Born in Pesaro, Italy Shola Mara Carletti graduated in graphic design at ISA School of Art of Urbino, Italy. One of the most renowned Italian art schools. Soon after she choose to work in a well known Advertising Agency in Rimini, where she was a full time Creative Director for Campaigns including corporate branding, exhibitions and trade fairs. There she acquired the high standards of professionalism that mark her work.

Throughout all her career she always loved to travel and widen her horizons in many directions: her rich formative experiences in communication, self-growth, meditation, yoga, etc. became the existential background that was meant to give depth and substance to her work. Hence her work has been moving more and more towards the purity and poetry of art, yet maintaining a rooted and pragmatic essence.

Her travels soon brought her to India where she found the ideal environment, incredibly spiritual and mundane at the same time, to establish a new phase of her work where painting and sculpture have become the focus of her activity and design a never ending story of play and passion...

It is difficult to categorize these artworks as simple paintings as they appear much more like real installations, hiding a special component in their most intimate essence. The main component of these works is gold, a powerful and dense colour, both physical and spiritual, that transpires lively, bright, transparent and fragile shades. Here the creative and human elements meet and run parallel until they separate. They show the human will¹s relativity in the mainstream of life.

From a technical point of view these artworks are particularly original as they represent a conceptual synthesis between the matter and the colour. Sometimes the colour becomes antithetical, nearly paradoxical. On the onen hand it is thick, and doesn¹t allow the light to go through it. On the other hand it is fluid, transparent and variable as the light¹s reflections on the glass.

In conversation with the artist about the meaning of making art we have identified the word ³entities² as a keyword of her charming creative instinct. Carletti's paintings remind us of irregular energy conglomerates, entities in continuous being. They look like elements transforming emotions and experiences of everyday life into a different dimension that is immortal and artistic at the same time. Works that are essential in the purity of their esthetical shape and that tend to be high, just like entities to be discovered or vital force to interact with. These elegant and golden structures refer to the supreme essence of existence. The artist thinks, creates and communicates of living entities that are in continuous evolution and regression.

In a sense they are the proof that the natural living cycle is determined by mankind's actions and that everyone¹s destiny reacts to the rules of an unknown design. The answer to the mistakes that we commit in our everyday life lies only in the observation and awareness. We are living therefore we commit mistakes. We are humans and our whole life is a mixture of emotions, feelings and memories that respond either to our reactivity or inactivity to primordial and complex events and interactions with other entities and lives. These are the words that most recall the work of Carletti and whenever I write them I think at the pointed shapes of those golden and parallel elements that refer to both the sky and the earth.

Shola has her own studio in Koregaon Park, Pune, India.