Chimera
By signing Chimera, Elena Salmistraro combines rigor with creativity, defining a graphic grammar with an intense symbolic charge.
The mythological figure of the Chimera lends itself to describing almost perfectly the decorative inspiration behind the namesake ceramic collection designed by Elena Salmistraro. Originating from four graphic themes named Empatia, Radici, Ritmo, and Colore, this family of large slabs is distinguished by a marked visual extroversion, with subjects that blend different codes of stroke and color with cutouts derived from the surface appearance of stones, fabrics, and leathers.
Empatia evokes emotions with designs that interpret, through the filter of a completely personal abstraction, the clown's stage makeup, achieved by the overlapping of geometries and images. Radici is a tribal statement, a tribute to the figure of the primitive ritual costume, suggested by the interference of a sequence of triangles and rectangles with a set of figurative cutouts. Ritmo has a textile suggestion, evoking the rhythmic alternation of woven material through a design with a predominantly linear development. With Colore, the disturbance of a background with small isolated spots generated by a parametric digital program is juxtaposed with the dense presence of repeated shapes.
Silvana Annicchiarico "Tactile surfaces"
It all starts with drawing. A passion for drawing. An obsession with drawing. Drawings like spider-webs, obsessively filling spaces, in a kind of manual choreography or gymnastics, a continuous flow. Elena Salmistraro draws all the time. She draws everywhere.
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Elena Salmistraro
The Chimera collection is a bit like a book with four different chapters: I wanted to differentiate these graphic motifs and have four totally different stories.
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