Antonella Romano (1986) started studying painting in 2006 with the artist Alberto Parres.
She graduated in International Relations and got a master's degree in Law and Economics in Rome. She studied visual art at Rome University of Fine Arts - RUFA paying particular attention to figurative art.
S T A T E M E N T
The boundary – real, symbolic or imaginary – is the privileged place within the artistic research develops.
The morphology of identity and home, as well as the attention to omissions and heritage, power and authority, are the cornerstones of the artistic elaboration.
Wobbling into the threshold, the research gives way to the creative act when trespassing occurs:
in these way, images archived over the years – taken from magazines or newspapers, memories, from photographs taken on the street or on the net – become painting; while the materials - collected over time without premeditative logic - turn into the installation.
All human knowledge remains fallible, conjectured. There are more established theories than others, but never certain. We read the world with the grammar of our cultural memory.
Exhibitions
2020
Premiati Oggi, Arte e Mestieri 2020Award Exhibition, curated by Mauro Carrera, Bertazzoni Suzzara Foundation, Mantova (IT)
2019
Toys, Solo Exhibition curated by Emiliano Coletta, Teatro di Tordinona, Roma (IT)
Cramum Prize 2019, Finalists Exhibition curated by Sabino Maria Frassà, Villa Bagatti Valsecchi, Varedo (IT)
Arte in Arte e Mestieri Award, Finalists Exhibition, Bertazzoni Suzzara Foundation, Mantova (IT)
2018
Virtual Art Museum VAM, Group Exhibition curated by Mauro Carrera
Salerno Biennale of Contemporary Art, Group Exhibition, Palazzo Fruscione, Salerno (IT)
2017
LYNX International Contemporary Art Award, Finalists Exhibition, Lokarjeva Galerija– Ajdovščina (SL)
LYNX Award, Finalists Exhibition, Lux Art Gallery - Trieste (IT)
2015
Medusa Aurea Award XXXVIII, International Academy of Modern Art (A.I.A.M.), Winners Exhibition, Rome (IT)
International Biennial of Art and Culture 2015, RomART, International Group Exhibition, Rome (IT)
Rome Cavalieri, Solo Exhibition curated by Franco Maria Ricci, Rome Cavalieri, Rome (IT)
Rigenerazioni, Group Exhibition curated by Viviana Vannucci, Contemporary Art Museum MACRO Factory Rome (IT)
2014
Materia e Visioni, Micro EXPO Group Exhibition curated by Paola Valori, Plus Arte Puls Gallery, Rome (IT)
Publications
Magazine
Article "Premio Arte 2017" on Arte magazine N. 528, 2017, published by Giorgio Mondadori-Cairo Editore
Catalogue
Arte in Arte e Mestieri Award - Suzzara, 2018
LYNX, published by Franco Rosso Editore, 2017
International Biennial of Art and Culture of Rome, 2015
Materia e Visioni, Micro EXPO Gallery, 2014
Published Book
Cuccurucucu - What motivates a human being to move forward? , Sabino Maria Frassà, 2019, Cramum
Why we must be proud of being Italian: thirty-five experts analyze our national identity, Prof. Pierluigi Cascioli, 2016, published by Aracne Editrice
Awards
2019
Finalist of the Cramum Prize 2019, Varedo (IT)
Special Jury Mention - Arte in Arte e Mestieri Award 2019, Fondazione “F. Bertazzoni ”Suzzara, Mantova (IT)
2018
Special Jury Mention - Arte in Arte e Mestieri Award 2018, “F. Bertazzoni ”Suzzara, Mantova (IT)
2017
Finalist International Prize for Contemporary Art LYNX, A.C.I.S., Trieste (IT)
Selected Premio Arte, Cairo Editore, Milan (IT)
2015
Winner of the Medusa Aurea XXXVIII Award, AIAM, International Academy of Modern Art (A.I.A.M.), Rome (IT)
Finalist Award - Rigenerazioni, Museum of Contemporary Art (MACRO Factory), Rome (IT)