Eleonora Zannier in Carraro Chabarik studio

“I was born in Friuli region in 1991 and being half Italian and half French I’m grown up under the influence of these two cultures.

After the scientific training I decided to enroll at Scuola Mosaicisti del Friuli (the Mosaic School of Spilimbergo), where in 2013 I qualified as a mosaic artist.

In my research I always follow a personal bond, very narrow, between the archaic origins of the mosaic and my proposals in contemporary art.
Light, tessera and interstice, but also material and color: these are fundamental elements of all my compositions.
I strongly believe that the feature that makes the mosaic a unique and unrepeatable art , in a world so digital and abstract like ours, is its ability to make us rediscover the surfaces and the materials through the simplicity and immediacy of the physical contact.
Each stone, each piece of marble or glass becomes a tessera, a basic element with its own meaning, but, when placed together with the other tesserae in a mosaic, it acquires a totally new value.
This is for me the most beautiful concept that tells the mosaic art.
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The goal of my research is to find new interpretative solutions applicable both in contemporary art and design, furniture and architecture.”

Eleonora Zannier