Biography
Francesca Romana Mainieri was born in Rome, where she presently lives and works.
After the completion of Humanistic Studies she achieves the Master’s degree in Art History (AM) in La Sapienza University of Rome, with Maurizio Calvesi and she has been Art Historian and Conservator at Istituto Superiore per il Restauro.
She paints abstract surfaces that recall suggestions from the traditional pictorial matter and from the metal corrosion.
She makes use of classical techniques (such as powder pigments, egg tempera, linseed oil, metal leaves) and modern techniques (acrylics, enamels)
In her painting she expresses interiorized archetype images of western painting.
Such images emerge from the observation of tactile and visual properties of materials, from the organization of visual space and from the seductiveness of color. To obtain chromatic layers, she sometime uses the technique of glazing with colored varnishes and transparent lacquers, typical of the Flemish School.
From the approach to eastern art comes her recent interest in the relationship between colours in Chinese and Japanese Art and Calligraphy.
After an intensive use of the squared shape as representation of perspective space, she approaches to round shapes, defined 'Seals', as symbol of a cosmic space.
