STATEMENT
I believe that Art can heal. At the very least awaken. If art is a physical representation of our inner world, the act of creating, physically making, is my way to achieve emotional resolution, through myself and gifted to others, at the core of our psyche, beyond the verb and through symbols.
Mirroring the human harmony of our contrasts, I seek various forms of challenge, from confrontation to liberation, from conversing to dancing or sparring with the elements, from the most direct actions of steel welding, cutting, burning, and bending metal, to completing a portrait from life in a slow and irresistible process… I enjoy and welcome the sense of adventure and exploration, seeking the inner chaos I feel before an artwork appears to me, finished and intimidating. Only then can I play and create and finally clear my mind of unnecessary noise and dare to breathe, express and feel fully alive.
"VISION" for RoCA
Firstly, the theme of PROGRESSIONS OF NATURE, plural, spontaneously implied to me sequences. Secondly, in this virtual age, nature is too often taken for granted. For this project, I wanted to create an experience, an unexpected mental interaction, as a way to capture the attention of whoever walks it. The installation itself should be seemingly simple, and apparently predictable. It consists of 3 arches, each supporting a bird, three as sequences of a movement. The unexpected twist comes from a game of perspective and proportions. From a focal point, the starting point, the three birds appear of the same width. As starts walking into the trail, one realizes that the wingspan is expending at a surprising speed, a speed related to the pace of the walker. Symbolically, this illustrates how mental perspective cannot grasp, predict and even less replace the empirical experience.
The white color of the semi abstract forms emphasizes their complex organic shapes on the busy background of the woods and inspires purity, with a touch of spirituality. The location is aligned with one of one of the straight accesses to the RoCA sculptures open field, at the beginning of the path to the woods, like a threshold to magic and mystery, while.
BIOGRAPHY
Authenticity has always ruled her life. Freedom made it unpredictable. Caroline Bergonzi grew up under the blue Mediterranean sky, with an artist grandfather as her mentor, who passed when she was 11. Attached to Monaco, her family and home principality, she did chose, at 17, the anonymous life of big cities.
The natural born artist started with Paris, business school and postgraduate studies in fashion management to acquire entrepreneurial tools she judged necessary to obtain her freedom. In parallel to her studies, she was creatively active in diverse environments as costume design, video games and the Paris Haute Couture. Some exams and missions later, especially in China and in Italy, she chose New York as her new home, for its human masses, its rhythms, and its mosaic of cultures. The brutal reality of this new urban and mental environment encouraged her in a deeper immersion in empiric philosophy, psychology and spirituality.
Being true to her instincts paid off. The originality of her self-taught solo itinerary and the quality of her work has brought her art to numerous exhibitions and public art (including two monumental public art sculptures in New York), to the World Expo in Shanghai, and even to talk at the United Nations and the UNESCO, in Paris. Her creations have been chronicled by the press and TV (New York Times, Wall Street Journal, BFM TV, NY1 TV...).
Caroline Bergonzi spends most of her time at her Creative Laboratory, in Greenwich Village, Manhattan.
The “CAROLINE BERGONZI CREATIVE LABORATORY” represents the vast array of Caroline Bergonzi’s activities, all related to ART and CREATIVITY, through the exploration of various techniques. The artist is based in Monaco and shares her time with her Manhattan art studio, in Greenwich Village. Her 3D sculpture activities are described on www.carolinebergonzi.com and her 2D painting activities on www.atelierbergonzi.com. All copyrights on the arts, photos, website, and texts belong to their author, Caroline Bergonzi, and CREALAB LLC. Contact: email her at : STUDIO@CAROLINEBERGONZI.COM, or leave a message at this # : (+1) 212 592 4500.