female artists

Who’s next?… Vera Pagava

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by Valentina Biondini, art and literature amateur

The Great Suburb, 1953

Vera Pagava (1907-1988) was the first Georgian female artist to gain recognition in the European art world. She was a well-rounded artist, devoted herself to drawing, decoration, and especially painting over the course of a fifty years career. She emigrated to Europe with her family in the 1920s, shortly before Georgia’s annexation by the Soviet Union. First, she settled in Germany and then in Paris, where she remained for the rest of her life, while maintaining strong ties to her homeland. Read more →

Who’s next?… Nori de’ Nobili

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by Valentina Biondini, art and literature amateur

Nori de’ Nobili, self-portrait

Nori (Eleonora) de’ Nobili is a painter and poet originatig of Marche, who spent half of her life in a mental hospital. Nori, the eldest of four children, was born in Pesaro in 1902 in a very wealthy family with whom she used to spend her childhood summers at the beautiful house known as “Villa Centofinestre” in Ripe, a small town in the province of Ancona. Read more →

Open dialogues: Roberta Bertazzini

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by Margaret Sgarra, contemporary art curator

Libero arbitrio

Roberta Bertazzini, is a visual artist with a predilection for installation-based works, she creates multi-material pieces which articulate in space and lend themselves to multiple interpretations. Fundamental is the relationship between structure and concept, expression and form. Aspects that, in most cases, dialogue with the user. So that, the viewer acquires a prominent role within the creative process, while remaining anonymous. Read more →

Elisa Zadi/The pictorial act as a search for truth and beauty

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by Romina Ciulli and Carole Dazzi

Bruciare illusioni, PicNic (2023)

The portrait, and the self-portrait, are the forms with which the artist Elisa Zadi investigates the bond between man and nature. A research that ranges from painting to installation, from performance to poetry, and that through an intimate and introspective path focuses on issues related to femininity, identity, and knowledge. In her works the human figure stands out in all its frank and refined frontality, giving life to a narrative that is not only pictorial, but above all anthropological and existential. Thus emerges a spontaneous and suggestive creative act, often represented through the fragmented idea of polyptychs, where the images seem to make use of a symbolic connotation to reflect on the complexity and fleetingness of everyday reality and human relationships. Read more →

Open dialogues: Cristina Barbieri

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by Margaret Sgarra, contemporary art curator

Cristina Barbieri is a visual artist born in Reggio Emilia, city where she graduated as a Master of Arts in the”Goldsmithing-Metals” section, and where she obtained a specialization in Marble Sculpture. Starting from 2022 she began to be interested in bioart and biodiversity. This passion led her to undertake an investigation towards mycology, which today is a central issue of her research and artistic poetic.

 

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