About
Biography
How My Passion Began
I have always felt the need to express color, but I thought it was too beautiful for me to dedicate myself to it body and soul as a painter, a gift for a few. Or maybe, simply, I guessed that this need would have hooked me and led me to who knows where and I was afraid.
During a two-year stay in Munich, where I went to improve my German after studying languages, I realized I could not put off any longer and I had to dive into that poetic and tumultuous world that was waiting for me. So, back in Italy, I passed the exam to be able to attend the Brera Academy, finally!
More about Me
In the meantime, as a makeup artist, I was lucky enough to work for many years at the Verona Arena, at the Salzburg Festival and in many other theatres and cites in Italy and abroad. In these experiences I filled myself with beauty, music and art. Being able to access magical places full of history such as the Arena with its arches smelling of damp, dusty costumes and humanity or the rooms of the Palazzo Ducale in Mantua, which I felt populated with souls from the past, it literally put wings on my feet. Attending the orchestral rehearsals of the greatest conductors such as Gergiev and Maazel, collaborating with directors, choreographers and costume designers of international caliber helped to make me understand the value of work, the commitment necessary to complete a project.
I was the creative director, makeup collection designer and project manager for an Italian brand for 30 years, until the color completely kidnapped me.
Artistic Statement
Painting is for me a mystical experience, the search for contact with those ancestral forces that permeate the world and that just capturing and being able to represent makes me happy.
Art consists in being able to open my window on this unknown horizon to feel in unison with what I still don’t see, but feel.
Like the pages of a diary, my canvases are overlays of thoughts and adventures that develop in metamorphosis with a life of their own, waiting to be ridden. I start a canvas but I don’t know where I’m going to end up. It is the color that leads me.
I realized that there are no “good brushstrokes and bad brushstrokes”. As in life, there is no sign that can be erased. All the signs are good and arrive on paper because they are driven by a sometimes unconscious need. The important thing is what happens next. The signs must be understood and carried forward with courage.
Sometimes I wish I could paint with my eyes closed as if the sight distracted me from that inner urge that from the heart and from the mind goes directly to the hands.
There is no certainty of a good result. I start my work with an intuition, an impulse that I don’t know where it will end. I don’t take anything for granted. Everything changes, always.
Exhibitions
Publications
- 2022 - I NARRATORI DEL NOSTRO TEMPO (commment by Dr. Vittorio Sgarbi) - MAY
- 2022 - GODDESSARTS MAGAZINE - MARCH/APRIL
- 2022 - ART ANTOLOGY IV - Madrid Edition by Guto Ajayu Culture
- 2021 - PREMIO VITTORIO SGARBI - 6 Books
- 2021 - ART NOW Sept/Oct
Solo Exhibitions
- 2024 - ROMA, Canale Monterano - ITALY - "Galleria Accademica d'Arte Contemporanea"
Exhibitions & Art Fairs
- 2024 - TORINO. ITALY - Mausoleo della Bella Rosin - " Concorso Internazionale Metropoli di Torino"
- 2023 - LONDRA. UK - Chelsea Old Town Hall - " London Art Biennale"
- 2023 - GENOVA,ITALY - Palazzo Stella - " V Biennale Genova"
- 2023 - LECCE ITALY - Must Museo Storico Off Gallery - "Io/Es/Super-Io"
- 2023 - PISA, ITALY - Gamec - "Les Femmes"
- 2022 - GENOVA, ITALY - Palazzo Stella - "27° Concorso Nazionale Arte Contemporanea"
- 2022 - VERBANIA, ITALY - Villa Simonetta - "La Collettiva delle Collettive"
