Gloria Ronchi is involved in Visual Art as a medium of her narration. Through painting, drawings, video and lighting installations she often combines her artwork to express the feeling of the ‘Liquid Modernity’. “I look for aesthetic challenges of light in stunning and diverse ways, exploring its creative potential to express ideas and emotions, creating surprising encounters”. Her artwork does not give answers but rather raises questions, reflecting the daily contradictions of human experience in the liquidmodern world as defined in Bauman’s literature.
Forest Collection “My current work is inspired by the aesthetic of the forest, all its structures, the richness of lines, planes and visual layers, the strong contrast and the changing light condition. Many different aspects of the forest fascinate me; one is the memory of enchanted forests in fairy stories, visions and feelings that bring me back to my childhood. Another is the richness of its contradictions: its epical strength along with its fragile beauty; its enigmatic depth and its vulnerability.� Last production of Gloria’s paintings is based on the theme of sustainability and the aim is to vehicle this contemporary issue to the public through the knowledge that can be imparted by art, with its entire aesthetic and cultural dimension.
Flood Forest Available for sale
Forest
Night Forest
My Forest
The Path
Beech Forest
Levity Available for sale
High Trees
Green Forest
The Tree
MySky Collection “My current work is inspired by the aesthetic of the forest, all its structures, the richness of lines, planes and visual layers, the strong contrast and the changing light condition. Many different aspects of the forest fascinate me; one is the memory of enchanted forests in fairy stories, visions and feelings that bring me back to my childhood. Another is the richness of its contradictions: its epical strength along with its fragile beauty; its enigmatic depth and its vulnerability.� Last production of Gloria’s paintings is based on the theme of sustainability and the aim is to vehicle this contemporary issue to the public through the knowledge that can be imparted by art, with its entire aesthetic and cultural dimension.
Cloud’s Trees
High Trees
High Trees II
Freedom
Fly
High Trees
Branches
Branches II
Fragility I
Infinite
Fragility II
Sky’s Trees I
Sky’s Trees II
Sky’s Trees III
Water’s reflection Unremitting oscillation of lights and shadows, the alternating of full and liquid brush strokes, the exact but unpredictable match of complimentary colours awake the perception of the everlasting flow of time. In this metaphysical state the subtle call of the light’s reflection on water emerges from our pre-birth floating memories and brings us towards a peaceful and calm state of mind, as in a primordial and primitive stage of life. Light and colour have both the power to transform mood, atmosphere and meaning; in Gloria’s work they become the place where our intimacy can embrace the infinity of the world. At first glance her ‘reflections’ paintings let us only imagine what’s above the banks. Water flowing on raw linen canvas gives life to an endless series of generous representations, which allows you to escape and travel with absolute freedom to all the places you care to imagine. The colours’ orchestration appears in all its richness: from the bluedominated reflections other colours as white, yellow or orange emerge interrupting the water‘s lull and break in the painting with urgency. Gloria structures the work through fluent musical lines: the lights are decomposed; they recreate a game that is truly a musical game. Her canvases recall Kandinsky for the spiritual strength of the spaces and light blue and yellow colours sounding as a musical composition. We get carried away in a path of sensations, perceptions, sights, emotions, unveiling hidden shapes and colours. So we can retrace the paths of the artist and lose ourselves in their fluidity or simply wander in dreams, following our imaginary places and characters.
Aquatic Reflection I
Aquatic Reflection II
Intensity
Melody
On Water
Rain I
Rain II
Reflection I
Reflection II
Reflection III
Utopia
Water’s Trees
Waters’ Dream
Tree’s Reflection
Water’s Reflection I
Water’s Reflection II
Water’s Reflection III
Waters I
Waters II
Waters III
Waters IV
In The Rain I
In The Rain II
Liquidity I
Liquidity II
Taa-Tic
Taaac
Taac-Tac-Taac-Tic
Tac
Tactic
Ti-Tic
Tic
Tictac
Tiic-Tac
Tiic
Tiiic
Born in Milan in 1975, Gloria was graduated in 1999 from Politecnico of Milano and, in the same year, came in touch with famed artists like J. Borges and H. Nitsch at the Internationale Sommerakademie in Salzburg (Austria). In 2004 she obtained an MA from Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. Some of her works are in the MIDA Museum in Italy (International Museum of Women in Art). EDUCATION 2003-2004 MA from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, Italy. 1999-2003 School of Art of Castello Sforzesco in Milan, Italy 1994-1999 Degree, Politecnico of Milano, Italy COURSES 1999 - Internationale Sommerakademie in Salzburg (Austria) with J. Borges and H. Nitsch 2000 - “Interactive new media” Polytechnic University of Milan, Milan, Italy AWARDS 2006 – 1st prize Painting award Trofeo Almirante Conde de Barcelona, Palma (Spain) 2004 – Gold Medal for Art, Castello Sforzesco di Milano 2002 – 1st prize Painting award “Giuseppe Frigerio“, Corsico , Milan 1997 – 1st prize Painting award “Parole e Immagini“, Cernusco , Milan
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2011 – Ben Haslams Hallgate Gallery, Hexham, United Kingdom 2011 – Collettiva, Circolo Culturale B. Brecht Gallery, Milan 2010 – Art Fair, Gateshead, United Kingdom 2009 – Art for Youth North 2009, Topcliffe, United Kingdom 2009 – Spring Exhibition, The Biscuit Factory, United Kingdom 2009 – Defnicity, Middlesbrough City Hall, United Kingdom 2008 – Autumn Art at Tennant’s, Leyburn, United Kingdom 2008 – Ludlow Summer Exhibition, Shrophire, United Kingdom 2007 – For Giorgio Gaber, Palazzo della Ragione, Milan 2005 – There is a time and a place, Bareggia, Milan 2004 – Collettiva, Circolo Culturale B. Brecht Gallery, Milan 2004 – Eat art, Associazione culturale arte da mangiare, Milan 2003 – Return to Itaca, S. Fedele Gallery, Milan 2003 – Collettiva, Circolo Culturale B. Brecht Gallery, Milan 2003 – LessThan30, Spazio Hajech Gallery, Milan 2002 – For Angelo Tenchi, Como 2002 – Young Artists, S. Fedele Gallery, Milan 2000 – Collettiva, Villa Burba Gallery, Rho , Milan 1999 – Open Studio, Fortress Hohensalzburg, Salzburg (Austria) 1998 – Collettiva “Circolo Culturale G. Greppi”, Bergamo SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2007 – Waters, City Hall, Bellusco, Milan 2006 – Water’s Thoughts, City Hall, Ornago, Milan 2005 – Waters, Lampugnani’s Castle, Subiate, Milan 2004 – Water Sounds, City Hall, Bellusco, Milan 2004 – Reflections, Villa Facchi, Casatenovo, Milan 2003 – Water’s made, Annotazioni d’arte Gallery, Milan http://www.annotazioni.com/imageopere/opereronchi.htm 2003 – Water’s dream, Gallery in Villa Camperio, Milan 2002 – Water’s Utopia, City Hall di Merate, Milan COLLECTIONS 2005 –MIDA Museum (curator Lino Alviani), Scontrone, Aquileia http://www.museoartedonna.org/ro_choice2005/15.htm PUBLICATIONS Pastel techniques, CroMa Magazine, Maimeri edition http://www.maimeri.it/Croma/index.asp?pub=19&mnu=0302 Oil Paintings: uses and techniques, CroMa Magazine, Maimeri edition http://www.maimeri.it/croma/index.asp?pub=22&mnu=0304
+44(0)7832 377281 gloria.ronchi@gmail.com