Gloria Campriani Studio: via Sicilia, 44 50052 Certaldo (Fi) mobile: +39 347 64 19 142 www.gloriacampriani.com gloriacampriani@katamail.com CF: CMPGLR62M52C540I P.IVA: 06014530486 "The interpretation of a weaving in social relations. A social texture built with threads and their interlacements. A message of rebirth from our hard times …”

An artist who has chosen natural and synthetic fibres to express herself.
From the Fibre Art to a new Mixed Media: Gloria Campriani.

Gloria Campriani’s studio is situated in Certaldo, where she was born and grew up, and where the textile enterprise of her family is situated. This was the environment that formed and guided her choice of utilizing yarn as one of the principal mediums for her work. Being familiar with this medium has smoothed the way for improving her artistic capacities.
A keen student of the different expressive techniques related to specific artistic languages, she soon abandoned oils to dedicate herself to other techniques, mainly working with recycled materials. Further she attended courses at various art academies, amongst which a painting course at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence.
After a careful analysis based on a comparison of various materials, she finally chose thread as the most suitable material for her particular expressive style. Furthermore her origins, linked to the textiles sector, brought her into close contact with Textile Art or Fibre Art, from which she has taken her inspiration, in the most modern meaning of this word. She does not make use of any tools but her hands in order to create her works.
Her artistic language includes three different techniques: the first two, in chronological order, can be included under the various techniques of Fibre Art that are self supporting without the use of glue or adhesive. In this case, the artist can be defined as a true weaver or artist weaver. The materials used in her artworks are various, including cork, bark or tree trunks that highlight a fundamental relationship with Nature. In fact, the artist does not use other than her hands, to create her interlacements. This natural element, imprisoned in the canvas becomes the protagonist of the entire scene, together with the thread that ties it and displays it. Sometimes, the fibre is manipulated to obtain differing emotional characteristics. The thread is not used as such and its use is only an excuse to take it into consideration. The artist manipulates threads only when the material does not respond to her needs. Even…a Swallow’s Nest is made from Fibres and Clay, and From the Textile Art to a new Mixed Media: Gloria Campriani are educational videos which take inspiration from this concept. In all her artworks, the artist uses acrylic colours and stucco with which she links, fixes and shades. 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.
Her innovative and complex technique suits her – her experience and skill – and is mainly based on the use of threads and acrylic colours to express male and female emotions. This new artistic language talks about the solitude and the psychological unease of our day, about a well-balanced relationship with nature for the survival of our planet, about the social transformation and about the union (in the sense of love) through the use of threads that join together, intertwine, interlace and bind. A visual interpretation of a weaving of social relationships. A social texture made up of threads and their interlaced links. A spiritual message that expresses a strong desire for a reawakening from contemporary hard times.
Gloria Campriani has always collaborated with artists and researchers, and experimented. A tenacious and extremely dynamic character, at the same time severe and creative. Her art exhibitions – personal and collective – videos, artistic installations, performances, addresses on Fibre Art and art teaching activity take place in town-halls, schools, universities, art galleries and museums (Museo Marino Marini di Pistoia, Museo Nazionale di Palazzo Reale di Pisa, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Firenze, and Museo Piaggio in Pontedera). She promotes Fibre Art spreading the awareness of her new artistic and pictorial language, through videos and debates, in order to stimulate also new artistic experimentations. Her works of art can be found in the following catalogues, carrying also reviews: Un Filo per matita, Carlo Cambi Editore, April 2008, ed. Mauro Civai, Sandra Landi and Maurizio Vanni. Radici, gli Artisti per Michelucci, Settegiorni Editore, June 2008, ed. Siliano Simoncini. Angoli d’Arte, Edizioni Polistampa, September 2008, ed. Siliano Simoncini. Un Filo per Segno, dal Tappeto all’Arte Contemporanea, February 2009, ed. Alberto Boralevi, Shhh…Rumori di Artista, Bandecchi & Vivaldi, December 2009, ed. Ilario Luperini and Siliano Simoncini.