About

Elena Zanetti was born in Bergamo (Italy) in 1962. She grew up in a big family in Mantova and soon moved to study English and French literature in Bologna and Milan where she graduated. She lived abroad for more than 12 years between London, Philadelphia and Zurich. She also holds a Diploma in Fine and Decorative Arts from RSA London. Since 2000 she is back in Italy where she started sculpting in 2011. From 2017 to 2018 she moved to Florence and trained at the Florence Academy of Art for a full year with Eran Weber and Eudald De Juana. Since then, she works in her studio in Milan where sculpts mainly portraits.

"I try to convey to each person their presence, their expression combined with the emotional impact that they leave on me. Each individual has her/his own inner beauty that characterises their personality, and each one of us has a true and distinctive one. My goal is to try to express and capture it. I find it truly fascinating that each one of us in this world has a different and unique face, different from everybody else, with its features, its expression, its life to it. 

As art is expression and interpretation of life, I, as an artist, try to interpret and filter it through my eyes, and my clay"