Name and Surname
Gloria Campriani

Studio
Loc. Fraille, Via Sicilia n.44 – 50052 Certaldo (Firenze) Italia

EMail / Mobile
gloriacampriani@katamail.com
(+39) 347 64 19 142

Gloria Campriani is born and raised in Certaldo, growing up in the family’s textile business.
It is this environment that will form and guide, later on, her choice of utilizing a wool yarn as one of the principal mediums in her work. Her familiarity with this particular material in fact bolsters her expressive capacities.
She goes to boarding school and graduates in Florence. In 1982 she obtains her baccalaureate in languages. Between 1982 and 1992 she attends various language courses in England and Germany. And until 2005 she works for large fashion companies collaborating with some of the major designer labels, also performing different activities in the commercial, style and marketing fields. She currently lives and works in Certaldo, where she has her studio.
Always fascinated by contemporary art, she manages to cultivate this passion alongside her professional activity attending courses at various art academies, among which a painting course taken at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Florence.



TECHNIQUES AND METHODOLOGY
A keen student of the different expressive techniques related to specific artistic languages, she soon abandons oils to dedicate herself to other techniques, mainly working with recycled materials. From the year 2000 Gloria is engaged in a personal search, focused not only on the pictorial, but mainly on the more technical and innovative aspects. After a careful analysis based on a comparison of various materials, she finally chooses the wool yarn as the media best suitable to her particular expressive style. Furthermore her work in the clothing industry brings her in close contact with Textile Art or Fibre Art.
In line with her personal philosophy which places special emphasis to ecological issues, she prefers using fibres treated with natural dies or recycled. The absorption capacities of the different fibres permit her to obtain different thicknesses and new perspectives, matching her continuous search for movement within her own work. The three-dimensionality frequently found in her work probably defines her more as a sculptress than a painter.
Her research focuses mainly on the multitude of shapes she manages to achieve through the peculiar “interweaving” of the two materials used, wool yarn and canvas, An innovative and complex technique, perfectly suited for satisfying her personal need for communication.


SYMBOLISM OF THE THREAD: PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY
The interpretation of the weave of social relationships. A social fabric made up of different threads and their interwoven ties. Threads that create and destroy today’s social system. Joint, wrapped, plaited and tied threads in contraposition to torn, broken, cut, frayed and deteriorated threads. Thus “a thread for pencil” is born, not simply research and technique, but also a real and true path, both cultural and artistic. The fibre as instrument for linguistic expression.


EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS
It is in 2007 that the need for a new cultural space arises, with the intent of creating different projects linked with art. A need to research and experiment born from the meeting, as well as the confrontation, with others. A laboratory for discussions, talks, working, studying, a place for learning but above all for growing.
Gloria Campriani takes into consideration all the different fields in which art is to be found and disseminated. She also promotes textile art, by spreading its new and innovative artistic and pictorial language. Gloria Campriani endorses various initiative in pharmaceutical research and human rights fields.

Gloria Campriani