Sabrina Golin – Painted whispers of beauty

The contemporary art scene has often been tantalised by the male Genius. Female artists have been overshadowed by cultural and social prejudices. However, the Renaissance ‘Power of  Women’s topos is an urgent reality in the art realm than ever before.

 

Sabrina Golin is one of the most impressive Italian contemporary examples of a female artist. Born and raised in Johannesburg, she kept her Italian heritage throughout her artistic career working in more than one single technique: drawing and painting with vitrea colours on glass, steel and plexiglass. Sabrina Golin, the eclectic painter, as she timidly recalls herself, seems coming out of her oniric creations: her delicate face, her disarming smile, her elegant look remind us of that romantic sense of beauty.

 

Like in the sixteenth, seventeenth or eighteenth-century painting, the artist would unify the most beautiful parts in a single idealised image, Golin‘strokes are painted ‘whispers’ of Beauty. She has mastered her innovative technique after discovering it by chance. One day her mother asked her to fix broken glass. She created out of her imagination a wonderful work of art. This was the beginning of an endless search for aesthetic perfection through painting. After mastering painting on glass, which is one of the most challenging techniques, she conquered canvas and plexiglass.

 

Time stops… memories flow.. while her colourful brushstrokes awake her African free spirit in the viewer’s soul: zebras, tigers, lions bounce back from a ‘Caravaggesque’ black and bright plexiglass backgrounds shaped by the transparent myriad of sparkling pearls. Her search for perfection through the combination of colour drives her desire to capture every known aspect of feminine allure in an attempt to exhaust the inexhaustible subject of beauty.

 

And which theme would have been more appropriate than portraying the incarnation of female Beauty, if not the Geisha, ‘geiko’, ‘woman of art’? Sabrina Golin’s style, reminiscent from the great samurai artists who were trained from the Kano-school painting in the 17th century, portrays elongated oval faces dressing them with sumptuous and elaborated ‘furisode’(long-sleeved) kimonos lightly brushed eyes, three-dimensionally appliqués of flowers filled by a myriad of pearls.

 

Golin’ s fine and accurate brushwork enhance the ‘Power of (every) Woman’ through their feminism beauty and career which unites but at the same time differs in every woman, in every geisha, in every diva. The broken glass pieces which made Sabrina Golin start her epitome search of truth within beauty become indeed every woman’s metaphor: any broken pieces which we encounter are only to mend us in becoming the woman we wish to be.

 

Sabrina Golin has exhibited in several exhibitions throughout the most important Europe cities: London, Paris, Madrid, Vienna and Milano. She is now working for the July exhibition together with the Art Director Giuseppe Spina and Lele Mora for the Verona Palazzo Orti Manara in July 2020.

 

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by Carolina Conforti – Art Advisor & Art Historian