Napoleone Giulia

Giulia Napoleone was born in Pescara in 1936. In the early 1950s, to the interest for painting were added those for music, which she entertains by studying the violin, and photography. She enrolls at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and begins experimenting with engraving techniques. The central theme of these years is the “search for light” that is not reduced to a mere geometric effect, but opens to the quest for a natural evolution.

She specializes in the experimentation of engraving techniques and paper proves to be the artist’s favorite medium on which she intervenes with ink, watercolor, and pastel. In her drawings, she returns to the theme of light, no longer solar or physical, but a light that is understood as pure energy expanding in multiple directions. Hence moves the decision to limit her works to black and white, conceived as light-color, employed with minimal means and great intensity.