"DON'T BE AFRAID. CHANGE IS CUSH A BEAUTIFUL THING", SAID THE BUTTERFLY.
Sabrina Newby
To draw one's freedom in the air and feel as light as butterflies.
Dancing already means lifting off the ground, feeling lighter—in body and in soul. And what if you found yourself in front of images as ethereal and delicate as butterflies?
That is how Chiara Del Vecchio, through delicate layers of color—like silk wings—paints timeless figures that seem to rise from the ground like butterflies, in a celebration of color, light, and lightness. They play, intertwine, and whirl, creating momentary sculptures on the canvas.
Gently, they fly through nature, tracing imperceptible yet perfect lines. Butterflies, like classical ballerinas, are elegance in motion—grace and magic. Their movements are art and beauty.
Chiara Del Vecchio sets herself an ambitious goal: to capture this magnificent lightness with her airbrush. Butterflies holds within it the elegance of nature.
To draw one’s freedom in the air, to leave an invisible trail like a silent signature—this is the gesture that connects a butterfly in flight and a ballerina in motion. Both hover weightlessly, yet with absolute precision. Both are, by nature, epiphanies of grace. It is precisely at this meeting point—between the beat of wings and the dance step—that Butterflies finds its foundation.
Ballerinas appear as if suspended. Bodies in flight, ethereal presences dissolving into the air like butterflies. These are not realistic portraits, nor mere studies of movement. They are suspended images, immersed in a rarefied time, evoking more than representing. In them, the artist restores to the dancing body its most immaterial dimension—where technique becomes poetry, and balance becomes levitation.
Like butterfly wings, the ballerinas of Butterflies cannot be grasped. They intertwine, chase each other, glide through the space of the canvas. They are momentary sculptures of air, figures that form and dissolve, revealing the ephemeral essence of movement. The choice to link ballerinas and butterflies is not only poetic but deeply symbolic. Both embody metamorphosis—continuous transformation. The ballerina is never just a body: she is discipline, but also surrender; presence, but also dream. Like the butterfly, she lives in the contrast between fragility and perfection, between instinct and form. In both, we find one of the highest expressions of harmony between the visible and the intangible.
In Butterflies, Chiara Del Vecchio does not represent—she evokes. She does not tell us a story but offers us a threshold: between matter and spirit, gesture and aura, memory and vision. Her lightness is a declaration of intent—against the heaviness of the world, against the obligation to be clear. In each work, she invites us to feel the beauty of transience, to rediscover the wonder of what exists only for a moment.
In this collection, Chiara Del Vecchio fuses two universal symbols of lightness and transformation into a single vision: the ballerina and the butterfly. Both move through space with grace and precision, tracing silent choreographies made of balance and fleetingness. One embodies the discipline of gesture, the other the instinct of nature. In their visual union, the artist celebrates the beauty of ephemeral motion, giving us back the wonder of what exists only for an instant—and lingers in memory.