Winter Soltice

Angela Ardisson

Photography by Trinityefe

I met Angela Ardisson 30 years ago. She was a beautiful young Tuscan girl who had just set her anchor in Milan, one of the few women working as a designer in the city at that time. She was known for her passion, her energy, and the skilled metalwork she brought from the maritime culture of her native port city of Livorno to the Navigli, her headquarters in Milan. I met Angela to request her participation in the HoperAperta project and found her hallmark enthusiasm came with a keen interest in getting involved, in investigation and discovery.

Angela Ardisson gave young photographer Vevila Galli Beckinsale the task of telling the story of her pieces, her lamps and her surfaces (signed Artplayfactory) for our Gallery. The shoot took place on the 21stof December 2019, the winter solstice, and is an homage to light and shadow.

Vevila Galli Beckinsale, daughter of two artists, grew up with her mother, Louise Beckinsale, a versatile illustrator that creates “artistic visions” based on constant experimentation and is driven by a markedly nonconformist spirit. Vevila's father, Luigi Galli, is a business development consultant for digital innovation startups, but has been working as an artist his entire life. From a very early age Vevila manifested her mother's frenetic creative energy and was carefully taught  the secrets of color, how to sculpt it and model it with her hands and body, always free to express herself without the creative shackles imposed by brushes or sponges.

Vevila, a.k.a. Trinityefe, is only 20 years old, a true Gen-Z prodigy.

Winter Solstice is Trinityefe's project in collaboration with Artplayfactory, headquarters of designer Angela Ardisson, shot on he 2019 winter solstice, the shortest day of the solar year.

As usual with the young artist (and despite the almost total absence of daylight).

The images portray Angela Ardisson's latest pieces, giving a glimpse into the experimentation with glass and metal that has found its way into her collections.

Patrizia Catalano