Vânia Mignone
Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, 1967
Vania Mignone was born in 1967 in Campinas, São Paulo, where she currently lives and works. She studied Plastic Arts at UNICAMP and Advertising at PUC Campinas. In the 1990s, she turned to painting and graphic design, two elements that have been combined in her work ever since. Mignone creates her works on different modules, or boards, which she assembles and disassembles to combine with each other. The rusticity of this method, together with her sharp brushstrokes and saturated colors, results in a powerful and vibrant image.
The central axis of her painting is the narrative, which is constructed from figures, words and objects balanced without hierarchies on the plane. The artist makes a stripped-down use of a repertoire of everyday characters, artifacts and artifices: a face that could belong to anyone, a chair, a household plant. In the particular iconography Mignone has been developing for some years, the steady treatment of ink establishes a consistent background: a land of possibilities in which image and language feed back into each other. Her paintings are unmistakable, with a strong but poetic palette; the variation of colors does not disturb the story being evoked.
Mignone achieves the right balance between image and text, creating theatrical scenes that show an intimacy that connects with moments of torment, despair, love or hope. It seems that among the remains of her works, an intimate diary is laid bare — vulnerability turned into power at the hands of an artist whose force is felt in each piece.
