesis of classical lyricism and new aesthetic visions. The artist uses photography to narrate and write with light, arousing intense emotions and conveying universal concepts. Her “abstract” way of photography prefers subjects that are non-historical and outside human logic. In this regard, in her work “Lights and Shadows,” portraying the shadow means: bringing forth a restlessness of looking at something that one can neither touch nor look at directly. The subject shadow emerges as the poetic key to these works and brings originality to the language in photography and visual field in general.
Subsequently, her artistic production was enriched by a series of portraits of artists: a psychological investigation work of intense expressiveness, aimed at capturing the deep and individual human essence of each of them.
The creative investigation continues in an unconventional way of experimentation with various media with the intent to produce a reflection on form and art itself as a cognitive process. Her classical background meets technology in the “H2O” series in which graphics and photography dialogue with each other redesigning a decisive landing place for digital art. Two research paths, one scientific-physical and one geometric, overlap: light, energy and instant appear in detail as a deep sea. A microcosm is revealed, showing within, images of absolute significance.
Thus, a need arose to further explore the points of contact between different languages, and in an alien and new space, every colour, every curve, every shape can appear…
Her works, in succession, are structured with grids, fractals, offline landscape and architecture, assembled in classical geometries. The drive for innovation leads her to elegantly unhinge the reminders of diversity between graphics, photography and painting, humanizing the gap between figure and abstract, opting with insight and without preconceptions for expression tout court and preserving the emotions of art.
