There is always a woman in the room who knows exactly what is happening. For over forty years, Azzopardi has been painting desire.
The Art of Attraction
Female desire has always been the most interesting thing in the room
Azzopardi came to fine art through desire. The desire to paint her own ideas, her own subjects, her own obsessions: women, men, fruit, objects, secrets, imagination. The subjects were multiple. The theme was always one.
Her visual language is unmistakably her own. Strong, defining lines. Bright, saturated colour. Red lipstick. A smile. Lashings of fun.
At first glance it is a pleasure — bright, witty, immediately seductive. And that is precisely the point. Wrapped inside the pleasure is the truth about female desire: the thrill of wanting, the joy, the vulnerability, the ridiculousness, and the pain. She just made sure it was beautiful enough that you might not notice immediately. And then you do.
Lichtenstein’s women are waiting, Azzopardi’s are doing the looking
Strong lines. Saturated colour. Red lipstick. A smile. The pleasure is immediate. What’s underneath it takes longer.
Some paintings stay with you before you have even decided why. To own an Azzopardi is less about acquisition than recognition, the particular satisfaction of looking at a painting that already knows something about you.
View originals and limited edition silkscreen prints. Each hand signed by Deborah. Each with a story behind it.
To own one of these paintings is to choose what artwork you want looking back at you from your wall. That, it turns out, is not an easy decision.
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