ANTONELLA SERRATORE - Italy
Contacts: antonellaserratore@libero.it Website antonellaserratore.com
Cell 3491540503
Attracted by the Moon
Ode to Joy
oil on panel 50 x 40 cm
mixed media on canvas 50 x 70 cm
Reflections on the water
Reflected city
oil on canvas panel 70 x 50 cm
oil on canvas 80 x 60 cm
Vortex
Mystery
oil on canvas board 50 x 70 cm
mixed media on paper 48 x 33 cm
Her Biography
She was born in Lentini (SR). After graduating from the State Art Institute of Catania, she embarked on a teaching career. The artist – whom critics continue to appreciate for her pictorial language imbued with an original and entirely personal search for expressive freedom – has, over the last 10 years, carried out her own independent artistic journey, moving with ease from a traditional figurative approach of realism to a more modern figurative style, from which emerged a research that also shows Serratore's interest in abstractionism and in completely different expressive styles. The artist has participated, receiving unanimous acclaim from both the public and critics, in important regional and national contemporary art exhibitions. Among others, the well-known art critics Fortunato Orazio Signorello and Massimo Catalano have written about her, greatly admiring, among other things, the artist's qualities of accuracy and method. She appears in several art yearbooks and dictionaries. She has been mentioned and cited by regional and national newspapers and magazines. She is a member of the Accademia Federiciana (Catania) and is listed in the visual arts archive of the same institution. Her works are found in public and private collections.
She lives in San Gregorio (CT).
The Curriculum
She is present in several art yearbooks: Tuscany contemporary art, 1st volume - "From Lucio Fontana to the Jubilee of Pope Francis" of 2016. Modern art yearbook "Contemporary Artists 2016" (Acca editions Rome). "International Artists in Contemporary Art" of 2017. Monograph: Stylistic Dynamism (Kritios editions). Artists in Florence 2019 (La Nuova Toscana). Article in the magazine "La Toscana Nuova" (August 2019). "Elite" yearbook of 2020. In 2021 she is included in the Sartori Modern and Contemporary Art catalog "Italian Artists 2021". In Orizzonte Italia Contemporary Art Collection "Artists of Italy". Article and Critique in the magazine "La Toscana Nuova" of May/2021
2020
Exhibition "Robotic Men" (Independent Artists) (Fondazione Mellone).
"The Colors of Autumn" at Gamec Gallery in Pisa.
2019 Art Gallery Satura of Genoa, Art Exhibition "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow", on the 25th anniversary (2-20 / 03 / 19).
Società delle Arti, Circolo degli Artisti, Casa Dante Florence, Exhibition "Art that gives meaning to life" (13-25 / 04 / 19).
Satura Arte, Palazzo Stella, 3rd Genoa Biennale, (8-22 /06 /19)
Encyclopedia of Italian Art, Exhibition of Encyclopedia Artists. At the Mumi Museum Milan, curated by Alberto Moioli (6-21 / 07)
Exhibition "Stylistic Connotations" (Accademia Federiciana) at the Emilio Greco Museum in Catania (13-22 / 04/ /19).
2018
Exhibition "Arte today" (Accademia Federiciana) Emilio Greco Museum in Catania (10-18 / 11 / 18).
Women Art Bra "Biennale of Female Creativity" Bra (CN) (2-18 / 03 / 18).
Solo exhibition "Chromatic Contrasts" at the Emilio Greco Museum in Catania (7-15 / 04 / 18).
Solo exhibition "Expressive Contexts" at the Emilio Greco Museum in Catania (20-28 / 10 / 18).
Exhibition "Genova Art Expo", Satura art Gallery Genoa (21/04/18 - 02/05/18). Collective Art Exhibition "Stylistic Contentisms" at the Emilio Greco Museum in Catania (9-17 / 06 / 18)
International Competition "Art Horizons" at the Bela Rosin Mausoleum in Turin (16-29 / 06 / 18).
2017
Solo exhibition "Technical Virtuosity" at the Emilio Greco Museum in Catania (1-8 / 04 / 17)
Monograph "Stylistic Eclecticism" Kritios Editions.
Catalog "L’Elite – Art Selection" 2017.
