Ersilia Sarrecchia
Ersilia Sarrecchia is from the province of Latina, south of Rome and lives in Doha, Qatar, from the beginning of this year. She has exhibited extensively in various towns in her province and in Rome and Milan.
Earlier she has lived and worked for brief periods in places as varied as Madrid, Barcelona, Berlin, Moscow, Las Vegas and London and exhibited her works in some of these cities.
Her earlier works were of an enchanting array of animals in luxuriant colors, perceived with affection and sensuality rather than from a naturalistic or critically descriptive stand point. Andrea Bellini, curator and Director of Artissima art fair in Turin, paraphrases Italo Calvino in his American Lectures and says that Sarrecchia’s pictorial practice accomplishes a shedding of weight and attempt to free painting and Nature ‘from the world’s opacity’ from an onerous and unseemly heaviness.
The art historian and critic Vincenzo Scozzarella says “Ersilia Sarrecchia can appear, at first, influenced by American (and partly Italian) Pop Art experiences. The language, the intense use of color and the repetitiveness of the chosen subjects, could lead the viewer to interpret her narrative in ‘popular’ terms….every single creation has its very own explicit personality, a very definite character, I dare say a ‘story’, that the artist continuously reviews and presents to us through this repetition… In this sense I believe Ersilia’s narration evokes the experience of Giorgio Morandi …he was capable of seeing beyond pure appearance. And it is precisely ‘beyond appearance’ that Ersilia moves and leads us with her work, a work that can be described as a slow interior journey to operate an intimate and deep search within her.”
Since living in Doha, Ersilia has made several works inspired by Arab culture. She says “the continuous presences of visual images so different from my culture have stimulated my passion for photography, creating a need to frame and picture the reality through my eyes and then reinterpret them through my paintings.”
In her work titled “Doha” the dark base that characterizes the whirling movement of her first works, progressively softens as she becomes familiar with the brilliant, but austere Arab culture.
In the series of paintings titled “East” images, photographs, letters, incisions or anagrams blend with pictorial signs, with universal symbols- the written language that belongs to all cultures.
Ersilia has traveled in the world from sunny Mediterranean image making, a sort of pictorial felicity and fullness, to her current mysterious works, not easy to be deciphered or explained and approaching the language of visual poetry.
| 2009 | Teaching Artistic Education at the secondary school “Scuola Media A.Volta di Latina”, Latina, ITALY |
| 2007-08 | Organized painting classes for children and adults, Latina, ITALY Frosinone”, ITALY |
| 2003-06 | Teaching image education at primary school, ITALY |
| 2003 | Workshop of work and ceramica at the school “Demodè”, Velletri, Roma, ITALY |
| 2003 | Organized painting classes at the cultural association “Domus”, Latina, ITALY |
| 2002 | Assistant to the photographer Marcello Scopelliti, Latina, ITALY |
| 2000 | School-leaving university “Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma”, Roma, ITALY |
| 1998 | School project “the mark that live” primary school and “Liceo Artistico”, Latina, ITALY |
| 1993 | School-leaving school of Art “Liceo Artistico”, Latina, ITALY |
| Solo Exhibition | |
| 2009 | “INTERNI CONTEMPORANEI”, Latina, Italy |
| 2009 | “CAPOVOLTO”, Mad Friuli, Latina, Italy |
| 2008 | “MAD Joyce Arte Contemporanea”, Latina, Italy |
| 2008 | “OMAGGIO AL QUARTIERE”, Latina, Italy |
| 2008 | “MOVIMENTI..”, Pitton showroom, Latina, Italy |
| 2007 | “MAGICMARKETPLACE”, Las Vegas, USA |
| 2006 | “Oasi della Costa”, Sabaudia, Italy |
| 2006 | “Laranarossa”, GALLERY, Latina, Italy |
| 2005 | “MAD Rassegna d’Arte Contemporanea”, Latina, Italy |
| 2005 | “SERMONETA SOGNATA”, Latina, Italy |
| 2005 | “The Stables of the Kremlin, Moscow, RUSSIA |
| 2004 | Gallery La Casa del Critico, Velletri, Italy |
| 2004 | “TO BE BEINGS” Gallery ArtVeritti, Berlin, GERMANY |
| 2003 | “ERSILIA GUARDA IL TEMPO”, Gallery “Fiori di Zucca”, Latina, Italy |
| 2002 | “ESSERESSERI”, Agora Village, Latina, Italy |
| 2001 | “ESSERESSERI” Gallery Lidia Palumbo Scalzi, Latina, Italy |
| 2001 | “LIBERATORI”, Gallery UpArt, Madrid, SPAIN |
| 1996 | “PERSONALE”, Gallery Pennacchi, Latina, Italy |
| 1994 | “PERSONALE”, Town hall Bassiano, Italy |
| Collective Exhibition | |
| 2008 | “PHOTO VIRUS”, Grosseto, Italy |
| 2006 | “OLTRE FRONTIERA”, Matera, Italy |
| 2004 | 2nd place “PREMIO LATINAMARE”, Latina, Italy |
| 2004 | Photograph exhibition “ASPASIA”, Latina, Italy |
| 2004 | 1st place “MARIO RAZZANO”, Benevento, Italy |
| 2003 | “CONTEMPORANEA”, Casacalenda, Italy |
| 2003 | “PROGETTO CAMERUN” Teatro D’Annunzio, Latina, Italy |
| 2003 | “CONTEMPORANEA PALAZZO M”, Latina, Italy |
| 2002 | Gallery Arè, Rome, Italy |
| 2002 | “FOGLIANO ARTE”, Latina, Italy |
| 2001 | Gallery Lidia Palumbo Scalzi, Latina, Italy Sede |
| 1997 | Regione Lazio, Rome, Italy |
| 1995 | Accademia del Profumo, Milan, Italy |
| 1995 | “I FORI IMPERIALI”, Rome, Italy |
| 1994 | Accademy of Arts, Odessa, RUSSIA |
| Art installations | |
| 2004 | “FOGLIANO ARTE”, Latina, Italy |
| 2001 | “EMPTITA’-PERSONE VUOTE”, Latina, Italy |
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