I always feel strong emotions when I think of and see the works of art created by Anna Maria and Alessandra’s mother. They awaken memories of when I was a child and I used to see her leaning over her table having fun with stickers of all sizes and colours, creating fantastic stories or retelling…

It is fascinating to write about Elena Guaccero again after 14 years, when I graduated in cultural heritage conservation at Ca’ Foscari with a thesis on her. Thinking back on it now, as I am writing these words, I think it was she who planted in me the seed of curiosity about all the ‘industrious’…

I have always thought of Elena as a researcher, a sort of speleologist curious about the meaning of things. I am not ashamed to say that as a child I imagined her wearing an explorer’s hat armed with chisel, compass and magnifying glass. Yes, because it always seemed to me that playing, colours and stories…

One of the last times I saw my sister-in-law Elena, she was sitting in her dining room with sticky paper tape in her hands. She had turned her dining table into a workbench and on the protective sheet she had scattered an assortment of rolls: from toilet rolls and paper towels rolls to stiffer cardboard…

Elena's alphabet is a whim, an artistic whim. She succeeds in translating a system of graphic signs, in itself abstract, into visual representations with an immediate expressive impact, drawings in brilliant colours that draw on a collective, historical, familiar imagery – making us participants and accomplices – and at the same time an imagery that…

I had the privilege of meeting Elena Guaccero in the early 1990s. Her house, as often happens, spoke of her even before I met her. It was a particular house, something beautiful but unusual, a modern and elegant imprint, different from the other houses I had seen in Venice. Colour was a very important element,…

A Tour of Elena Guaccero's Home and Studio 29-30 May 2023, Association of Friends of Venetian Museums and Monuments For members of the Association of Friends of Venetian Museums and Monuments, entering the fantasy world of Elena Guaccero was a privilege. It was a special visit made possible by the generosity of her daughters Alessandra…

I never met Elena, and it is one of those emotions that I regret not having experienced. My relationship with her began by chance. A few months after she had passed away, I was politely asked for my opinion (as if I were Federico Zeri!) on the “little paper works” and “little wood works” she…

The squaring of the circle is one of the three famous geometric problems of antiquity. Dating back to the origins of geometry, it kept mathematicians busy for centuries with the aim of forming a square with the same area as the circle. The two most influential Greek philosophers in history, Plato and Aristotle, considered geometry…