Discovering our art collection: Claudia Losi

The UniCredit Art Collection is one of the largest corporate collections in Europe, comprising tens of thousands of various assets, from ancient archaeological finds to classical and contemporary works of art, as a result of the artistic choices and passion for art that has always characterised UniCredit. Particular attention has been paid to promoting young and emerging artists from the countries in which our Group is present, increasing their presence in the Collection of contemporary art works.

We strive to make art part of life for wider public, so we asked some of the artists to explain what art is and what it means to them.

Born in Piacenza in 1971, Claudia Losi focuses her artistic research on the relationship between human beings and nature, exploring travel and discovery as experiences of knowledge. A central aspect of her practice is a deep understanding of places, experienced through wandering and pausing.

Her interests span a range of disciplines, from the natural sciences, such as ethnology and geology, to geography, cartography, literature and poetry. Her works, in particular, emerge from long-term projects that evoke the expanded rhythms of nature in contrast with the shorter rhythms of human existence: from educational and cognitive processes to the transformations of lichens, glaciers and geological maps, moving from the micro to the macro – the two systems that together constitute the world we inhabit.

“Art for me is a work of translating my experience of the world and what I imagine to be the profound motives of life.” – Claudia Losi