Aria - contemporary paintress

Biography

Writing and painting have always been sources and tools of pure joy and freedom for me. The sign, its expressive and creative power have always intrigued and fascinated me. In developing the sign, the signifier and its multiple possible meanings, I became passionate about our beautiful language, and I became a journalist, a writer, a cartoonist, a painter.

If I had to give an indication of my painting, I could perhaps define it as an "evasionist": art is a journey of the soul outside the walls of our rational mind, it allows it to cross the darkness and expand into the light, to immerse yourself in the depths of itself, to then soar and free itself in the Soul of the World.

The Greek poet Nikos Kazantzakis wrote: "You have the brush, you have the colours, you paint Heaven and then enter it". To those who look at my paintings, I would just like to suggest: drop everything, even if only for a moment, take a deep breath ... and travel with me.

ARTISTIC COLLABORATIONS

Dario Fo - painter, set designer, actor, director, writer, playwriter

Augusto Callegari - painter, engraver, graphic designer and chalcographer

Francesco Vaglica - painter and master of art

Sergio Tamassia - painter, graphic artist and master of art

Franco Crocco - painter, engraver, master of art

Marco Camilletti - painter and master of art

Marcella Clarici - painter and master of art

Paola Lattanzi - painter and master of art

Eleonora Albanese - painter, sculptor and graphic designer

Alessandro Piccinini - painter and graphic designer

Gianfranco Pirrone - painter and sculptor

EDUCATION / ARTISTIC STUDIES

1994-97 - School of Figurative Arts of the DLF Association - Culture Sector of via Bari 20 - Rome. Life drawing in pencil and figurative oil painting. Teacher: Marcella Clarici

1995-96 - VIRIDIAN Art Studio by Francesco Vaglica - Life drawing in pencil and school of art nudes - Rome

1997-2000 - Studio LA BOTTEGA di Augusto Callegaris - Oil and acrylic painting, life drawing with the techniques of pencil, chalks, charcoal, sanguine and India ink, realization of monotypes in tempera with the torchio technique (printing press) - Rome

2000-2006 - Artist's Studio Arte Progetto Idea by Paola Lattanzi - Rome: oil and watercolor painting, school of art nudes , impromptu and landscape painting en pleinair

2007 - School of Applied Arts PANDORA - Sorano (GR). Painting Techniques Course. Life drawing in pencil and charcoal, landscape painting en plenair in oil - Teacher: Sergio Tamassia

2008 - LIGNARIUS Art Center - Course of trompe l'oeil, fake marble and acrylic painting decoration - Rome

2010 - Dario Fo's art and writing studio - Sala (FC) and Loc. S. Cristina (PG) - pencil and marker drawing, painting and illustration in acrylic

2017-2020 - "Ettore Rolli" School of Art and Crafts of Rome Capital - Rome. Life drawing in pencil, charcoal, chalk, sanguine and figurative painting in acrylic and in oil - Teachers: Franco Crocco - Marco Camilletti.

ARTISTIC EXPERIENCES

1994-1997 - Collective didactic EXHIBITIONS of the students of the School of Figurative Arts of the DLF Association - Culture Sector of via Bari 20 - Rome

September 1996 - ART IN THE PORTICO V EDITION - collective exhibition en plein air in the Colli Aniene district - Rome (Sogester organization with the patronage of the Municipality of Rome and the master sculptor Alfiero Nena)

December 1996 - QUINT'ART First Tiburtina Exhibition - Art in the V District - collective exhibition at the Cherubini Music Center and Tiburtina Shopping Center - Rome

April / May 1998 - IL GIORNALE DEL MATTINO newspaper - Publication of humorous cartoons on current affairs, politics, customs, society

December 2000 - REFLECTIONS AND EMOTIONS - collective exhibition in the Art-Project-Idea Studio in via Pomezia 18 - Rome

September 2001 - IN THE SHADOW OF ANCIENT APPIA - Between the ruins and the greenery of Rome - collective exhibition at the headquarters of Legambiente and Ente Parco Appia Antica - Rome (with the patronage of the Lazio Region and the Superintendence of Fine Arts)

October / November / December 2001 - ARTISTS IN THE CLOISTER - collective exhibitions at the Basilica dei SS. Cosma and Damiano, the Confraternity of S. Giovanni dei Genovesi and the Teatro di San Crisogono in Trastevere - Rome (with the patronage of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage in collaboration with the Provveditorato di Roma)

December 2001 - ARTISTS FOR TELETHON - collective exhibitions at the headquarters of the Telethon Foundation General Management and the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro in via S. Nicola da Tolentino 18 - Rome

February 2002 - TOGETHER FOR A SINGLE VOICE - collective exhibition in the Gallery Studio d’Artista Art Project Idea in via di San Giovanni in Laterano 59 - Rome

March 2002 - ARTISTS IN THE SQUARE - collective exhibition in the Cloister of the Basilica of San Clemente - Rome

July 2002- MANGI’ARTE - artistic and gastronomic event en plein air in the Park of Piazza Benedetto Cairoli - Rome

September 2002 - CRAFTS AND DECOUPAGE - collective exhibition en plein air in the garden of Il Rustico Restaurant in Santa Lucia di Mentana - Rome

December 2002 - ARTISTS IN THE SQUARE - collective exhibition en plein air at S. Maria delle Mole in Ciampino - Rome

March 2003 - THE MASKS OF LOVE - artistic-literary happening in the Gallery Studio d’Artista Arte Project Idea in via di San Giovanni in Laterano 59 - Rome

April 2003 - THE PATH OF EROS - artistic-literary happening in the Gallery Studio d’Artista Arte Project Idea in via di San Giovanni in Laterano 59 - Rome

June 2003 - THE NIGHT OF THE WITCHES - WITCH OR FAIRY WOMAN? - artistic-theatrical happening in the '800 Cafeteria in via di San Giovanni in Laterano (with the patronage of the Lazio Region, the Province of Rome, the Municipality of Rome Department of Culture, the Town Hall of the Historic Center, Legambiente and the Lazio Confartigianato)

May 2004 - ROME NATURAE PRIZE II EDITION - competition for paintings in the Caffarella Park at the Tomb of Annia Regilla / Tempio del Dio Redicolo - Rome (with the patronage of the Lazio Region, the Province of Rome, the Municipality of Rome, ANCI National Association of Italian Municipalities and UPI Union of Italian Provinces).

March-September 2010 - IL BOCCACCIO RIVEDUTO E CORRETTO- collaboration in the realization of drawings and illustrations for the essay by Dario FO (Guanda Ed.)

February 2014 - PERCHE’ GLI SVIZZERI SONO PIU’ INTELLIGENTI - design and creation of the cover of the essay by Rosaria Guerra and Jacopo Fo (Barbera Ed.)

March / August 2014 - RSI TELEVISION SWITZERLAND - Sweetzerland Blog - Publication of humorous cartoons on current affairs, politics, customs, society

June 2018 – Didactic EXHIBITION of the students of the painting workshop of the School of Art and Crafts of Rome Capital "Ettore Rolli" in via Macedonia 120 - Rome

June 2019 - THE ROOFS OF ROME - collective exhibition of the students of the painting workshop of the "Ettore Rolli" School of Arts and Crafts in Rome, Via Macedonia 120 - Rome