Elisa Pezzino – IT

1989 Born in Florence, Italy

She has always been passionate about sculpture, experimenting with various techniques and materials. Between the year 2012 and 2015 she attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, where she obtained a first degree academic diploma in Visual Arts: Sculpture. From 2015 to 2018 she continued and completed her studies in Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara, obtaining a second degree academic diploma. Later she was qualified, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Catania, to teach plastic and sculptural disciplines in public school. Since 2005 she has gained artistic experience, also abroad, participating in collective exhibitions, festivals and environmental projects for public spaces, collaborating and working with international artist, such as the renowned American sculptor Carole Feuerman. Among the most significant experiences are the public work “Messaggio dal Mare” (2025), donated to Chiessi, in the municipality of Marciana on the Elba island and, the exhibition at the Medici Museum of Art in Warren (Ohio) “ZODIAC: Mysterious power of the creative”, presented by the Carole Feuerman Sculpture Foundation

and the Medici Museum of Art directed by Katelyn Amendolare-Russo. She lives and works in Florence, in the public school, where she teaches the techniques of sculpture and goldsmithing.

ARTIST STATEMENT

The artistic research of Elisa Pezzino is born from a solid academic training focused on traditional and figurative representation, a language through which the artist investigates deep social and psychological issues. The body representation - privileged expressive vehicle - reflects the complexity of the human being by questioning the concept of beauty and natural goodness even emphasizing their fragility and precariousness. From these reflections, the vision of a possible return to an original state comes as a call for a condition of balance between man and Nature.

Through the study of American Land-Art and the European movement of Art in Nature, the artist develops her own poetic towards a plastic and relational dimension that involves the environment as a protagonist; it is defined by sculptural groups of endangered animals which interact with their environment. Her work is an instrument of awareness and dialogue between the human being and the natural Universe, focusing on: the enhancement of the environment, the protection of animals and the urgency of a new ecological sensitivity. So, Art becomes not only an aesthetic gesture, but an ethical and necessary act, able to redefine the relationship between man and the world.

Permanent works for public spaces include: “Harlequins by bike” in Montelupo Fiorentino, a project of Eugenio Taccini and “Message from the sea” (2025, Chiessi, Elba Island, Italy).

Currently, she’s working on a new environmental project that is being carried out in Sicily, at the town hall of Sant’Agata di Militello, “Through sea turtles”.