Carla Sello’s works are layered landscapes evoking synapses and organic tissues, designed to breathe new life into waste materials, particularly plastic polymers. In them, abandoned material is reborn as a sensory scenery, transforming the symbol of mass consumption into a vibrant body that unites matter and spirit in defense of the Earth.
Her research is rooted in an intimate life story, where the ethics of reuse is a family memory and an act of resilience. The daughter of a seamstress and a versatile clerk, she inherited a devotion to beauty found through recovery. This approach was consolidated during her adolescence, marked by the earthquake in Friuli: there, she learned the value of parsimony and solidarity, seeing her parents transform simple cardboard into resources for those who had lost everything.
Originally from Udine, after starting an advertising and editorial graphic design studio in Florence, collaborating with prestigious publishing houses and companies — including De Agostini, La Nuova Italia, Bonechi, Flow East in Prague, Fiat, and Pigna — she moved to Rome to dedicate herself entirely to art and teaching. Currently a Professor of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lecce, she has gained significant international teaching experience, such as her tenure at the Private University of Science and Art in Aleppo, Syria.
Her artistic path unfolds through prestigious international stages, including participation in the Venice Biennale at Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, solo exhibitions in Vienna, and exhibitions in China at the Italian Embassy and the United States, in addition to a profound research experience in India that marked fundamental milestones in art centers such as Auroville and Chennai.
The value of her experimentation is evidenced by important awards, such as the President’s Prize for Sculpture in Florence, the Arte Novara Prize, 1st and 2nd Prize at the Leonardo da Vinci Biennale in Rome, and the Prize with the Conferment of the Title of Bearer of the Sacred Fire of Art – ROSSO FUOCO RUBEDO 2026 at the Teatro Comunale di Novoli (LE), as well as a constant presence in institutional and academic contexts: from exhibitions at the ABA in Lecce and the Aragonese Castle in Otranto, to thematic exhibitions at the MACC in Cisternino and in prestigious state libraries. She is a member of the ScriptorArt San Nicola (LE) Literary Artistic Collective.
