TRANSLATION OF POST BY ITALIAN JOURNALIST/ART CRITIC/BLOGGER MIMMO GERRATANA 2014
Born in Paris, but raised in Australia, Lilianne Milgrom lives between the United States and Israel. She is artist who set out to approach her craft with a touch of irony and a hint of rage, but most of all, with a great desire of exploring the unknown, blending aesthetics, instinct and inner perceptions.
Her eclectic output defies definitions, although her paintings, ceramic sculptures, photographs and art installation share a common thread: the focus on individuality.
Lilianne’s artworks fall somewhere in between the instinctive and the conceptual sphere, taking inspiration from many artistic currents and mindsets and offering her contemporary interpretation, not unlike past masters such as Courbet, Cézanne, Rodin, just to name a few.
These pieces represent the condition of the human identity, of the human body, captive and slave to social conventions, fashion and self-imposed mindset; decayed by war, violence and abuse; conditioned by repression, clothing and make up.
“The body” is here intended as a bearer of individuality, particularly expressing ideas, dreams, joy, lust, sorrow and anger.
With this philosophy, Lilianne portrays several subjects, such as in her installation “Basic needs” where you can only see part of the legs and feet of an apparently really well dressed sculpture of a woman locked in a bathroom stall. Other works include a ceramic model of female underwear bound to a heavy lock; realistic portraits of people in everyday settings, a painting of a woman, with one of her breasts hidden by a fox pelt (thus putting the body in direct communication with its instinctive, animal side). Lilianne portrays her own naked body, in everyday life, even in moments of vanity or sexual excitement, but in other occasions, she dismembers it, as to isolate the body parts into essential elements.
Lilianne Milgrom’s art is uncompromisng, free from currents and trends, as the artist herself aims to be free from external influences and conventions. Her work unveils these wishes with a sense of nakedness and instinctivity, defying moral preconceptions in the struggle to connect to physicality and inner reality.
Born in Paris, but raised in Australia, Lilianne Milgrom lives between the United States and Israel. She is artist who set out to approach her craft with a touch of irony and a hint of rage, but most of all, with a great desire of exploring the unknown, blending aesthetics, instinct and inner perceptions.
Her eclectic output defies definitions, although her paintings, ceramic sculptures, photographs and art installation share a common thread: the focus on individuality.
Lilianne’s artworks fall somewhere in between the instinctive and the conceptual sphere, taking inspiration from many artistic currents and mindsets and offering her contemporary interpretation, not unlike past masters such as Courbet, Cézanne, Rodin, just to name a few.
These pieces represent the condition of the human identity, of the human body, captive and slave to social conventions, fashion and self-imposed mindset; decayed by war, violence and abuse; conditioned by repression, clothing and make up.
“The body” is here intended as a bearer of individuality, particularly expressing ideas, dreams, joy, lust, sorrow and anger.
With this philosophy, Lilianne portrays several subjects, such as in her installation “Basic needs” where you can only see part of the legs and feet of an apparently really well dressed sculpture of a woman locked in a bathroom stall. Other works include a ceramic model of female underwear bound to a heavy lock; realistic portraits of people in everyday settings, a painting of a woman, with one of her breasts hidden by a fox pelt (thus putting the body in direct communication with its instinctive, animal side). Lilianne portrays her own naked body, in everyday life, even in moments of vanity or sexual excitement, but in other occasions, she dismembers it, as to isolate the body parts into essential elements.
Lilianne Milgrom’s art is uncompromisng, free from currents and trends, as the artist herself aims to be free from external influences and conventions. Her work unveils these wishes with a sense of nakedness and instinctivity, defying moral preconceptions in the struggle to connect to physicality and inner reality.
