Camellias
Hydrangeas on the window
Watercolor – Arches Paper – 26 x 36 cm 2021
Watercolor – Fabriano Paper – 30 x 40 2021
Hydrangeas
Thought
Watercolor – Fabriano Paper – 23 x 30.5 cm 2021
Watercolor – Canson Paper – 29 x 32 cm 2017
Forest
Autumn Walk
Mixed technique with wood, rice paper, natural material and watercolor Fabriano Paper – 30 x 40 cm 20
Mixed Technique Watercolor, Ink, Collage of natural materials Fabriano Paper – 50 x 65 cm 2019
The Curriculum
Awards:
Extra Special Award Contest Prize dedicated to students and alumni - EMMAPC Maestro Fego Camargo at the III Art Exhibition - Taubaté - SP Gold Medal at the 5th “Style” Collective of Plastic Arts - Art Office and Studium E. Nascimento - Santo André - SP - Br.
Exhibitions:
FRI, 18 SEP 2020 Πῦρ. And the fire came. After the lockdown Le Ali Di Pandora - Le Ali Di Pandora - Lecce - Italy
32nd Art Salon 2019-10 - 19/12/2019 - Promoted by the Commercial Association of São Paulo - Pinheiros District - Legislative Assembly of the State of São Paulo - São Paulo - Brazil
Art Exhibition "Aspects of Paulista Folklore" - The purpose of the exhibition is to promote artistic production related to Paulista Folklore in its various forms: legends, myths, folk tales, proverbs, games, dances, music, crafts, etc. Exhibition from August 8 to 30, 2019.
31st Art Salon 2018-06-11 / 09/2018 - Promoted by the Commercial Association of São Paulo - Pinheiros District - Legislative Assembly of the State of São Paulo - São Paulo - BR2
30th Art Salon 2017 - 10/31 - 11/11 / 2017 - Promoted by the Commercial Association of São Paulo - Pinheiros District - Legislative Assembly of the State of São Paulo - São Paulo - BR
XXXI Exhibition of Plastic Arts of Arceburgo - MG - from 10 to 24/06/2017 Promoted by the Historical and Cultural Institute of Arceburgo “Solar Azurem”
29th Art Salon 2016 - 25/10 - 05/11/2016 - Promoted by the Commercial Association of São Paulo - Pinheiros District ACSP-PI - São Paulo - SP - Br
28th Salão de Artes 2015 - 01 - 10/12/2015 - Promoted by the Commercial Association of São Paulo - Pinheiros District ACSP-PI - São Paulo - SP - Br
Solo Exhibition 03 - 09/12/2011 - II District S. Rosa - Salesians - Stadium - curated by the Artistic and Cultural Association “Le Ali di Pandora” - Lecce - Le - It.
Annual Solo Exhibition 1993/2007 - Art Gallery of the “Ubatuba Palace Hotel” - Ubatuba - SP. Br
March 1993 - IV Salon of Plastic Arts for Women - DECE - Taubaté - SP - Br 14 -
22/03/1992 - III Salon of Plastic Arts for Women - DECE - Taubaté – SP - Br November 1991 - IV Salon of Plastic Arts for Students and Alumni - DECE - Taubaté - SP - Br
20/09 - 03/10/1991 - 22nd “Salão da Primavera - Associazione Paulista di Belle Arti - Tennis Clube Paulista - São Paulo - SP 21 -
29/09/1991 - III “Spring Salon” - Taubaté - SP - Br August 1991 - “Official Fine Arts Salon of Matão” - Matão - SP - Br 13 -
23/04/1991 - V Collective “Styles” of Plastic Arts - Art Office and Studium E. Nascimento, in Santo André - SP - Br
03/03/1991 - Participation in "Arte na Praça", Group exhibition with Plastic Artists of Taubaté - Praça 8 de Maio - Taubaté - SP - Br 01 -
03/08/1991 - II “Plastic Arts Salon for Women” - DECE - Taubaté – SP - Br
28/12/1990 - 7/1/1991 - Group exhibition at the Art Gallery “Ubatuba Palace Hotel - Ubatuba - SP - Br 09 -
20/12/1990 - XII SAPT "Official Art Salon of Taubaté" - DECE - Taubaté - SP - Br
30/11 - 15/12/1990 - IV Salon of Plastic Arts of Avaré” - Avaré –SP - Br 3 13 -
21/11/1990 - III “Salone delle Arti Plastiche Fego Camargo” - Civic Museum Ed. Paulo C. Florençano - Taubaté - SP - Br 10 -
17/11/1990 - “Happening Art II” - Atelier Vera Lourenço - SENAC - Taubaté - SP - Br 06 -
23/11/1990 - 20th “Salão da Paisagem Paulista” - Headquarters of the Paulista Association of Fine Arts - São Paulo - SP - Br 04 -
10/17/1990 - 21st Spring Exhibition Association of Fine Arts of São Paulo - Casa de Portugal Gallery - São Paulo - SP - Br 21 -
28/09/1990 - II “Salão da Primavera” - DECE. Taubaté - SP - Br.
