“Piscine” by Karine Romanelli who combines collage and painting. 20cm x 20 cm.

Artist Karine Romanelli likes to work with a mix of collage and painting with a retro aesthetic.
Through a set of mixed techniques, most often combining collage and painting, Karine Romanelli strives to arouse emotion and nostalgia against a backdrop of vintage and urban atmosphere. Stereotypical femininity is showcased through elegant housewives, fifties-style pin-ups in suggestive negligees, and curvy couture busts. These glamorous heroines pose in a retro setting, featuring old-fashioned kitchens and televisions and radios that wouldn't look out of place in a museum. Painting blends skillfully and harmoniously with the collage work, so well that the scattered elements give rise to a world of their own. Places and objects can be the sole subjects of the canvas, suggesting a human presence through a mixture of refinement and disorder, and the domestic sphere blends with city life in a nostalgic atmosphere.