Alchemical landscape for Aster - Long Beach
A poetic weaving of charming nature
Collaboration with Vida Design, a renowned interior design studio based in USA. Creation of a large tapestry (approx. 350 x 120 cm), handwoven on a vertical loom, using warp and weft in copper, combined with cords and threads hand-dyed by the artist. A piece specially realized by the artist Patrizia Polese for the living area of the Aster Luxury Apartments in Long Beach, CA.
Vegetal fabric - land art installation
“Vegetal Fabric” is an installation composed of a system of ropes stretched between the ground and trees, creating natural warp threads. Resembling colored rays of light, these weavings embrace nature’s spontaneous intervention, as leaves, climbing plants, and other ephemeral elements gradually embroider them over time.
A suspended space for contemplation: a dialogue between artifice and organic growth, between human craftsmanship and the gestures of the landscape.
The artwork “Vegetal Fabric” by Patrizia Polese and Carlo Vidoni won third prize and was selected among the top 8 pieces out of over 55 artists who participated inthe ArteNatura Open Call.
Bosco Nordio, one of Italy’s most beautiful nature reserves, now features a new artistic-environmental trail within this magical landscape, managed by Veneto Agricoltura. The project aims to celebrate the biodiversity of this unique place and enhance the well-being of its visitors.
“The Ephemeral Cities”
Collaborating closely with the Monogramma Studio and Tessitura La Colombina, we created three suspended or self-supporting tapestries that are entirely handmade.
Unique pieces that are never alike that create and separate space into flexible, changing, living dimensions.
The concept of these pieces originated as a result of a meeting between Alessia and Sabrina of Studio Monogramma, Patrizia Polese, and Carlo Colombo, and arose from a shared affinity for experimentation; trying new ways to create unique objects; true works of art that can be used as parts of daily life, in their own spaces.
Also taking part is Sandro Carraro, who was involved in the creation of the specialist woodworking found in the project.
“The Ephemeral Cities” was recently presented at Edit Napoli, a project that stands out thanks to its research principles and clever connection of ideas, knowledge and experience.
Barena
“Barena” is a modular system of indoor/outdoor dividers, featuring two handwoven copper elements with natural oxidation. Their fluid, variable heights and forms engage in a dynamic interplay. Inspired by Venice’s tidal landscapes (barene), the design creates a poetic filter that balances protection and openness to the environment.
Born from the collaboration between Patrizia Polese and Studio Blu, the project embodies a perfect synergy of art and design, merging Venetian craft traditions with Tuscan innovation into an object that evolves organically over time.
Origine - personal exhibition
In this context, Patrizia Polese’s “Origine” (Origin) allows us to rediscover weaving as both an art and a craft, as a means of expressing complex content through a primordial yet extremely refined and cultured technique. The archaic intertwining of different materials reveals a continuous search for subtle balances, expresses a patient and persistent curiosity for going beyond the apparent form of things, and generates light moments of suspension from reality that herald deep immersions into the most singular intimacy.
Spazio Zephiro – Castelfranco Veneto
October 2018
From Nature to Nature – Imaginary Landscapes Between Signs and Threads
This Solo Exhibition of the artist Patrizia Polese presented textile creations, from tapestries to sculptural forms, alongside wood/paper drawings and a new series of wire-based Alchemical Landscapes.
It was also the perfect occasion to supports the nonprofit organization “Ogni giorno per Emma” dedicated to finding a cure for Friedreich’s Ataxia very important for the Artist.
Banca Mediolanum
Piazza Pola – Treviso, Italy
May 18, 2019 – June 2, 2019
The Jungle
The Jungle by Patrizia Polese is a cascade of black threads that—as described by Clarita Di Giovanni, the exhibition curator—symbolize human DNA, the primal secret code
imprinted within us.
During the Vernissage on Saturday, September 29, visitors will witness and participate in artist Antonio Melasi‘s performance, where he’ll attempt to navigate The Jungle—an immersive thicket of fibers and entanglements created specifically for this event.
Humans
Miniartextil
XXVIII International Exhibition of Contemporary Art
September 29 – November 18, 2018
Venue:
Ex-Church of San Francesco
Largo Spallino, 1 – Como, Italy
Solo Exhibition at Berga Gallery, Vicenza
October 15 - November 30, 2016
With Patrizia Polese, Berga Gallery explores the space of breath, shared humanity, and reflection.
As an artist, Patrizia Polese never separates herself from her humanity—from her vital, living presence in the world. Like every human being, she embodies multiple coexisting identities that strengthen one another: Patrizia the woman-wife, Patrizia the woman-mother, Patrizia the woman-devoted-to-her-craft.
These three dimensions converge into a complete human being—fully present in her existence, and in her case, realized through art.
Agora
22nd edition of Minitextil, an exhibition organized by the Associazione Culturale Arte&Arte in Como and curated by Luciano Caramel, a leading figure in the Italian and international contemporary art scene of fiber art.
For this occasion, the artwork Present was selected to represent the theme of this edition in the international exhibitions. Both the location, Villa Olmo Como and Montrouge – de Paris , proved ideal for displaying the suspended artwork, allowing viewers to experience the ambivalence between the fear evoked by the spider’s appearance and the sense of protection felt when standing beneath the installation. This encouraged deeper reflection among the audience.
Agorà Miniartextil
XXII ntrnational exhibition–
Location:
Villa Olmo Como – Italia
Montrouge de Paris – France
"Kokoro Shin, tra le pieghe del cuore" (Kokoro Shin, Within the Heart's Folds)
This exhibition aims to highlight the richness and significance of contemporary artistic communication through a selection of works by Patrizia Polese.
