AVAILABLE ARTWORKS BY ANA SEGGIARO
The Anatomy Series
Seggiaro's fascination for the human body, for the movement of the muscles, the bone structure, and the circulatory system coexists perfectly with the arteries of red linen, with the spills of silk and the textile vapors that Seggiaro infuses into these open bodies.
In her series, the thread plays multiple roles and acquires different meanings. On his characters, the embroidery sometimes resembles a surgical seam or becomes the circulatory system of a dissected body, a fantastic intervention capable of reviving the exhumed bodies of the Dutch anatomist Bernhard Sigfried Albinus.
Durero series
Ana Seggiaro's training as an engraver awakened her fascination for the works of Durero and Piranesi. This leads her both to recover the language of engraving itself through other media and to appropriate and dialogue with the works of these artists. This conversation, however, does not start from a solemn, pristine, or untouchable place, but from the recognition of her virtues, thus allowing her to operate, rebuild, eliminate, and retouch fragments to compose her own work. Starting from pre-existing works of hers, Seggiaro builds a kind of mimicry of the original pieces in an exercise of visual reconstruction that she uses as a structure for her production. But the works are just that, states altered by her gaze that resemble, without repeating, the original piece.
The Piranesi Series
The ambitious exercise of working with techniques such as large-format embroidery only exacerbates the perfection of detail through the change of scale. What was once the page of a book is transformed to bring the dimension of the minuscule closer to the observer. This arouses curiosity and evokes primordial feelings that oscillate between existential anguish, the passage of time, life, death, intimacy and eroticism.
The Cartographies Series
In the mid-2000s, Ana Seggiaro made her first small-scale collage works on paper. Starting from pages of books, maps, and scores, she carries out the first series intervened through embroidery and painting. In these works she finds the universe of cartography, using maps as supports for the construction of imaginary geographies. This search leads her to tackle larger works. Thus, she recovers old school maps worn by use, where the black rubber acquires a broken texture, generating a topography like that of skin dried by the sun. She intervenes in these maps with abstract figures and images of paper airplanes that fly over unknown landscapes.
The Partituras Series
Seggiaro is part of the textile field in an unconventional way, from a non-technical but expressive approach. In exchange, he obtains freedom of action from the needle that allows him to tie, knot, leave half-sewn stitches, and generate volume through the thread. In this way, she makes use of non-traditional uses of embroidery that respond to a more plastic than textile thought.
The Books Series
The ambitious exercise of working with techniques such as large-format embroidery only exacerbates the perfection of detail through the change of scale. What was once the page of a book is transformed to bring the dimension of the minuscule closer to the observer. This arouses curiosity and evokes primordial feelings that oscillate between existential anguish, the passage of time, life, death, intimacy and eroticism.
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ANA SEGGIARO
REPRESENTED ARTIST
Ana Seggiaro is a multidisciplinary artist whose work bridges geographical and temporal divides, creating a dialogue between diverse cultures and historical contexts. Drawing inspiration from classical engravings by masters such as Albrecht Dürer, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, and Bernhard Albinus, Seggiaro reinterprets European art traditions, infusing them with her own unique embroidered mark. Her creative process is both meticulous and layered: she begins by researching historical imagery, which she then digitally reconfigures into intricate collages that form the basis of each piece. The final compositions are printed on fine art canvas, where they are further enriched with delicate hand embroidery and, more recently, vibrant painting. This interplay of traditional and contemporary techniques reflects her dynamic artistic evolution—from a foundation in painting to a broader embrace of diverse materials and media, allowing her to craft works that are both visually compelling and deeply evocative. She holds a degree in Drawing and Engraving from the Prilidiano Pueyrredón National School of Fine Arts, where she graduated in 1988, laying the groundwork for a career dedicated to exploring the boundaries of art and culture.