FEDERICA GIULIANINI paper & fluid
Federica Giulianini was born in 1990 in Ravenna where she lives and works. After taking her diploma at the P.L. Nervi Art School of Ravenna, she enrolled at the Fine Arts Academy of Bologna where she took the three year degree course in painting and two year specialist course in visual arts/painting, receiving top marks. Her artistic research inquires into the optical vibrations of nature, fed on a poetic, historic cultural and mythological sensibility drawn from revisitation of her journals. Her itinerary includes mixed and eclectic techniques using old paper and wooden panels. She is strongly attached to painting and drawing that bring her decisive sign and chromatic component into relation. Federica is interested in the dynamics of nature, forms, lines and spaces, and in the in nite con gurations she generates from multiple free and living entities. In her words: “What I put forward at the heart of my artistic work is continual research and the desire to redesign the aesthetic language of pictorial form through my knowledge, originating those cosmoses and their alchemical details in new perspectives by overcoming the standards of current time�. This observation leaves questions and answers of free imagination for the beholder, setting a reaction on that suspended time which marks Federica’s painting. She began exhibiting in 2011 and has constantly taken part in solo and group shows, competitions and publications, artist residences and workshops in national and international galleries and museums.
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Federica Giulianini, micro worlds. Tobia DonĂ
The work that Federica Giulianini has been working for a few years is not only an aesthetic but an ethical project, a commitment to excellence in its lowest form, meticulous and imperceptible fragments of time and existence that she herself defines "micro worlds". They are like small points of a line, the endless coincidences that combine our lives, but more precisely what we are. The support used is paper. The choice of this material is already an investment of meaning. It is about ancient documents, from the early decades of the twentieth century, that her family has accumulated because of their work activities. Registers, records, documents of trade, linked to her history and that of her ancestors, and to the territory. Often combined with the immersion in water, in a kind of creative baptism, through a mixed telluric resurface and they come back to life in their former identity. Surfaces in which the artist now identify she herself, and where she found a place of thought to stay spiritually anchored , to reduce the borders and the distance that the creative act could establish with their world. Ravenna is the city of the Byzantine mosaics, of the colors and the ancient symbols, Federica lived there and there she developed her ideas that now reveal herself in the deep blacks, in colors sometimes bright, sometimes delicate, not based on the speed of improvisation, but on the vibrating sign that runs through trembling veins of a microscopic life. Positive and encouraging images of our partecipation at the great journey undertaken since the primordial explosion, if ever there was one. A handwriting of her femininity, in the context of nature. Are concretions of pigments able to reactivate metaphors and pre-birth instincts, composed of primordial energies which hold, as tight in a closed fist, all the things that will remain forever unknown to men. Genetic impulses of new forms, new figures, not instants locked in memory like sediments, but other possibilities on the metaphorical and dilated blackboard of time. A slow, a very, very slow emergence of forms which gradually have been transmuted and transformed, as if the deep mystery can not be revealed. It is the inexhaustible symbolic complexity of the more defined signs that provoke the same amazement felt by the ancients in front of the incomprehensible.
And once again the world that is above, below and within us, remains pure contemplation, in the incessant unfolding of stains and nebulae that were also alive once or who will become alive in short time, silent and inexhaustible fate of men and gods.
Frammenti terreni, five elements installation, water color ecoline on cotton paper, 31X23 cm, 2013
Luna – verde, mixed technique on cotton paper, 110X80 cm, 2013
Artificio Stato, mixed technique on mixed paper, 84X94 cm, 2013
Boschetto di caccia, mixed technique on paper, 55X38X56 cm, 2014
Disuguaglianza lineare, mixed technique on paper, 50x50 cm, 2014
Essenza di spino diffusa, mixed technique on paper, 69X25 cm, 2014
Balzo laborioso, mixed technique on paper, 40X40 cm, 2015
Il tempo dopo al veleno, mixed technique on paper, 78x65x58 cm, 2014
Sola foresta nera, mixed technique on paper, 50x50 cm, 2012
Senza titolo, inks, bitumen, graphite, 50x50cm, 2014
Novembre, mixed technique on paper, 100X100 cm, 2013
L'origine, mixed technique on paper, 110x100 cm, 2014
Lunghi stretti vicini della cima, mixed technique on paper, 55X48 cm, 2014
Naturalisioni, installation of 37 drawings, mixed technique on paper and on plexiglass, 17X23 cm cad, 2013
Monizigoti,monotype on cotton and rise paper, 110x40 cm, 2014
