Julia Dall'Olio. Visions of the Seventh Day

Catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at Vibra – contemporary space of ideas, Ravenna, 18 April – 16 May 2015.

In what we can define as “landscapes”, Giulia gives life to forms and visions that seem to emerge from a very distant time, sometimes marked by a sort of hallucination and dream state. “Visions of the seventh day” could be defined as the images of these landscapes of his: what could probably be seen when God, after the labors of creation, he was finally able to rest. Here it is, then, the enchantment of lush vegetation that has its roots, by the artist deliberately left uncovered and easily identifiable within the earth, as if we were in front of an x-ray image (and not by chance, but with a profound symbolic gesture, when you combine two trees in the same work, the root systems rejoin and merge in the center into a single structure), and extends its branches into the sky, in an atmosphere that breathes the sublime and the mystical. So, nature as a means that connects the earth to the sky, what can be defined as the finite and what is instead the infinite, the unknown, the unknowable. They make us think, these paintings, to uncontaminated nature, preserved from the greed and plunder of man, in which vegetation grows and develops in a favorable environment, which we can imagine in a tropical climate, rich in nutrients and scents, as indeed the vapors that rise everywhere testify to us and that, crossed by sunlight, generate iridescence and brightness.
Taken from the text by Sandro Parmiggiani