Catalog "From Lucio Fontana to the Jubilee of Pope Francis" Ed. Il Quadrato 2016
The Critique
<<...The lyrical tonal narration becomes an element of communicability of thought and feeling. An appropriation of such technical wisdom is emblematic of spontaneous artistic mastery. >>
Sandro Serradifalco
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<< ... The artist has within herself this added value that explodes in her works, through which we come into contact with a new world, a dreamlike expression constantly dominated by lightness and expressive finesse. The works of Antonella Serratore are like a fire that passes through you and involves you, managing to give well-being and serenity; immersing oneself in her works is like taking a short vacation from ourselves. The artist manages to make the observer an accomplice in a journey in which she is the wise guide who accompanies us through the colors of landscapes that can deceive us, as in the journey with Italo Calvino in the city of Tamara, where the eyes do not see things but figures that can seem like other things...>>
Alberto Moioli
( Encyclopedia of Italian Art, 7th volume 2018 )
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<< Antonella Serratore combines a synthetically expressed figurality and emblematic formal references, where the sign-based texture and the intense chromatic interpretation translate the existential contents proposed into an allusive language. The image becomes an expression of great communicative and interpretative power, in a narrative path capable of blending creativity with critical reflections on human life, on its expectations and the implications of an interiority lyrically proposed. >>
Roberto Perdicaro
The Elite 2020
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In this painting, there is a profound grasp of the subject to be represented, which constitutes not the entirety but the specific world of the particular, its intimate substance, which then gives the achieved sense of completeness. A way of painting that investigates, delves into the hidden and mysterious parts that make the whole alive and existential, a vibrant atmosphere close to human impulse, crossed by shivers and tensions animated by secret vitality. There is often a contrast found in this artist's painting, a drive that breaks verisimilitude, a sort of return to the origin to emerge in the full bearing of emotion, an emotion obtained through the contrast of sharp and soft marks and with fusions of colors in which white insinuates itself like a spear piercing the image, with the use of blue that darkens until it becomes night, a dazzling and throbbing blue until it becomes a burst of light aiming towards the sky and conquering it in constructions skillfully articulated in subdivisions of aspects of nature or in constructions of eras and places. All this brings us back to a symphonic spatialism and to reflections on nature, the world, history, and again on the present and becoming. With the weapon of art, Antonella Serratore aims to lead us to reflect on many aspects of life.
Taken from Lucio Fontana at the Jubilee of Pope Francis 2016 edited by Giorgio Falossi “il Quadrato”.
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<<… Antonella Serratore expresses herself in painting with the attentive descriptive force of someone capable of shaping matter, bringing to light its pulsating core of life. The architectural or landscape views appear set in atmospheres of metaphysical value, often accentuated by the presence of the human figure. >>…
Monica Candrilli .
ANTONELLA SERRATORE
PAINTERLY PATHS BETWEEN TRUTH AND UTOPIA. (By J. CHIOSTRI).If it were music, it could be a piece by Wagner or perhaps jazz in its be pop form; if it were literature, a canto from the Purgatory; if it were a philosopher, Schopenhauer with his double truth about dreams. In painting, however, it simply cannot be assimilated—not to De Chirico or to Turner or Bocklin as someone might venture: Antonella Serratore, a Sicilian painter, creates highly evocative images—which provoke a whirlwind of suggestions in the observer—born solely and exclusively from her sensitivity and her interpretation of reality.
Born in Lentini, in the province of Syracuse, trained at the State Institute of Art in Catania, a teacher by profession, Serratore depicts the objective world with a rich, personal, and unusual language capable of coherently blending in a single syntax the harshness of a work like ‘Everything Will End’ with the melody that emanates from ‘Images in Green’ or its counterpart ‘Images in Blue’.
Everywhere in these canvases, one is guided through the narrative by a symbolism, sometimes evident, sometimes subliminal, but always present, which creates—whether in figurative or abstract form—results of classical composure that recall ancient patterns.
The production of this artist is rich, not boundless but copious; the influences that can be traced in it are many, none more evident than others because there is a cultured elaboration, and an instinctual appropriation that personalizes them and uses them to give shape to an idea, a vision filtered by a rational criterion, though left with a loose rein. In this there is indeed a gnoseological approach, but even more so an intellectual contribution, with which the artist fulfills the 'debt' towards those who come into contact with her work.
Serratore's aesthetics are never separated from an ethical sensitivity that is proposed not in the form of clamour, but rather as objection. From a chromatic point of view, we find a control that denotes absolute technical mastery; the aim is to animate the luminous qualities of the colors, endowing them with the same gleams that the human eye perceives and, in a certain sense, produces.
Is Serratore's world a possible world? A real one? It's hard to answer; one must always keep in mind that we are talking about art and therefore creative and reproductive freedom comes into play.
The artist's intimate relationship with his works is influenced by a dialectic that, in contrast—that contrast which is both damnation and fulfillment—expresses the solutions of a work of introspection. From this emerges a language that is free but also controlled, affectionate but also uncompromising, protective and also bold.
There are no half measures or compromises in these paintings. If inhabited places appear, they are either the (probably New York) skyscrapers, proud and alienating, or the fishermen's houses of Aci Trezza in a country village, or houses on a hill, similar and gathered together, perhaps to become a treasure chest for the memories they hold, maybe to tell us that there is a great need for equality in the world; the human does not appear, it is inside, behind the walls.
It is complex, and therefore also stimulating, to talk about the art of Antonella Serratore; the limited space does not allow us to go further. The artist has a beautiful website - - where, in addition to viewing the works, organized by year of production, it is possible to read critical texts, the biography, and her story rich in exhibitions held in many places, and in recognitions awarded to her.