Carolina Mazzolari was born in 1981 in Milan, Italy. Mazzolari studied at Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano NABA (1999 – 2001) and at London’s Chelsea College of Art and Design now UAL (2000 – 04)and has been basedin London since 2014. In her creativepractice she employs textile manipulation, printing, painting, photography, video and performance inspired by psychoanalysis, intuition, cognition, human behavior and emotional development. Her ongoing series of contemporary abstract tapestries, Emotional Fields, are the materialization of elusive states of mind, depictions of metaphorical inner landscapes, these were initially inspired by Kurt Lewin’s field theory and Carl Jung’s scripts. Their distinctive herringbone technique using cotton, silk and wool thread on hand-dyed linen fabric interacts with light, creating changing depths and luminous illusions. Her exquisite hand-stitched work is imbued with a sense of intimacy through the physical interaction with the fabrics over many hundreds of hours. Mazzolari’s delicate and meditative works are reminiscent of mandalas in which love, hesitation, loss, grief, and struggle are described in a personal and universal language, connecting to a deeper human pattern.
Solo exhibitons include Don’t Look Back Orpheus, SARP Gallery – Sicily Art residency Program, Italy (2024); Alone, Together, Domus Civica, Venice, Italy (2023); EMOTIONAL FIELDS, Tristan Hoare Gallery, London, UK (2019); Dark Blooms Immersive Show, “Dark Blooms” (tryptic), Creative Doors, Paris, France (2014); Dark Blooms, Corso Monforte Temporary ART space, Milan, Italy (2013).
Group exhibitions include Tete a Tete, Mucciaccia Gallery, Roma, Italy (2024); Seeing Red, Philip’s London, UK (2024); Live With It, Battersea Power station, London UK (2024); Musei del Mare, Metellino, Genova, Italy (2023); Entre les Mondes, Palaceta St Estevao, Alfama, Lisbon, Portugal (2022); Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, UK (2022); Carbon, Superblue, London, UK (2022); The Welled Garden, Tristan Hoare Gallery, London (2021); ArteJeans, presenting Mare Nostrum, Genova, Italy (2020); Synergy, presenting EMOSPHERE, Tristan Hoare Gallery, London, UK (2020); Presenting The Bubble Maker, Palazzo Zaguri, Venice, Italy (2019); Subversive Stitch, presenting LOVE1, TJ Boulting, London, UK (2019); From Kandinski to Botero, presenting The Bubble Maker, Venice, Italy (2019); RA250 Summer Show, presenting “Dark Blooms” (tryptic), Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (2019); Dark Blooms, Creative Doors, Paris, France (2014); Blooms, Milan, Italy (2014); Collaboration with ROH The Royal Opera House, Royal Ballet, National Gallery in the creation of textile design for TITIAN 2012 metamorphisis MACHINA, London, UK (2012); Eindhoven Design Week, Eindhoven, Netherlands (2011); Textile collection showcase in collaboration with the design group Dutch Intertuals (2011).