Biography

Raffaella della Olga was born in Villasola (Cisano Bergamasco), a small village near Bergamo (IT). She lives and works between Paris and Haute-Isle (FR).

For more than a decade she has chosen to work with modified typewriters to make unique books, finding in this tool a way to write and draw her own path toward abstraction. What began as a concept — to be an analog artist in a digital age, to seek freedom through mechanical gestures — has become an ongoing exploration of the space of the page.

Expanding her field of abstraction, della Olga also works with geometric, patterned fabrics, which she incises at regular intervals. Draped over a neon tube, these fabrics acquire dimensionality, much as her books transform the flatness of the page.

In 2022 she began working in painting — her “vertical adventure” — with a series of pieces based on the grid, conceived as a wall, typed on monochrome backgrounds. From this point, a wide field of experimentation opened, ranging from purely black-and-white graphics to painterly effects achieved entirely with the typewriter.