Daniela Iride Murgia
Mixed media sculptor
Venice, Italy
Life through the looking-glass
- Daniela lives between Italy and Denmark
- Craftsmanship, art and design converge in her creations
- Her illustration works have been awarded important accolades
The parallel dimension concocted by Daniela Iride Murgia comes to life in a masterful amalgam of collage, watercolour, embroidery, paper cutting, hand printing and India ink. “I am particularly fascinated by the artistic avant-gardes,” she explains. “Modernism, Bauhaus and Black Mountain College are excellent examples of what I am interested in: they represent a synthesis of transversal realities, in which art, architecture, design, craftsmanship, experimentation with materials, experiences and ideas can come together into the same container.” Her sources of inspiration change and evolve along with her life, but the constant element in her two- and three-dimensional works is always her inner impulse to convey meaning and interact with the viewer.
INTERVIEW
I am a visual artist. I combine my expertise as an illustrator with other artistic forms, creating three-dimensional objects, such as dioramas, that blur the boundaries between art, craft and design.
I have a degree in Oriental Art and a master's in Illustration. I did research for the National Research Council of Italy and then with leading international artists in contexts such as the Venice Biennale. I consider each experience as a building block of my current activity.
The element of water. I have always lived between Sardinia, my birthplace, Venice and Denmark. Though they are all quite different, both geographically and culturally, it is perhaps no coincidence that they are either islands or places defined by the sea.
In Sardinia I discovered the subtlety of certain smells, colours and shapes. Venice awes and inspires me with its seamless horizons of water and city. While in Denmark I have learned to live design as a natural, everyday experience.
