CRISTINA MIGLIORINI-BUSATO

For me, art is not a choice, but a vital need for communication, healing, and transcendence.

My practice emerges from the dialogue between artistic creation and the internal martial arts I have practiced for many years. I seek to act without force, allowing the gesture to arise intuitively and transforming the creative process into a form of meditation.

My work explores the concept of "errar / errare": to wander and, at the same time, to err; to move forward without a map, to stray, to get lost, and to find oneself again.

Every detour opens a possibility. Every stumble leaves a crack through which light can enter.

The journey that interests me has no external destination. It is a movement inward, a return to oneself.

In my paintings, I reject the straight line and the pursuit of perfection. Emptiness, matter, and gesture become spaces where the conscious and unconscious can emerge without being forced. The mark does not seek to impose a form, but to follow its own course, like water, allowing what lies deep within to appear: memory, shadow, silence, and light.

My work emerges from the fragmented. I recover materials, organic elements, and objects transformed by time to create new forms. I do not conceal the scar; I integrate it. The process thus becomes a metaphor for our capacity to transform rupture into beauty.

In photography, I also seek a truth without filters. Grain, shadow, and accident become part of the language. The light that emerges during the developing process becomes a metaphor for the clarity that arises from the unknown.

My passion for art began at the age of three, when I was already spending my days drawing. That early calling gradually took shape through my education and has since evolved into a lifelong journey of learning, exploration, and personal discovery.

Over the years, I have expanded and refined my visual language through a wide range of disciplines and encounters with different teachers. I studied analogue photography in Italy with photographer Andrea Lomazzi and in Madrid at the Flash School of Photography; illustration in Buenos Aires with Mónica Weiss and in Barcelona with Jaume Cluet, a collaborator of Bruno Munari on the Tantibambini children’s book collection; contemporary painting in Paris with Akiko Toriumi; and printmaking in Barcelona with María Pujol.

I also trained in the restoration of antique paintings at the Scuola Nazionale di Restauro del Mobile Antico in Genoa, as well as in Chinese calligraphy, cyanotype, and other techniques with different teachers, including photographer Miguel Oriola Soler, whose approach to photography sparked my fascination with the aesthetics of the Japanese Provoke movement. This diversity of experiences has continuously expanded my way of seeing and deepened my understanding of matter, gesture, and the creative process.

Alongside my artistic training, I completed my studies in Art Therapy in Italy in 2021, further exploring the relationship between artistic creation, inner experience, and processes of transformation.

I see art as a living practice: a way of expressing, observing, and exploring the world and the self, always open to change and discovery.

My artistic journey has unfolded across different creative environments, from 59Rivoli in Paris to NauArt in Barcelona, each contributing to the evolution of my practice.

My work has received recognition from Italian art critics, including Vittorio Sgarbi and Paolo Levi, and my photographic research was selected as a finalist for Descubrimientos PHotoESPAÑA 2023. My photography is also represented on international platforms such as LensCulture.

Today, from my atelier in Mijas, Andalusia, I understand art as a living practice and a space of encounter: a frontier between North and South, Europe and Africa, the inner and outer worlds, matter and spirit, and the known and the yet-to-emerge.

Working from this border, I explore art as a continuous process of transformation, where creation becomes a way of crossing thresholds, shifting perspectives, and discovering new ways of seeing both the world and the self.