From the Catalog "ESPOSIZIONE TRIENNALE DI ARTI VISIVE" IN ROME 2014 TILTESTETICA by Daniele Radini Tedeschi; edited by GIORGIO MONDADORI:

ANTONELLA SCAGLIONE was born in Rome, in a family where strong breathes the love of art. In fact his father was a painter in the '70s. 

The works of Antonella Scaglione are appreciated for their inventiveness and for the dynamic and brilliant use of color.

In the work, entitled "LA DOLCE VITA 1" she, rereads the Fellini film through a timeless icon: the Swedish actress Anita Ekberg, who, in this image from the film, recalls that historian"myth" of Trevi fountain in which the actress is immersed.

Antonella Scaglione intervenes photographic image recreated, using his collages and giving homage to the '60s. Similar style to Mimmo Rotella, our artist gives a new face to a milestone in films  history, clearly legible and usable, thanks to the writing in red letters, that indicate the title of the film, but also the  title of the canvas.

The work, as well as now comes out, it may be said, in effect, her own.

Reality and fantasy mingle in this spiral movement created by a series of segments that make the picture almost an evocative puzzle, where alternates and combines the black and white of the original image with the color of the painting. chromatic spirals generate movement in an image captured at the height of ecstasy, with eyes closed.

The pop art recovery process is all too obvious and as Warhol, even Antonella Scaglione there is something deeper than aesthetics of the banal. The pop procedure is used as a means of decoration, to give an added value to the image, in order to increase the evocative potential. And 'the triumph of the philosophy of art, in which the work takes on a force of equal significance to the strength of identity that an' icon of cinema releases.

If Warhol was able, through an art suited to the masses, to capture the essence of his time (the 60s), Antonella Scaglione is perfectly able to turn her eyes to the same years and read disenchanted eyes the same era , that of the economic boom of the 60s, without the averaging filter of melancholy and nostalgia, factors that in times of crisis often have the upper hand.

FEDERICA PELIGRA