Personal exhibitions Emersions, critical text by Tobia Donà, Il Coccio Gallery, Ravenna Mythological records, curated by Giovanni Barberini, Concept Art Store, Art Workshop Liverani, Bagnacavallo, Ravenna Collective exhibitions 2015 Naturactonia – Atto 0, Preludio Alloctono, project room-picture video multimedia, curator and art director Fabrizio Fantini, Villa Savoia, Ravenna, Italy 10x10maw, curated by Valentina Colella, Gualtieri, Maw Gallery Sulmona (Aq), Italy International Award Marina of Ravenna 2015 "The Winners of Palace Rasponi" curated by Pericle Stoppa and Claudio Spadoni, Mar Museum of Ravenna city (in the catalogue) International Award 2015 Marina of Ravenna the 28 finalists, Art Gallery Lighthouse Marina of Ravenna, Ravenna (in the catalogue) Meteors curated by Bruno Bandini, S. Giacomo Palace, Russi, Ravenna (in the catalogue) In-Contro curated by Silvia Del Campo, Arte Fuori Centro Gallery, Rome (in the catalogue) The Landing, Spring of Art curated by Fabio Romano, Archaeological Museum of the Region of Sicily, Gela (in the catalogue) Autografie Giovanili curated by Patrizia Cauteruccio Ex- Court Palace, Ravenna Autografie in Galleria curated by Daniele Carnoli, Il Coccio Gallery, Ravenna To eat with your eyes curated by Valeria Tassinari Magi'900 Museum, Pieve of Cento Ferrara, Italy Heroic End of a Picture of 1400 performance curated by Luigi Presicce, Mambo Museum of Modern Art, Bologna Art - Off Academy of Fine Arts Bologna, c/o Bologna Art Fair curated by R. Novali, Bologna Italy 2014 Artists at Gervasia 2014 curated by Carlo Polgrossi, Bagnacavallo, Ravenna Second Level, selection by Giuseppe Lufrano, Otto Gallery, Bologna Under Pressure, curated by Maria Agata Amato, text by Bruno Bandini, Underground, Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, Bologna
Organic, curated by Fabio Romano, Underground, Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, Bologna Griffin Prize, Fabbrica del Vapore - Griffin Gallery, Milan/London Art - Off Academy of Fine Arts Bologna, c/o Bologna Art Fair curated by R. Novali, Bologna
2013 CaroCastroCaro, curated by Laura Villani, Entertainment Pavilion Tito Chini, Castrocaro Terme (FC) Free Book Essegi, curated by Patrizia Del Re and Paola Babini, Pini Foundation, BOOKcity, Milan Faro Fare Arte, curated by Beatrice Buscaroli, Paola Babini and Rinaldo Novali FaroArte Gallery, Marina of Ravenna Ravenna 2012 Free Book Essegi in Rome, curated by Massimo Arduini, ABA, Campo Boario, Rome Nouvelle Vague 5, curated by Beatrice Buscaroli and Bruno Bandini, Ex Chiesa in Albis, Russi Ravenna The smallest art gallery of the world, curated by Beatrice Buscaroli and Bruno Bandini, AmoBolognaPoesia Festival, Belle Arti street, Bologna Perspective and Singularity, curated by Massimiliano Fabbri, Sforza Palace, Cotignola Ravenna Faro Fare Arte, curated by Beatrice Buscaroli, Paola Babini and Rinaldo Novali Faro Arte Gallery, Marina of Ravenna Ravenna Awards and publications 2015 International Prize Marina of Ravenna 2015 curated and texts by Pericles Stoppa and Claudio Spadoni, a critical text by Francesca Piersanti catalogue Edizioni Capit Ravenna (selected and winner) RAM Award, Mar Art Museum of Ravenna city (Reported into painting section in the catalogue) MarchWomenDonne015, ExPescherie Gallery, Cesena curated by Cristina Barden, Department of the Policies of Differences of the Municipality of Cesena (selected)
2014 Espoarte Magazine n. # 86 - Special debutants - Espoarte talent scouting | A discovery today, a certainty tomorrow? | Interview by Chiara Serri 2013 Limen Art Award 5th Edition, curated by Giorgio Bonomi and Lara Hunting, Vibo Valentia (in the catalogue) Paolo Fava Award, curated by Daniele Carnoli and the Popular Bank of Ravenna, Il Coccio Gallery, Ravenna (first prize) Opera Award / Work in progress: between utopia and reality, curated by Daniele Casadio, Ravenna (in the catalogue) 2012 Watercolour Bienniale, Marche d'Acqua Award, curated by Giorgio Pellegrini and Anna Massinissa Magini, Fabriano (An) (in the catalogue) 2011 Lights of September, Cotignola (Ra) (first absolute prize of the Arts) Events 2014 New routes of culture, Artists at work, curated by VIRA2019 Ravenna2019 candidate city to be European Capital of Culture 2019 2012 International Bread Festival, Ravenna Artist residencies | workshop 2015 WORK.Lab "The Academy of immobility" by Luigi Presicce, MAMbo, Museum of Modern Art of Bologna
2014 Artist and Gallerist, Workshop by Giuseppe Lufrano, Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna and Otto Gallery, Bologna Humus Park - International Land Art Meeting and Exposition Biennale, curated by Gabriele Meneguzzi and Vincenzo Sponga, Pordenone
They have written about his works: Francesca Piersanti (art historian), Bruno Valerio Bandini (art historian, writer, art critic, curator and prof. of aesthetics, philosophy of art and art history at the Academy of Fine Arts Bologna and ISIA Urbino), Chiara Serri (curator, journalist e art critic, espoarte magazine), Beatrice Buscaroli (member of the High Council of Cultural Heritage and Landscape of Italian Republic, art critic, art historian, curator, writer and prof. of art history at the Academy of Fine Arts Bologna), Paola Babini (artist and curator and prof. at the Academy of Fine Arts Bologna and Ravenna), Patrizia Cauteruccio (curator), MariaAgata Amato (prof. of Graphic Tecnique history Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna), Tobia DonĂ (curator and architect, collaborator Venice Gallery), Giovanni Barberini (philosopher, art historia), Laura Villani (architect, curator), Rinaldo Novali (artist and prof. of painting and Visual Arts Department director at the Academy of Fine Arts Bologna), Roberto Pagnani (artist), Martina Bagnara (curator), Daniele Casadio (art historian), Federico Spadoni (journalist), Claudio Spadoni (art historian, art critic, curator and art director Bologna ART-FAIR), Pericle Stoppa (curator), Silvia Del Campo (curator and critic Art out centre Gallery Rome), Fabrizio Fantini (director, art maker).