Farewell to Jolanda Spagno, great interpreter of the art of drawing

Jolanda Spagno, a Bari-born artist from Puglia, passed away in her hometown these days at the age of 51 from an illness she had been battling for years.

Born in 1967, Spagno trained at theAcademy of Fine Arts in Puglia’s capital, where, later, she would return as a teacher: in fact, until shortly before her passing, she had held contract positions. As an artist she established herself in the early 1990s, thanks to the Bari gallery of Ninni Esposto, who discovered her, and was invited several times to exhibit by Rosalba Branà, director of the Pascali Museum in Polignano, participated in important festivals such as the XIV Quadriennale in Rome, the Puglia section of the Italian Pavilion for the 54th Venice Biennale (in the edition in which the Italian Pavilion was curated by Vittorio Sgarbi), and multiple exhibitions in institutional spaces and private galleries, most recently in China. In addition, his exhibitions have been held at the Farnesina Collections in Rome, the National Gallery in Cosenza, the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome, and the Pino Pascali Museum in Polignano a Mare.

Hers, wrote Antonella Marino in Repubblica, was “a research centered on the love for a very ancient technique such as drawing, which she actualized without renouncing manual dexterity” and which she “practiced with extreme skill using graphite, with progressive erasures, to sketch sidereal landscapes, Arctic views and especially faces.”

Farewell to Jolanda Spagno, great interpreter of the art of drawing

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