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Beatrice Eleonore Bobst (Switzerland, 1962)
After her Bachelor of Arts Degree at La Sapienza University in Rome, she graduated from the School of Restoration of the Vatican Museums with G. Colalucci.
After working on numerous restorations for the Italian Soprintendenza delle Belle Arti, she set up a working cooperative with the patronage of the EEC. She continued her training at Accademia Cignaroli with Rosabianca Cinquetti ,Giacomo Modolo and Andrea Facco.
During an iconographic research process, I encountered a photograph of an eighteenth-century engraving by John Hall depicting Venus and Adonis in a moment of harmonious dialogue.
I was particularly struck by the tenderness and emotional resonance expressed in the interaction between their faces.
Starting from this image, my intention was not to reproduce the original scene but to use it as an perceptual and emotional reference. Through layers of colors and transparency, the figures gradually merge with the surrounding space, dissolving the boundary between subject and environment.
In Inside the image, the face becomes part of the background, while shades of green permeate the entire composition