BARBARA BERARDICURTI - Italy
Contact: berardicurti@gmail.com
Studio- Via della Reginella 11 00187 Rome Cell. 328 4153400
Piraata - the hunter
Jumana silver pearl
oil on canvas cm 70 x 70
oil on canvas cm 70 x 70
Transition
Metamorphosis of light
oil on canvas cm 130 x 100
acrylic and oil collage cm 50 x 70
Sapam Vietnam Market
Munira the one who spreads light
oil on canvas 70 x 100 cm
oil on canvas 40 x 70 cm
About her Art
She was born in Abruzzo, and at the age of 5 moved to Rome where she lives and works. She painted her first oil painting at just 14 years old, and thus began her love for art. After her studies, she attended the painting studio of master Giovanni Crisostomo for several years. Her first exhibitions were in Tuscany and Denmark.
Over the years, she has participated in many impromptu, group, and solo exhibitions, especially in Rome, but also in various parts of Italy and Europe.
In 1987 she attended the European Institute of Design where she obtained her diploma as an Illustrator and perfected many painting techniques: oil, watercolor, gouache tempera, acrylic tempera, airbrush, and pencils.
Since 1992 she has been an ordinary member of the Association 100 Painters of Via Margutta.
In 1994, together with other contemporary artists, she founded the association “Alternativa ’94 work in progress”, with which she organized numerous exhibitions in Via Margutta and in various regions of Italy.
In 2010, for 4 years, she managed a gallery in the historic center of Rome, in Via Giulia 194/a, together with 4 artists, including Kristina Milakovic and Claudio Meli. Together with them, she founded the artistic cultural association “Stradarte” with which she still organizes impromptu exhibitions in the historic center of Rome.
In recent years she has participated in numerous fairs in Italy (Padua, Genoa, Forlì, etc.) and has exhibited her paintings at the Selenograd gallery in Moscow. Her latest exhibition in 2016 was a three-person show at the Enogastronomic Museum of Montecompatri.
Over the years she has won awards organized in the municipality of Ponzano di Roma: 3rd Prize– 1st International Exhibition in the city of Viterbo, 4th prize, award organized in the city of Morlupo, 9th place.
In 2016 she won the following awards:
-VERNICE ART FAIR ART WOMAN award with the work “TRANSIZIONE”, an award created and added by the Director of the fair, within the EUROEXPOART award organized by the Neo Art Gallery.
-Civitella Val di Chiana Award: she won the critics' prize with the work “Vecchio Afghano” - - 1st Art Collective “Artists Meet the Colors of Sicily in the City of Archimedes” held in Syracuse, she won the critics' prize with the work “Piraata il cacciatore”.
- November 2016 Selected among the finalists of the Adrenalina 2016 JESUS 3.0 award with the work
“QUO VADIS”
In 2017 she won the following awards:
March 2017 VERNICE ART FAIR ExpoART award- SILVER CATEGORY
May 2017 City of Breno Art Award. Critics' mention.
June 2017 Selected for the ADRENALINA project with an exhibition in the NVMEN concept space in the first event-exhibition DONNEdiROMA
Exhibitions 2017
January- Small format exhibition at Evasioni art studio gallery- ROME
January 2017 5th Base Gallery-LONDON
February 2017 ARTEFIERA. GENOA
March 2017 VERNICE ARTFAIR- FORLI’
June 2017- Montecompatri- ROME
Her works are included in private and public collections both in Italy and abroad.
Critique
It has been said about her:
“an artist who never tires of searching for herself, she tries to succeed by questioning herself in the journeys she tells us about in her works……………her life is a continuous, irresistible departure…………………
And the thought turns to Gauguin: “in life some have a purpose”
Excerpt from the critique by journalist Ferdinando Bassoli
---------from their seductive silence, Berardicurti's works indicate to us that the only way to penetrate the primitive (and primordial) world explored each time is to remain on its margins; or to withdraw from it to leave in place precisely what, in order to be revealed, must necessarily be shattered……………………
Excerpt from the critique by poet Luigi Manzi
…………That is why the enigmatic gazes and harmonious figures turn directly to the viewer, provoking a sense of dismay, among almost unreal atmospheres, in which the figurative narrative takes on a symbolic meaning that enters the existential dimension of the author, between dream and reality in an expression of memory and intellect. This is the merit in the paintings of the artist Barbara Berardicurti: the image of woman is not only aesthetic beauty, where the visual effect becomes, in its luminosity, enchantment in the charm of harmony, but a language of the spirit, thus opening a passage to the author's dreamy imagination in the clarity of her feelings.
Excerpt from the critique by Carla d'Aquino Mineo