The influence of classical painting onGena Bordi's work goes back to her childhood when her grandmother introduced her toGiotto's frescoes in the church of Arena in Padua.
Later she learnt to paint in the copyists'workshops : Fra Angelico, Antonello da Messina, Rogier Van DerWeyden, Rembrandt, Vermeer…She learned the techniques of the ancient :wax, egg tempera, glue tempera, oil glaze.
Naturally she starts to paint herself,then she becomes interested in movement. One thing leading to another, shestarts to paint fantasies in which she takes herself as a model.
Working on movement leads her to rethinkthe frame and at the same time the support.
She paints on wood, divides her paintingsinto several parts, all mobile, all interchangeable.
There is an original version and anotherone where everything is mixed. From figurative, the painting becomes abstract,from realistic to surreal. What might have seemed crude is no longer so, itbecomes poetic and mysterious.