Cecilia Terenzoni artcurator review on my artwork "Protect":

Carolina Polara is a self-taught italian painter and fashion designer.

Her piece "Protect" is the painting reproduction of the famouse picture taken by American fashion photographer Steven Maisel.

The picture, and also the painting faithfully, portraits an intimate embrace between American singer Madonna and Italian actress Isabella Rossellini, daughter of the neorealist director Roberto Rossellini.

What stands out the most in "Protect" is the intensity of Isabella's look, extremely confidente, almost defying the viewer.

On the contrary, the "pop queen" seems to be Award of the external gaze and we simply see her letting go in the reassuring and comfortable arms of the actress.

The painting immortalizes a moment of affection and tenderness but, at the same time, it also conveys an important message: the women are not portrayed as a object of desire, but instead it is highlighted their indipendence from the external.

The painting is an artistic homage to Steven Meisel, but it also represents an urgency to reproduce and to offer to a broader audience the same intensity and emotional fruition Carolina herself experienced in contemplating that picture.