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Livia Alessandrini
 
 
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GLOBAL WARMING

2007
acrilic, natural pigments and sand
cm 120x120

GLOBAL WARMING

IL CAVALLO CHE VENNE DAL MARE

2005
technique mixte sur toile
cm147x114

ENTRACTE (Global warming)

2007
technique mixte sur toile
cm 50x50

EUROPA

2004
technique mixte sur toile
cm 146x114

IL SONNO DEL MITO

2007
technique mixte sur toile
cm 50x50

IL SONNO DEL MITO

STUPORE

1996
technique mixte sur toile
cm 70x70

STUPORE

TOUS LES CHEMINS MENENT A ROME

2004
technique mixte sur toile
cm 60x80

TOUS LES CHEMINS MENENT A ROME

SELF PORTRAIT AS A TRIBUTE TO ARCIMBOLDO

2010
Acrilic on canvas
cm 30x40

SELF PORTRAIT AS A TRIBUTE TO ARCIMBOLDO
Just a Tribute to italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593), and his AUTUMN. I added a bit of my world, as the obsession for labyrinths and eggs

SELF PORTRAIT AS A TRIBUTE TO NORMAN ROCKWELL

2009
acrilic on canvas
cm 70x70

SELF PORTRAIT AS A TRIBUTE TO NORMAN ROCKWELL
Just a Tribute to american painter Norman Rockwell and his "TRIPLE PORTRAIT", adding a bit of my world
 
Education and biography
BIOGRAPHY

Livia Alessandrini, an Italian painter living in Switzerland since 2002, was born in 1945 in Bern (CH) in a family of cosmopolitan diplomats.

She has lived in Lebanon, Greece, France, Spain, Switzerland and Italy-- different cultures which blend into her pictorial world.

She took her first drawing and oil painting lessons by Professor Tullio Crali, well known "pittore futurista" then a teacher at the Italian “Liceo” in Paris. She studied at the Italian “Liceo” in Paris, at La Sorbonne University (Interpreting) and at the Ecole du Louvre (History of Art). Influenced by Carzou, Buffet, Giacometti, Vieira da Silva, Gandner in the early 1960s…she created her first abstract “Soul Archeologies” by employing oil painting on any support.

After moving to Italy in the late 1960s, she felt the need to express herself by means of figurative language, at first in the expressionist way, which would become later what she herself defines “petrified language”: technique and colour make every thing granitic.
So, she “petrifies” an idea to keep it in time by painting every shape in an almost classical style. At present her texture, more and more complex and of matter, prevails over narration, as if she wanted to close her artistic path in a circle back where she had started in the early 1960s.

She has also practiced decorating (sketches and glass drawings for art glass partitions, wall paintings, advertising panels, decorative panels, wooden characters for children…)
More than forty collective and personal exhibitions. After about thirty years in Rome, she has moved her living place and studio to Villeneuve by Geneva Lake.

GROUP EXHIBITS

1988 mars-Centro Culturale Banca d’Italia-“Quando il segno crea”-ROMA(I)

1991 mars-Palazzo dei Congressi- “ARTEROMA”-ROMA(I)

1991 mai-Galleria ExAnte-“Décor fantastique”-ROMA(I)
1992 novembre-Biblioteca Comunale-“Bibliotheca”-ROMA(I)

1992 décembre-Galleria ExAnte-“Legni”-ROMA(I)

1993 décembre-Galleria ExAnte-“Pietra eterna”-ROMA(I)

1994 décembre-Banca del Lavoro per Teleton-“Memorie di pietra”-ROMA(I)

1994 décembre-Galleria ExAnte-“Teatri”-ROMA(I)

1996-Museo Aeronautico-“Angeli”-TRENTO(I)

1999-Feria Internacional de Arte Moderno-GRANADA(E)

1999 décembre-Banca del lavoro per Teleton-“Roma”-ROMA(I)

2000 septembre-Pinacoteca Comunale-“Collezione della Pinacoteca”-QUISTELLO-MANTOVA(I)

2003 –Galleria della Libreria Odradek-“Bibliotheca”-ROMA(I)

2005 mars-Magazzini del sale-“Metropolitana’57”-CERVIA-RAVENNA(I)

2005 mai- “Metropolitana’57”-RAVENNA(I)

2006 novembre - Spazio-Studio smc – “Open Gallery”-RAVENNA(I)

2007 mai-Galerie En Beauregard-“Collective”-BLONAY SUR MONTREUX(CH)
2007 juin-Galerie En Beauregard-“1stArtAwardEnBeauregard”-BLONAY SUR MONTREUX-(CH)

2007 juin-AssociazioneLineaDarte-“Ventiperventi”-NAPOLI-(I)

2007 juin-Fondation Berger-“artistes de Villeneuve/LaCrau(FR):20 ans de jumelage”-VILLENEUVE(CH)

2007 novembre-FoireMontreuxArtGallery,avecGalerieEnBeauregard-MONTREUX(CH)

SOLO EXHIBITS

1992 mai-Galleria della libreria Il seme-“Memorie di pietra”-ROMA(I)

1995 novembre –Galleria della libreria Il seme-“Simboli ed inquietudini”-ROMA(I)

1996 avril –Galleria della Libreria Borghese-“Tempo e Sapere”-ROMA(I)

1998 mai-Galleria della Libreria Il seme-“Archeologia dell’anima”-ROMA(I)

2000 juillet-Pinacoteca Comunale-« Percorsi »-QUISTELLO-MANTOVA(I)

2000 septembre-Galleria ProLoco-« Percorsi »-SUZZARA-MANTOVA(I)

2001 août-Palazzo Ducale-« Anima mundi »-REVERE(I)

2004 juillet-Temple Saint Vincent , «L’été c’est l’orgue»-MONTREUX(CH)

2004 novembre-Galerie de la Librairie d’Octodure-« Bibliotheca »-MARTIGNY(CH)

2005 avril- Galerie de la Librairie d’Octodure- « Hors du cadre »-MARTIGNY(CH)

2006 septembre – Château de la Porte du Scex - « Animi motus »-VOUVRY(CH)

2006 septembre – Bibliothéque – « Animi motus » (dessins)-VOUVRY(CH)

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Future shows
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GALERIE PORTOBELLO
art dealer M. Raphaël PETRELLI
rue de l'Eglise Catholique 8
1820 MONTREUX-SWITZERLAND
+41 79 439 47 64
 
Website:  www.livia-alessandrini.com
 
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