THE ARTIST
FIRST YEARS
Born on September 22nd 1989 in Pavia, Paola Alma Gemelli has been approaching the world of art since childhood.
After high school, she continued hers studies at "Accademia Brera" in Milan, learned about the works of artists from the past and confronted with contemporary ones. These are intense years also marked by difficult and painful moments that feed the needed for Paola Alma Gemelli to confront the mystery of life and death.
"I love my life and this means looking for a dialogue with death because it is an integral part of our existence. My beginning and my end. We spend a lifetime learning to live but we never get prepared in the face of death. My art is an invitation to reflect on the existence of two indivisible figures that are part of what we are ”.
MEMENTO MORI
Start an emotional journey that the photo "Memento Mori project" finds its expression and translates quickly into a life-size series of self-portraits in which the artist portrays herself in familiar places, lying as if dead.
The ancient relationship that links life and death, the mystery of man and nature, trace the contours of his artistic path who Paola Alma Gemelli has taken to a higher level by transforming the paintings into a unique clothing line in her
style where drawings with a strong symbolic meaning become wearable art.
Bones, living or dead organs, in contrast with a flower, a plant, a color, become the mouthpiece of a universal message that through exhibitions in the main Italian cities (including Milan and Turin) and international (including Berlin and Miami) and thanks to the creations signed Alma Gemelli - Indossare l'arte travel the world telling emotions that belong to the history of each of us.
Alma Gemelli