GIULIA QUARESIMA | THE WORK
STATEMENT
Giulia is an Italian artist who recently moved to Cambridge, UK.
Her artistic activity focuses on figurative subjects, particularly portraits and nudes.
The women's universe is the main theme of her painting season: the relentless passage of time, the laceration of abandonment, the fascinating moment of conception are the subjects on which she reflects. She uses painting to analyse our fears and hopes, and her works do not hide behind intellectual games. The artist believes that her works can show her love for tradition and her respect for the craft, because, in her opinion, modernity should be find through the old rule of art. She is very faithful to the "poetic of realism" with which she carries on her own idea of reality. The recent objective is to reinterpret in her paintings the ancestral myths of Greek culture.
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EDUCATION
2012: MA in History of Contemporary Art (cum laude), University of Pisa, Italy
2009: BA in Cultural Heritage Studies (cum laude), University of Pisa, Italy
2006: BA in Painting (cum laude), Academy of Fine Arts, Carrara, Italy
EXHIBITIONS
Main Group Exhibitions
2010: Un quadro per rinascere, contemporary art exhibition, Villa Paolina Bonaparte Museum, Viareggio (LU), Italy
Carrara Giorni d’Arte, 1st Modern and Contemporary Art Fair, Marina di Carrara (MS), Italy
2009: Donne: arte e cultura, ex Scuderie Borbone, Camaiore (LU), Italy
Mille artisti a Palazzo, Palazzo Arese Borromeo, Antica Chiesa di S. Stefano, auditorium Davide e Paolo Disarò, Cesano Maderno (MI), Italy
2008: Donna e Arte, 6th painting and sculpture group exhibition, Teatro dell'Olivo, Camaiore (LU), Italy
La Memoria, La Speranza, painting and sculpture exhibition to commemorate the martyrs of
S. Anna, Chiesa di S. Anna di Stazzema (LU), Italy
2007: Liberamente Libro, Prof. Omar Galliani’s students group exhibition, Reggio Emilia and Monreale (PA), Italy
V Biennale Internazionale di Pittura Premio Felice Casorati, winners group exhibition at the Italian Culture Institute gallery, Cracow, Poland
2006: I colori del sorriso, La Marguttiana, Pietrasanta (LU), Italy
Presenze artistiche in Versilia, Arte Spazio Gallery, Marina di Pietrasanta (LU), Italy
2005: IN FIERI 2005, biannual student exhibition, Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara (MS), Italy
Immagina. Arte in Fiera, Accademie a confronto, 7th selling exhibition, Reggio Emilia, Italy
2004: ArtInFormazione, 8 Accademie di Belle Arti fra formazione e ricerca, lungo l'itinerario dei castelli della Lunigiana, Castello di Malgrate, Villafranca (MS), Italy
Solo Exhibitions
2011: Mitologie reali, Petrartedizioni Gallery, Pietrasanta (LU), Italy
2010: Tre passi indietro, Villa Gori, Massarosa (LU), Italy
2007: Vivendo e quasi vivendo, Petrartedizioni Gallery, Pietrasanta (LU), Italy
2006: Gli sguardi della vita, Blue Port club’s showroom, Marina di Carrara (MS), Italy
Panta rei, Arte Spazio Gallery, Marina di Pietrasanta (LU), Italy
AWARDS
2009: 1st prize, Mostra di Piccolo Formato, Città di Massarosa, X edizione, Massarosa (LU), Italy
2007: 1st prize Premio Internazionale di Poesia, Pittura, Scultura e Grafica Versilia 2007, painting section, figure category, Torre del Lago (LU), Italy
2006: 3rd prize, V Biennale Internazionale di Pittura Premio Felice Casorati, Pavarolo (TO), Italy
3rd prize, I colori del sorriso, La Marguttiana, Pietrasanta (LU), Italy
1st prize, Artisti mai Visti, VI edizione, Pisa, Italy
PUBLICATIONS
2010, Giulia Quaresima, catalogue, Petrartedizioni, Pietrasanta, Italy