- 2022 - OSTUNI, ITALY - Palazzo Tanzarella - "Veritas Feminae"
- 2022 - CHIANCIANO TERME, ITALY - Royal Gallery - "BIENNALE CHIANCIANO"
- 2022 - MESSINA, ITALY - Mudis, Museo della Ceramica, Palazzo Trabia, S.Stefano di Camastra- "Contest Foreste"
- 2022 - NOVARA, ITALY - Villa Giulia di Pallanza, Verbania- "Wunderkammer"
- 2022 - SALERNO, ITALY - Museo Diocesano - "Sublimina"
- 2022 - MILANO, ITALY - Villa Brentano, Busto Garolfo - "Identity"
- 2022 - MATERA, ITALY - Casa Cava - "Art Mater"
- 2022 - MADRID, SPAIN - Captaloona Art Gallery - "Dentro Pasolini"
- 2022 - MILANO, ITALY - Villa Brentano, Busto Garolfo - "City of the Future"
- 2021 - VENEZIA, ITALY - Imago Ars Gallery - "L'Imperfetta Bellezza"
- 2021 - FERRARA, ITALY - "PREMIO VITTORIO SGARBI"
- 2021 - FERRARA, ITALY - "PREMIO INTERNAZIONALE ISABELLA D'ESTE"
- 2021 - PADOVA, ITALY - "ARTE PADOVA"
- 2021 - HAUTE-SAVOIE, FRANCE - "Art 3F"
- 1993 - PESARO, ITALY - "Borderline - Interni d'Artista"
- 1993 - MILANO, ITALY - "Premio San Carlo Borromeo"
Manuela Pederzolli exhibiting at "Biennale Chianciano" - Chianciano Terme ITALY
Chianciano Biennale is one of the most dynamic celebrations in the world, offering the perfect venue for a wonderful and inspiring experience of international art set in a breathtaking setting.
Manuela Pederzolli exhibiting at "Villa Giulia" - Verbania, ITALY
Wunderkammer: the “Rooms of Wonders” contain in a precious casket, artworks of different styles and techniques.
Manuela Pederzolli exhibiting at "Museo Diocesano" - Salerno, ITALY
Sublimina: an unpredictable boundary between the image and the imaginary. https://www.gigarte.com/arteborgogallery/news/24398/sublimina.html
Manuela Pederzolli exhibiting at "Villa Brentano" - Milano, ITALY
Identity: a collective on the relationship between man, his own self-awareness and identity of the world. https://www.independentartists.eu/identity-una-collettiva-artistica-sul-rapporto-tra-uomo-la-sua-stessa-autocoscienza-e-identita-nel-mondo/
Manuela Pederzolli exhibiting at "CASA CAVA" - Matera, ITALY
A project of re-birth, of divination, aimed at beauty. In perhaps the darkest days of the new Millennium,art plays a privileged role: once again, it can be a reference for inspire life and its seductions. https://www.casacava.it/event/art-mater-mostra-darte-contempora/
Manuela Pederzolli exhibiting at "Villa Brentano" - Milano, ITALY
The contemporary city seen from art and artists. https://www.independentartists.eu/city-of-the-future-la-citta-contemporanea-vista-dallarte-e-dagli-artisti/
Manuela Pederzolli exhibiting at "Captaloona Gallery" - Madrid, SPAIN
“As long as man exploits man, as long as humanity is divided into masters and servants, there will be neither normality nor peace. The reason for all the evil of our time is here. “https://captaloona.com/eventos/dentro-pasolini/
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Manuela Pederzolli exhibiting at "Imago Ars- Venice, ITALY
Can we still see beauty in imperfection?.”http://www.imagoars.com/spazio_affinito.php
Manuela Pederzolli exhibiting at "FERRARA ARTEXPO"- Ferrara, ITALY
“An award dedicated to my name, my name for many is a reason for criticism of positions that may seem harsh, for others it is the name of a person who has loved art with infinite tenderness, looking for art even in the most remote “.
Vittorio Sgarbi https://www.premiovittoriosgarbi.it
Manuela Pederzolli exhibiting at "FERRARA ARTEXPO"- Ferrara, ITALY
The Award, reserved for a small number of selected artists, tends to attest their real value, underlining the importance of their stylistic path carried out in recent years. https://culturaidentita.it/premio-vittorio-sgarbi-premio-isabella-deste-grande-successo/