ARTIST STATEMENT

Magherita Serra was born in Brescia and received a diploma from the Academy of Fine Arts and a degree from Milan Polytechnic. In the seventies she devoted herself to sculpture. Over the years, Serra has proved her skilled ability at working in a variety of materials: marble, wood, glass and more. In 2000, the National Museum in Palazzo Venezia (Rome) featured her sculptures "The Corsets" that illustrate the essence of being a woman but not the woman herself. Her marble corsets are abstract forms, solitary sculptures, crisp and clear as they emerge from the author's imagination with the strength of a dream.

Serra’s sculptures stand tall on pedestals and reveal an ability to dialogue gracefully within the contexts of the spaces where they are shown. According to leading Italian art critics, a unique aspect of The Corsets is the mediated, allusive celebration of the female body–made all the more effective by being based on what is not said and what is not revealed–which is ultimately both sensual and enticing because of the absence of the body. The figure is left to the imagination. 

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