"Matter. Origin or goal of the creative process? Soul of the formal body or dynamic form of the essence? Matter and energy are transformable into each other because matter is alive. Matter speaks. Not everyone is able to understand its language but Ilaria Forlini certainly does. Her sculpture is living, rough matter. In shaping matter the artist almost manages to infuse it with life. Her art brings with it various aspects of the reality. Ilaria wraps her sculptures with a wooden frame, almost as if she wanted to stop the beauty and keep it inside the geometries. She looks for an idea of archetypal beauty in simple geometric shapes. She studies the circle and the square in their symbolic evolution. The square symbolizes the antithesis of the transcendent. A quadrangular construction that represents the squaring of matter, the normalisation of what by its nature would have remained shapeless. An anti-dynamic figure, anchored on all four sides. It is a metaphor of definition and delimitation, of stop or isolated instant. The circle, on the other hand, has no beginning or end, neither direction nor orientation. It represents the infinite, the continuity, the transcendent. And within it there are details in wood, like ribs that partially punctuate the space. Her art is the form of the object that is installed between these realities. Deconstruction. Deconstruction becomes the instrument to represent space, opposites and contrasts. Her sculpture is dictated by a precise order that fully expresses the sense of harmony, spirituality, transcendence and absolute. A pulsating vitalism". Beatrice Carducci (from "FO.GA.RA. dal fare dell’arte" curated by Andrea Del Guercio)