28/08 - 05/09/1990 - 48th “Salão Livre” - Associação Paulista de Belas Artes - Galleria Casa de Portugal - São Paulo - SP - Br 03 -
19/08/1990 - XII SOBAM - “Salão Oficial de Belas Artes de Matão” - Matão– SP - Br
02-07 / 07/1990 - Art exhibition - Clube Literário Pindamonhangaba - Pindamonhangaba - SP - Br 01 -
30/06/1990 - VIII “Salone delle Arti Plastiche di Araraquara” - Casa della Cultura “Luiz Antonio Martinez Correa” - Araraquara - SP - Br
18/05 - 04/06/1990 - Solo Exhibition - Banco do Brasil - Taubaté - SP - Br. 18 -
28/04/1990 - 38th “Monteiro Lobato” Week - DECE - Taubaté - SP - Br 07 -
03/31/1990 - The "Plastic Arts for Women" Exhibition - Taubaté Shopping Center - Taubaté - SP - Br 16 -
28/02/1990 - Group Exhibition at the Art Gallery “Ubatuba Palace Hotel - Ubatuba - SP - Br 04 -
12/15/1989 - XI SAPT - “Salon of Plastic Arts of Taubaté” - Civic Museum Ed. Paulo C. Florençano - Taubaté - SP - Br 25 -
31/11/1989 - “Happening Art” - Atelier Vera Lourenço - Civic Museum Ed. Paulo C. Florençano - Taubaté - SP - Br 16 -
22/11/1989 - II Sala delle Arti “Fego Camargo” - DECE - Taubaté - SP - Br 06 -
11/14/1989 - IV “Ecological Salon” - Paulista Association of Fine Arts - “Casa de Portugal” Art Gallery - São Paulo - SP - Br
22-27 / 09/1989 - I Salão da Primavera - Teatro São João - Taubaté - SP - Br. 18 -
25/04/1989 - 37th “Monteiro Lobato” Week - DECE, SENAC and Paulo C. Florençano Civic Museum - Taubaté - SP - Br4 19 -
24/11/1988 - Atelier Vera Carvalho Lourenço - SENAC - Taubaté - SP – Br
Courses: 2015 - Ongoing - Advanced courses in drawing, painting, and watercolor at the Atelier of Prof. Isa Hohagen - São Paulo - Br and online improvement.
2012 - Watercolor lessons with watercolorist Fabio Cembranelli - São Paulo - Br.
2006 - Papier-mâché Technique and Stone Decoration - Socio-Cultural Artistic Association Raggio Verde - Lecce - Le - It
1988-1993 - Oil on canvas / canvas - Atelier Vera Carvalho Lourenço - Taubaté - SP - Br
1989-1992 - Pastel Drawing - EMMAPC Maestro Fego Camargo - Taubaté - SP - Br - Prof. Bernadete Lima
1989-1990 - Clay modeling - EMMAPC Maestro Fego Camargo - Taubaté - SP - Br -
1990 - 1991 - “Art History” - Prof. Jenny Marcondes Ferreira - Taubaté - SP - Br
1990 - Course “See and Hear - Critical Panorama of the History of Art and Music” - Prof. Jenny Marcondes Ferreira - Taubaté - SP - Br
1989 - Course “Arte de Ver” and “Encontro com Arte” - Prof. Antonio Santoro Jr. - Taubaté - SP - Br.
1978-1980 - Painting on fabric - Prof. Claudia - Taubaté - SP - Br.
1976-1978 - Decoration - Panamerican School of Art - São Paulo - SP -
1972-1975 - Porcelain painting - Prof. Vera Bartolo - Taubaté - SP
Since 2010 Founding Member of the Association Le Ali di Pandora - Artistic, Cultural and Social Association. www.lealidipandora.com
Since 2011 - Responsible for organizing press releases via web.
Since 2021 - Artist catalogued by our art gallery. https://ngarteprodutoracultural.com.br/
Since 2021 – Catalogued Artist of Mega Art Www.megaart.it 5 Workshop:
2017 - Watercolor Workshop - Prof. Carlo Monopoli - Winsor & Newton and Artemia – Lecce – Le - It
02/12/2017 - Acrylic Workshop - Prof. Carlo Monopoli - Liquitex and Artemia – Lecce – Le - It
09/06/2018 - Oleo Workshop - Prof. Carlo Monopoli - LeBranc and Artemia – Lecce – Le - It
19/10/2019 - Portrait Workshop alla Prima - Prof. Carlo Monopoli - Winsor & Newton and Artemia – Lecce – Le - It
Her Biography
Her first steps in painting took place in 1972, painting on porcelain with Prof. Vera Bartolo in Taubaté, State of São Paulo. Later she painted on plaster, stained glass, fabric, in 1988 when she began attending the school of the artist Vera Lourenço, also in Taubaté, then she made great strides, attended the Escola de Artes Fego Camargo, to develop in the art of pastel and clay modeling.
