"The Dreamers"
2002
olio su tela
105 x 131
Biografia Chiara Abbaticchio
Instruction
Diploma in Art at the State Arts High School Rome (Liceo Artistico Statale) in 2002.
In 2003 she enrolls in the Academy of Art in Rome, in Prof. Costantino Baldino's course on painting, and is currently in her fourth year.
Experiences
- In 2002 she receives a special award in the 'Stop, Graphic Vandalism' (Stop al vandalismo grafico)
held by the City of Rome, with the work 'Would Picasso have done it?' (Picasso l'avrebbe fatto?);
- In the same year she wins the first prize for designing the Symbol of the Cinecittā district;
- Participates in and is selected for the First Extemporary Painting: the urban scenery;
- She obtains the tenth position in the Sinaide Ghi International Competition of Watercolor Painting with the work 'The Rock' (lo scoglio);
- She holds exhibitions in Piazza Navona where the Brazilian Embassy owns one of her sketches;
- In 2001 she participates in the International Humor in Art Biennial on the theme 'Doubt' (il dubbio) and the 'In Vino Veritas' National Graphic and Humor Contest.
- 2002 she participates in the Extemporary Trasimeno and Surroundings Painting Contest organized by C.A.T. (Club Amanti del Trasimeno).
Exhibitions and festivals/reviews
- 2005 - from 28th. June -to 15th. July- Meeting with the Academy - Group show held in the Cultural Association Arte Fuori Centro in Rome
- 2005 - 17th September - 8th October - FEMINA - Group show in the Ashanti Gallery Rome.
- 2005 - 15th October - 22nd. October - Solo show in the Castellana Cultural Association, Frascati.
How is it done? How can I explain how I paint? Let me try...
First there is the idea and then the arm follows...the surface and the eye that embraces it.the colors, shadows, lines and contours (I like contours, they are reassuring) that call me, that hammer in my head.they want to come out: they are my view on the world. I'm not searching for heaviness or for cold techniques that fall into decorativeness.
I like to believe that works of art can be something that, for better or for worse, warm the spectator. That stir or provoke a reaction.
An overly technical work cannot move. Yes to virtuosity, virtuosity in a brushstroke and in color.in setting off lines. What counts is the right balance.
I look for linear precision in the explosion of color. My intent is to paint emotions. Life moves through emotions, which I try to capture and press onto the canvas. I attempt to do this using women's bodies. I paint women and their life journey. I look for their sensations; every color is a note.
Reds, greens, yellows, blues: the symphony is marvellous.
They are sad, angry, provoking, anguished, bored; they are lovers.blended in the color that establishes the character. All of this constitutes the expression.
My close ups are for them. I paint what I know.I'm still studying men. A woman's body is my body.
I want to paint the windows of the soul; Narcissus is not so shattered after all.or rather my Narcissuses.who move on the canvas in an expanding rhythm, settled in the background waiting. mingling with the shadow that is never black, or imposing themselves on the spectator in all their complexity.
They have many facets.to be seen. Finally words don't have much weight or sense since a painter is judged by her work...I am not a conceptual painter.
