Silvia Balostro

“The transformation of real”

After achieved graduating high school student at the Artistic institute Nicolò Barabino of Genoa, Silvia Balostro has obtained the certificate of additional frequency of the supplementary course for graduates of art schools. After she has attended the course of "History of the book manuscript" with recognition of ancient scriptures, at the Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples and gets the Academic University three-year Diploma of "Restorer of works of art in wood support", awarded by the 'Institute for the Restoration Ligneo City of Piacenza - Reggia di Caserta, in the offices of Piacenza (1st year), of Palace of Caserta and of the University Suor Orsola Benincasa of Naples (2nd - 3rd year).
Silvia Balostro at work in her atelier

After achieved graduating high school student at the Artistic institute Nicolò Barabino of Genoa, Silvia Balostro has obtained the certificate of additional frequency of the supplementary course for graduates of art schools. After she has attended the course of "History of the book manuscript" with recognition of ancient scriptures, at the Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples and gets the Academic University three-year Diploma of "Restorer of works of art in wood support", awarded by the 'Institute for the Restoration Ligneo City of Piacenza - Reggia di Caserta, in the offices of Piacenza (1st year), of Palace of Caserta and of the University Suor Orsola Benincasa of Naples (2nd - 3rd year).

Silvia Balostro at work in her atelier

Since 2003 she is working as a freelance profession of restorer of works of art in wood support in her laboratory located in loc. Fornacetta, 3 at Vignole Borbera (AL).
He has performed important work for the Historical, Artistic Heritage of the Superintendece of Piedmont and the Curia of Tortona, for The Historical, Artistic Heritage, of the Superintendence of Piedmont and the Archbishop of Genoa, in addition to getting numerous private clients in Piedmont and Liguria

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I met Silvia Balostro on a Sunday afternoon in September, when the sun still gives its warmth and relaxes its rays on the furnishings of a garden among the verdant grass, the wild flowers and red and fleshy geraniums adorning a terrace of Borbera Valley. Silvia is caressing two setter: mom and daughter in a competition to see who gets more pampering; She begins to talk about her work as a restorer. Her sweet eyes light up to my questions.

I met Silvia Balostro on a Sunday afternoon in September, when the sun still gives its warmth and relaxes its rays on the furnishings of a garden among the verdant grass, the wild flowers and red and fleshy geraniums adorning a terrace of Borbera Valley.
Silvia is caressing two setter: mom and daughter in a competition to see who gets more pampering; She begins to talk about her work as a restorer. Her sweet eyes light up to my questions.

Silvia is caressing two setter: mom and daughter in a competition to see who gets more pampering; She begins to talk about her work as a restorer. Her sweet eyes light up to my questions. Restoration work is not for her a simple manual action, is not a "do" but a "feel" the matter, in particular wood, with its remote and upcoming scents, colours that time has faded and those who will swaddle new light treasures on which she bends with enthusiasm and genuine passion.

The material and the imaginary

The colours of time	The approach to the art of Silvia is the same I have when I write: something indefinable that, for her, realizes in the Ancient Charm laboratory, for me on the white pages; chatting, I look out of a fascinating world and I find her ability to express, with great simplicity and naturalness, strong emotions and content that reveal her creativity in a form from which transpire joy and serenity, but also the desire to be every time involved before a new restoration with the right amount of determination that accompanies, between a brush and a solvent, the grandeur of a choir or the details of a liturgical throne rather than a pictorial reintegration, a golden brown, a wooden integration .

The colours of time

The approach to the art of Silvia is the same I have when I write: something indefinable that, for her, realizes in the Ancient Charm laboratory, for me on the white pages; chatting, I look out of a fascinating world and I find her ability to express, with great simplicity and naturalness, strong emotions and content that reveal her creativity in a form from which transpire joy and serenity, but also the desire to be every time involved before a new restoration with the right amount of determination that accompanies, between a brush and a solvent, the grandeur of a choir or the details of a liturgical throne rather than a pictorial reintegration, a golden brown, a wooden integration .

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The groove of the time

I'll leave Silvia with a promise to visit her in her lab and reluctantly leave the garden taking with me innovate feelings and the confirmation that dwells in mankind the yearning for beauty that captures the spirit of the Restorer whenever approaching a new restoration.

Cristina Raddavero.

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The magical alchemy of the atelier