Colori e mestieri nelle arti multimediali.

Event organized by the Academy of fine Arts of Rome, curated by Elena Giulia Rossi.

Carolina Lombardi’s multimedia poetics, and her distinctive use of a wide range of techniques and materials, from LEDs to biological media, will be discussed in conversation with Antonella Sbrilli, Professor of Contemporary Art History at Sapienza University of Rome.

The event will offer valuable insights into how artistic practices evolve between tradition and technological innovation. In Lombardi’s case, these practices are rooted in her training as a conservator-restorer, with expertise in the reconstruction of ancient recipes for the preparation of pigments, and have developed through an artistic practice accompanied by research into certain primary materials, both mineral and vegetal, used in the creation of reticular forms, which lie at the core of her creative, scientific, and critical interests.

Particular attention will be devoted to the artist’s experience with the ancient multinucleated unicellular organism Physarum polycephalum, which she cultivated and documented through time-lapse filming in its reticular expansion and spatial optimization (video installation, 2023).