Olimpia Zagnoli: Multifaceted
SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah
July 31 – December 23, 2024
Artist and designer OLIMPIA ZAGNOLI (b. 1984, Montecchio Emilia, Italy) is world-renowned for her iconic Pop-Deco illustrations that frequently appear in major magazines, books, merchandise, and advertisements. Zagnoli’s process begins in the sketchbook, where her drawings take inspiration from her everyday surroundings and happenstance encounters, sharpening into stylized shapes imbued with vibrant colors that enhance their communicative power. For her site-specific installation in the museum’s public-facing Jewel Box vitrines, Olimpia Zagnoli transposes her bold images from their two-dimensional format into large-scale sculptures with careful consideration of every line, angle, and hue. Olimpia Zagnoli populates each space with a portrait of an invented character enshrined in a layered composition that plays with the rules of the grid. Inviting passersby into her technicolor universe, she creates a trail of graphic vignettes along the museum’s façade, imparting the impact of image-making while celebrating the elasticity of our identities.
SCAD MUSEUM OF ART - SCAD MOA
Savannah College of Art and Design
601 Turner Blvd., Savannah, Georgia
