陈列您的艺术作品给每天无数的访客观看

I would like to introduce myself and my artwork through some extracts of an article by Giovanna Grossato, an Italian art critic of my hometown.



article on “Il Giornale di Vicenza” , Sunday 4 July 2004


It does exist deep inside many of us another Ego, of eternal youth and purity; it represents all we could and always wished to be. This Ego we miss and contemplate with tormenting desire is the poetic core of a young artist from Vicenza who is now becoming successfull in the United States.
(...) (Evelyn's paintings)are extremely representative of her style, soon well defined from the beginning and matured since she started her career. They belong to a disquieting Surrealism where characters, probable but not assimilable to any type completely rooted in reality, represent probably different aspects of the same subject: the artist herself. Her painting is a thought translated into image, starting with the conviction that language normally used in “figurative painting” to describe reality, at the end of the representative course, gives it just one of the thousands of possibilities of interpretations. So the sensation in front of these paintings is that they develop a spin around the Ego using a language that draws on a sort of “Magic Realism”, a term used by Franz Roth and Massimo Bontempelli to identify the tendency in the European painting of the 20’ies to give Reality a photographic representation, immersed nevertheless in an atmosphere silent and detached that puts in a painting an element of unreality and a sense of gap of time.
The narrative process of Evelyn Astegno also utilizes the ambiguity of the frontiers between Truth and Dream; it adds the disquieting doubt that there won’t be any awakening to mark the harsh certainty of reality neither a reversible way to the total immersion into the Ego.

The Benefits of the Moon

1997
pastel on paper glued on bent board
60cmx60cm

The Ice Queen

2004
Acrylic on Canvas
60cmx80cm

Three-dimensional self-portrai

2001
Oil on Canvas
70cmx100cm

The Window

2004
Oil on Cardboard
50cmx70cm

The Five Senses/Nostalgia of

2000
Acrylic and Oil on two Plexiglas panels
60cmx80cm

Inside the Labyrinth

Death in Venice 2

2004
30cmx40cm

Call from the Grave

2004
Acrylic on Canvas
60cmx80cm