Annonziata Fanucchi has developed a pictorial practice rooted in a constant dialogue between her Italian origins and her life in Quebec. Born in Italy and immigrating to Sept-Îles at the age of 10, Anna completed her studies and spent her adult life in Montreal. She now lives in the Laurentians, a region that nourishes her connection to nature and amplifies the contrast between her two foundational cultures. Her regular stays in Italy rekindle a vivid memory of landscapes, light, architecture, and emotions, which blend with her North American experience to shape a unique pictorial universe.

 

Her approach relies on technical versatility—oil, acrylic, mixed media—which she employs depending on the subject matter to create works where material and texture are integral to the expression. This mastery allows her to explore both abstraction and figuration, always with a focus on emotion, color, and sensory experience.

 

The artist also draws on the legacy of the Italian Renaissance, reinterpreting its light, perspective, and compositional balance with a decidedly contemporary approach. Renaissance humanism—a focus on human dignity, a quest for harmony and beauty—forms a foundation for her, one she updates through her experience of migration, rootedness, and cultural mobility.

 

At the heart of her practice, Anna seeks an essential, non-decorative beauty: a beauty that reveals the depth of reality, the power of places, and the complexity of human connections. Her painting is both technical and sensitive, introspective and narrative, poised between tradition and contemporaneity. Each work thus becomes a bridge between memory and the present, between Italy and Quebec, between identity and territory.