LAURA ALUNNI

Jeff Goins, "Real Artists Don’t Starve" affirms what Laura Alunni lives in her Umbrian studio: that authenticity and sustainability in art can coexist. Rejecting the myth of the starving artist, Alunni embraces pricing as integrity, patronage as resonance, and slow creation as resistance. Her layered abstraction speaks to those who value presence over noise: a quiet but radical invitation to reimagine how art endures.

After years of intentional silence, my work returns shaped by time, matter, and inner transformation. Like the ashes that preserved Pompeii, this pause held something essential. What emerges now is not just new work, but a different kind of presence, quieter, slower, and more necessary than before.

How do we find the soul of art in a transactional world? My answer is in my Umbrian studio, a space designed for dialogue over monologue. It is my proposal to restore authentic connection, inviting you into the heart of the creative process.

In my abstract art, matter is never a neutral medium; it is an active participant in an emotional dialogue. For over forty years, I have worked as a material alchemist, transforming pure pigments, marble dust, sands, and resins into visible forms of memory, silence, and light. Each tactile surface becomes a topography of the inner self, inviting the viewer into a sensory experience where fleeting feelings are given timeless form. This is the quiet power of matter taking shape

An Italian artist's reflection on human memory in the age of AI. Explore the "Mutable Memory" collection, a dialogue between analogue painting and perfect data

To see is to forget the name of what one sees,” wrote Valéry. In this reflection, abstract artist Laura Alunni explores how her work invites a return to pure perception — beyond words, beyond categories — into a space of memory, emotion, and silent connection.