Despite dedicating herself to her home and children, she never stopped painting, being present at some Art Exhibitions and Collective Exhibitions.
She took her first steps in watercolor, her great passion, in 1993, again at the school of the artist Vera Lourenço, in 2012 she attended some courses with the renowned watercolorist Fábio Cembranelli, and in 2015 she began attending the school of the artist Isa Hohagen and continues to follow her advanced courses.
She now lives in Italy, and is one of the Founding Members of the Cultural Association Le Ali di Pandora in Lecce.
The Critique
Memories are buds that blossom on me, when I water the past with my breath. Michelangelo Cammarata Today, the task of Art is no longer to imitate nature with the greatest possible perfection, but to transcend it. The work of art becomes a means to put man, in introspective and intimate vision, in contact with the infinite, with the absolute, delighting the senses, exalting the spirit. In the works of Solange Esposito, a Brazilian artist, we savor the hymn to life, the exaltation of Gea in a diary of images lived in the form of a story. Flowers, landscapes, twilight, faces, are the result of enchantment, they creak on a forced grammar and the vital sap breaks the silence, so the open petals feed on the moment. Solange's is the walk, the journey towards her roots and the flowers like ghosts dissolve in the air of memory leaving the scent of heather and meanwhile she watches the broom blossom in search of the smell of life. End and beginning. Solange is a storyteller who draws on her emotions, bringing the observer into a fantastic world described with the conscious freedom of the brush and the light touch of the glaze that makes the color vibrate until it transcends the strictly personal dimension to reach a universal experience. The colors come to life, tell stories, scents and emotions; the two-dimensionality of the surface, the perspective construction, the linear definition, the chromatic field, the need to overcome the vague character of the vision and to reduce everything to a synthesis of the aspects of the representation express a vision of reality deeply influenced by symbolist and poetic conceptions. I conclude by quoting what Keith Haring wrote about Tinguely: “T.'s works are totally enchanting and accessible on many levels. Full of metaphors about everything, from Life to Death, to industrialization and its effects on the human condition (…). There is a kind of naturalistic, fantastic and mysterious feeling, in not knowing (or not caring to know) where they come from, but believing they are real. (…) These works force you to see them, feel them and become part of them.”
Ambra Biscuso
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Rosanna Gesualdo writes about her: “According to what the sociologist Eric J. Leed claims, the theme of the journey is indissolubly linked to the human experience, in the attempt to acquire the unknown through the known, “what escapes and is not recognized” Frederik Bhart would say. The journey, therefore, understood as a paradigm of authentic and direct experience. Traveling, moving, migrating as a need of the soul is a common experience to human civilizations of all ages, a longing that is expressed from time to time with different meanings and ways. The universally recognized theme of the journey covers a broad and dense metaphorical field of meanings, especially as regards life understood as a journey. Wandering, traveling, even fearing the inescapable sense of change, I would dare to say of transhumance linked to the traveler, generates and satisfies a need for change in his psyche, a change in the perception of the self and of the objects that surround him before, after and during the journey, towards a landing in the radical transformation of the perception of self in the relationship between journey and experience. This seemed to me the necessary premise to delve into the knowledge of Solesp for whom the starting point coincides with that of the return, a journey-necessity in which identity is enriched in the equation knowledge/wonder, in a state of perpetual wandering in which only during the journey does the wanderer feel at home. As the traveler finds no peace, so does the soul of Solesp, who, even though she can enjoy the return to the starting place and the benefits obtained, continues to feel the urgent call to the adventure of art that crosses into the magic of the chromatic field and takes place in the insidious enchantment of the portrait of those she meets and the landscape she visits. The artist's landscapes in this case are photographs of the soul, veiled by the memory of the places visited, reaching towards a tension of loving solitude. Not by chance, Solesp, Brazilian by origin, Italian by choice, is caught between two terms as obscure as they are explanatory of her artistic work, always moved by the impulse of a soul that finds no rest; two concepts, the Brazilian “saudade” and the “salentitudine” - a term well known in the farthest tip of Italy. Two concepts that bind these two lands in a single inexplicable emotion, the profound sense of solitude and estrangement that strikes those who inhabit these lands of welcome and color when leaving, as if the very hand of an archaic solitude called back to the place of one's origins from which separation is always lacerating. Solesp is able, through the mastery of technique acquired over the years and thanks to the imaginative world of the extraordinary capacity of art to generate visions, to temper this laceration by diluting it through her own gaze and tempering it in the liquidity of the colors that refer us not to a photographic image, but to a “snapshot” of the soul understood as a treasure chest of memories accumulated during her travels that the artist generously gives us.
Rosanna Gesualdo