Her sculptures, installations, tapestries, and photographs stem from a profound exploration of an inner world that generates all art—guiding the emotional and aesthetic trajectories of each artistic language.
Slowly crafted, beginning with the very creation of their constituent materials, these works retain traces of the hand that brought them to life, expressing an attention to detail that defines their communicative power.
In the tapestries, the slow and patient rhythm of execution translates the passage from the inner world, reorganizing the perception of fragmented and scattered sounds. I have the time to immerse myself in detail, selecting humble objects from daily life—like the threads once used by farmers—and transforming them into artistic creations. Time, the act of transformation itself, is the foundation of my artistic vision.
Ca’ Robegan Museum in Treviso
under the patronage of
the Veneto Region
the Province of Treviso
the Treviso Municipality.
July 2010
Gea
24nd edition of Minitextil, an exhibition organized by the Associazione Culturale Arte&Arte in Como and curated by Luciano Caramel, a leading figure in the Italian and international contemporary art scene of fiber art.
Gea the Great Mother, the Earth is examined in all its facets, highlighting the profoundconnection between living beings and the planet—a bond sustained by the rhythms of the seasons. For this edition, two works by artist Patrizia Polese were selected: the large-scale butterflies titled I Love U, accompanied by a text written by the artist specifically for the occasion.
Artist’s Statement
I wish nature would win, that it would reign supreme and dominant. I wish it could impose itself with its majestic presence, that it could scream through shapes and light, and that blood and fury would silence us forever. I wish it would hush us, I wish all of us—finally disarmed—would stop to look, to love, to listen. It has already said everything. Now it’s up to us. Small… we can be small and arrogant, blasphemous and foolish, to think we can tame it and bend it to our will… What ridiculous, doomed creatures… We can do anything, yet we decide nothing. We want everything, yet we have nothing to offer. Our sickness is believing we are something else—detached and dissociated, a wicked illusion, a lie that keeps us alive. But in our hearts, there is moss—the same as on the rocks. In our veins flows fresh mountain water. The pancreas is a sea sponge, the intestines a golden serpent. Our hands are like spiders, our synapses like tree branches, our muscles like petals, our bones like twigs, and our nails like seashells. Every part of us echoes nature—if we choose to see it.
I choose to. And you?
Gea Miniartextile
XXIV – intrnational exhibition–
Location:
Villa Olmo – Como – Italy
Museo civico di Palazzo Mocenigo – Venezia – Italy
Musèe de la Dentelle – Coudry – France
Montrouge de Paris – France
As When You Are Born
Solo exhibition at Galleria Nuove Arte Contemporanea
Curated by Domenico Maria Papa
We cannot remember the moment of our birth. Through others’ voices and stories, we construct a reflected memory of that moment made of essential yet dissonant fragments. Yet we are given the chance to be born, reborn, and to die countless times within a single lifetime, a single year, sometimes within a single instant. This is our greatest wealth.
It is this perpetual dressing and undressing that allows us to search, dig, and uncover new clues linked to other clues, until—if there ever is one—we might strip away the illusion of impermanence and reveal the meaning of those primal hints: the flow of existence itself.
These works explore the dynamic, provisional relationship between the individual and their environment: what people place at the center of their lives, their core beliefs or callings, and how these shape both personal existence and the world saturated with them.
Artist’s Statement
I don’t remember—no one can—
but the dress I wore,
yes,
that was put on me by my mother:
an unexpected host.
I shield my eyes from the sun
and see my father running
to seal my arrival
with a name of his choosing.
Keep digging, Patrizia, dig,
for sincerity demands patience and a shovel.
Three clues to my name:
a dress, a name, a shovel.
Come quando nasci / As When You Are Born
Nuvole Arte Contemporanea Gallery
December 2011 to January 2012.
Welcome
Artist Residency at Arthotel Brno, Czech Republic
Exhibition March 19 – April 8, 2011 Forte Marghera – Venice
Organized by Cantiere Corpo Luogo in collaboration with Arthotel Brno
Under the patronage of the City of Venice
Jury First Prize for the artwork Different Ways
Permanent display of the textile sculptures Different Ways at Arthotel Brno, Czech Republic
Patrizia Polese’s notes during the residency :
The theme proposed for this residency “ welcome “… a trap in reality, a spiderweb. When I was there in Brno, negotiating this theme—this subject—and experiencing it viscerally, at times I feared falling into a new version of myself. A subtle yet powerful duality emerged forcefully, pulling me in, from one side to the other. I discovered that by plunging back and forth, between being concave and convex, new knots arise—new facets, new tangles.
I am like someone who keeps digging, never reaching an end.
Artwork Statement:
Different Ways
The title of this piece felt fitting—it suggests new paths, but also different ways, a potent ambivalence between dissolving and solidifying.
In both bodies of work, whether created in Brno or in my Italian studio, the core remains the same: a drive that pushes me to dig deeper, to keep searching. Always. It’s a compulsion now etched into my body, into the order of my thoughts, or simply into the rhythm of my days. If I could, I’d swim above and below like my threads, then dive in and let myself be sucked through that hole to the other side—only to plunge back again. What happens in that passage? I don’t know exactly. I know it happens often, though it’s not always playful. Sometimes it stings.
Sometimes it grips too tight, like in that dream I had in Brno—someone trying to bind my wrists as I struggled free. Yet the tingling after the pressure always holds a fascination. It makes you feel, finally, that you exist, that something is flowing…
Perhaps that’s what propels me: to feel, ever more deeply, that I am here—now, in a way increasingly victorious, triumphant…