Camilla Marinoni

Statement

At the heart of my work, there is an intimate and personal tale about the social and spiritual aspects of daily life and which, inevitably, turn into experience. The body, wounded, looked after and eviscerated, immersed between the finitude and the expected, is the starting point and topic that emerges in my studies. It tries to be a stimulus, a reflection on the meaning of our existence. I studied sculpture, but the creative process also manifests itself through different artistic expressions: from installations to clothing, from painting to video clips, from sculpture to performance arts. Depending on the project, I choose the material best suited for its development, though I have a special liking for thread (doilies and fabrics) and for the earth (ceramic), two archetypal elements that express a female feeling of patience and dedication. Softness and hardness, delicateness and strength are elements that alternate one with the other, grazing each other and forming a contrast that expresses the essence of each human being. The materials, stretching across the surfaces and creating the artworks, move the thought from one end to the other, making someone think about the bond between the world and the people.

GlogauAIR Project

The project I would like to work on during the residency is part of a research I have been carrying out for two years now on organic forms derived from the observation of the human/animal body. Artworks carried out in the last period come from a reflection on nature, the interiority of the body, and its hybrid and alien forms. From there, I would like to continue my research starting with the observation of animal, marine and plant species and, above all, micro-organisms, in order to create new ceramic sculptures. A new unknown world inhabited by undiscovered living organisms. They could live in an earthly world, in a science-fiction one or they could be organisms from the future. At that point we will face several questions: Can this ‘being’ exist in nature? Could it be the future result of a form born out of some genetic mutation? Or is it a species that, due to pollution, has already become extinct? Or maybe it’s just a monster that lives and feeds on our emotions? The sculptures I will create will be made out of different media: ceramic, steel, wood, textile… and other kind of material that I can find there.

Installation and Sculpture

CV Summary

Education

• 2007 M.F.A., Academy of Fine Art of Brera, Milan (Sacred Art)
• 2003 B.A., Academy of Fine Art of Brera, Milan (Sculpture)

Solo exhibitions

• 2023 Intus | showcase, Traffic Gallery, Bergamo, Italy
• 2023 Camilla Marinoni: La vertigine della forma, MO.CA., Brescia, Italy
• 2021 Sintomi della fiducia, (Art Together Now), Fondazione Bernareggi, Bergamo, Italy
• 2021 Alla muta cenere io canto, Fondazione Leonesio, Puegnago del Garda, Italy
• 2021 Ricamare il vuoto, online gallery, Zerial Art Project
• 2019 Zaffo, intessuto nelle profondità, San Lorenzo Minore’s Church, Bergamo, Italy
• 2018 Madre, performance, Bergamo, Italy
• 2017 A MERET, Fondazione Bernareggi, Bergamo, Italy
• 2015 CoffeeBreak.Museum, Museo Gianetti, Saronno, Italy
• 2013 It’s Balance, galleria OffBrera, Milan

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2023 L’uomo non è che una canna – Fragilità e dimensione spirituale, Collezione Paolo VI, Concesio, Brescia, Italy
• 2023 Naturalismi, galleria MEB, Borgnomanero, Italy
• 2023 Fiberstorming, Ex Ateneo, (25^ anniversary World Texile Art) Bergamo, Italy
• 2022 Archeologie del contemporaneo. Sospensioni, galleria Gulli Arte, Savona, Italy
• 2022 Archeologie del contemporaneo. Svelamenti, Museo Archeologico, Savona, Italy
• 2022 Luce, Palazzo Costantino, Palermo
• 2022 Anàstasi – Turbamenti, immersioni, attese, rinascite, galleria Giovanni Bonelli, Pietrasanta (LU), Italy
• 2021 Ars Memoriae, Palazzo Branciforte – Fondazione Sicilia, Palermo
• 2021 Naturalismi, galleria Febo&Dafne,Turin
• 2021 Esercizi di purezza, galleria Villa Contemporanea, Monza, Italy
• 2020 Ti Bergamo – Una comunità, GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy
• 2020 ArteamCup 2020, Fondazione Dino Zoli, Forlì, Italy
• 2019 Prima che le foglie cadano, Broletto, Pavia, Italy
• 2018 Prima che le foglie cadano, Villa Damioli – Fondazione Cicogna Rampana, Palazzolo sull’Oglio (Italy)
• 2017 IX Biennale di Soncino. A Marco, Sforza Castle, Soncino, Italy [catalogue]
• 2014 Anche le tartarughe fanno rumore quando respirano, Palazzo Gentilizio, Pietrarubbia, Italy
• 2011 Le case dell’arte – Habitart, galleria OffBrera, Milan
• 2009 Preziosi, Leo Galleries, Monza, Italy
• 2009 Movimentazioni, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa
• 2009 Corredi, scorte e rituali d’amore – I mestieri femminili dell’arte contemporanea, Galleria OffBrera, Milan
• 2007 V° International Biennale “Felice Casorati”, Italian Culture Institute, Krakow, Poland
• 2005 Floating Sites – Marking Sites, 51° Venice Biennale, collateral event, Venice

Awards

• 2023 99 Future Blue-Chip Artists, Artsted Prize, Award Nomination
• 2022 Premio Paolo VI per l’arte contemporanea, Award Nomination, Brescia (Italy)
• 2022 Exibart Prize, Award Nomination
• 2022 Combat Prize, Featured Artist, Livorno (Italy)
• 2021 Exibart Prize, Award Nomination
• 2020 ArteamCup 2020, Special Prize “Bonelli Arte”, Forlì (Italy)
• 2019 Arteam Cup 2019, Special Prize “Villa Nobel”, San Remo (Italy)
• 2019 Arteam Cup 2019, Innocenzo Turco Prize, San Remo (Italy)
• 2018 Best NICE Artist, Paratissima, Turin
• 2018 Best 15 Prize, Paratissima, Turin
• 2015 CoffeeBreak.Museum, 3rd prize, Museo Gianetti, Saronno (VA), Italy
• 2006 V°Biennale Internazionale di Pittura “Felice Casorati”, special prize, Pavarolo, Italy
• 2005 Award paint, 2nd prize, Trenzano, Italy
• 2005 Esperienze della Scultura Contemporanea all’Accademia di Brera, First Prize, S. Pietro all’Olmo, Cornaredo, Italy

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