Tambani's biography

Chiara Tambani was born in Siena . She attended the Art Institute "Duccio di Buoninsegna" and improved her natural attitude for sculpture graduating, in the eighties, at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, where she attended sculpture courses held by the great artist Alik Cavaliere, already teacher and director of the Academy itself.

The meeting with Cavaliere, one of the finest and unique sculptors of the late twentieth century, influenced Tambani’ s way to take possession of the substance, shaping it, searching for new forms of expression, through the use of different sculptural techniques. Her works take life through the skillful use of various materials, especially clay, wood and metals, and her compositions have metaphorical meanings. Chiara Tambani’s works tell about mankind’s history with its passions, feelings and dream journeys. Her sculptures are strongly connected with nature and have soft shapes, as a result of a constant and harmonious handling of “Mother Earth”.

Demeter sculpture, created in 2010 for the Museum of Natural Sciences Academy of Fisiocritici, evoke the call to Mother Earth, goddess of wheat and agriculture, nurse of youth and the green earth, advocate of life and death.

Chiara Tambani created many sculptures for her home town, as the great bronze depicting a dragon, dedicated to the “Contrada del Drago” (1986), the Tribute to the old jockeys of the Palio di Siena (12 August 1998) or the bronze effigy of St. Catherine, created for the Policlinico "Le Scotte" in 2001. She also was the author of the three sculptures, commissioned in 1999 by the Municipality of Leonessa (Rieti) for the Square “Madre Teresa di Calcutta”: the project consists of three sculptural configurations of commemorative tradition, full of signs that evoke daily life. Her works follow two great streams and paths: the classical and the informal, more and more "organic", made of recycled materials and related to the world of nature.

Tambani’ s sculptures have got a consciousness of real sculpture, both when they represent figurative subjects or images with no references to the contingent reality and everyday life.

Luca Mansueto