Loretta Cappanera born 1/9/1956 lives and works in Cividale del Friuli (UD) engraver, painter, illustrator.
Her exhibition activity began in the early 90s with shows that hark back to the great historical tradition of Italian painting with the technical choice of fresco painting.
At the beginning of the 90s her research turned towards graphic art, she attended the International School of Graphics in Venice and studied its techniques. She founds in the ‘artist’s book’ the most loved form of expression.
In 2002, together with the poet and actor Andrea Zuccolo, she founded CappaZeta Edizioni in Udine. Since 2008, her research has turned to other experiments: hand-woven canvases or everyday fabrics, which she prints, engraves, pierces, and writes with thread, binding everything together to form a unicum, with iron and its rust writing. There is a thin thread that inextricably links writing to the sign, a thread that often unravels the intricate skein of memories, dissolving their essence in the folds of the soul, and then runs far away, beyond the edge of the painted page, between the plots of time and the warp of an infinite space, where the same matter is crossed by the shadow of memory. All of this appears, finally, as if frozen in the extreme enchantment of a mystery.
Some of the artist’s works have recently been acquired by Gam di Udine Casa Cavazzini.

The celestial plots of Loretta Cappanera
“Of the living and animated Cosmos, Heaven and Earth are the primordial couple, the male and the female, the father and the mother, the vertical and the horizontal, the light and the dark depth of the earth, the high and the low, they are Uranus and Gea, the unity of opposites that always come together and cannot be one without the other.
Bringing heaven to earth is what the recent and latest cycle of works by Loretta Cappanera seems to want to do, starting from the title itself, The sower of stars, an involuntary and Freudian apparition of her own self expanded to the cosmos, an apparition of the secret desire to merge and be one with the sky and the stars in rediscovering the enchantment of the first encounter or glance towards the stars. Infinite are the mythologies that have accompanied this gaze that has seen figures with which she has built, imagined and traced the maps of the constellations while she has never stopped questioning the mystery of their and our presence and of the life that animates the cosmos.
And we know that myths, like the forms in which they come into being, never die, they sink, they transform and then return: in fact, they live in the unconscious of time. This is what happens in the references to myth present in the fabrics on which Loretta Cappanera draws her celestial maps. In Le mappe dei mondi the square says the earth with its four elements and its four directions and the circle, in which it is inscribed, says the sky of which the square is a projection. But, with a shift of the gaze, Le mappe can configure two blue circles, that of the sky and that of the blue planet, just as we see the earth if we look at it from the sky.”
Eleonora Fiorani