Carla d ‘Amato
Pioneering Performance Painting
Welcome
Carla D’Amato’s artistic universe takes shape as a territory where life and passion condense into image, object and sound. Each work holds the intensity of singular experiences, transformed into different narratives that seek to activate a deep emotional resonance.
In her production, color and monochrome, the support, the technique, forms, and mark-making coexist as a language of her own: a system of signs that constructs open-ended narratives in which the visible and the suggested coexist. Painting, photography, and sculpture come together into a body of work that explores reality and existence through the force of gesture, through subtleties, and through the materialization of the body. A body of work that proposes itself as a witness to the process of existing, where what we see—or what we are—is the sum of units of lived experience.
D’Amato’s practice—especially through her own performance painting technique—articulates a space in which life and art intertwine, expressing complexity in a way that is simultaneously contemporary and timeless.
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SERIES
Happening Now
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The Happening Now series traces a territory of suspension and threshold, where the expanded instant appears in scenes that seem to inhabit the edge between reverie and consciousness—where stillness holds, in potential, an inner movement.
Serene contemplation is linked here to a deeper reflection on presence, time, and sensitivity; each piece functions as a fragment of a state, rather than as a mere representation of a scene.
Traces of The Present Moment
A series that unfolds and immerses itself in the formal and conceptual investigation around the materialization of existence.
Through a radically innovative performance painting technique—conceived and developed by the artist herself—the pictorial gesture becomes an action record: the surface gathers impact, frictions, displacements, and pauses. Lights and shadows, complementary opposites, configuring fields that evoke both contained energy and inner impulse.
The series is thus situated at a crossroads between painting, action, and trace, where the artist’s body operates as a mediator between impulse and form.
1-800 Desires
Taking Reservations
The 1-800 Desires series is a sharp commentary on the multifaceted nature of desire in contemporary culture. Signs that operate as emblems of aspirations tied to power, wealth, and intimacy—devices that reveal the almost advertising-like logic through which longing is articulated and consumed.
The artist herself distills the spirit of the project into a key line:
“Tell me your desire and I’ll turn it into a work of art—or into something you can have.”
This statement introduces a deliberate tension between intimate desire and the purchasable object, questioning the boundaries between experience, promise, and commodity.
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Diving into the Artist and their Work
An in -Depth Exploration
This section offers a more profound approach to Carla’s practice: her influences, the development of the technique, the conceptual threads running through her series.
It addresses themes such as the body in action, the trace of gesture, the construction of emotional atmospheres and the relationship between lived experience and visual record.
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Certificates of Authenticity — Important Notice
As of January 21, 2026, the only valid Certificates of Authenticity for artworks by Carla D’Amato are those issued in the new format, hand-signed by the artist, and including the artwork registration number/code.
If you hold an older certificate (without a registration number) and wish to upgrade to the new Certificate of Authenticity, please contact: [your email / WhatsApp].
A digital version can be issued upon request. If you require the certificate in paper format, it can be shipped via mail/courier for an additional handling and shipping fee.
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