Carla D'Amato- Performance Pain ting

Carla D’Amato explores ways of emulating life—not by mere represention but by working with its essential conditions: movement, encounter, instability, action, response and transformation.

Her practice has evolved from registering the traces left by lived events toward more focused and tangible propositions that investigate the invisible forces that set life in motion.

More recently, this search has entered a deeper inquiry into the nature of desire: its persistence, its ambiguity, and the tension between what appears intimate and what also belongs to a collective dimension. Across painting, sculpture and installation, the work continues to unfold as a living field in which matter, time and human experience act upon one another.

An interview with Carla D’Amato on Performance Painting, artistic process, and visual language.

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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.

Within the Depths of Strength


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Exhibition Projects


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Diving into the Artist and their Work

An in -Depth Exploration

Pioneer Technique

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.

BIO & STATEMENT

Upcoming Show

CONTEXT ART MIAMI

DEC 1-6 2026

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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