Giusy Lauriola

Joined Artfinder: Dec. 2021

Artworks for sale: 86

Italy

About Giusy Lauriola

 
 
  • Biography
    According to me, art is a magical silence, transcending space and time, where inner images find expression. Since childhood, I hid under the living room table, drawing, cutting, pasting - a practice I continue in my studio today.

    In recent years, my art reflects contemplation of reality, free from biases, beyond good and evil, male and female, exploring the limbo between consciousness and unconsciousness. I seek to reveal positive aspects that surround me.

    This journey led to a painting technique with layered colors, materials, and resins, guided by the brush stroke. Each layer becomes a meditative mantra, fostering empathy with the longed-for, dreamed real.

    Three main themes emerged: "Dialogue with Nature" blending abstraction and figurative symbolism using everyday objects hinting at human presence; " Suspended Atmospheres" where light takes center stage, freeing figures from temporal constraints, existing in a timeless, metaphysical dimension, akin to an artist's dream; and "Suspended Feelings" portraying close faces of a man and a woman, evoking intimate connections, opposing today's individualistic drift.

    Inspiration comes from Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, and Mario Schifano, with Schiele's drawing style being an iconic influence.


    Since 2004 she has had successful exhibitions in Italy and abroad, the most recent of which are in 2023 – Close your eyes, Aranciera di San Sisto, Rome and Artètika Gallery, Palermo (solo exhibition); in 2022 - We take the swampy path to the clouds, Galleria Umberto Mastroianni in San Salvatore in Lauro  Museum, Rome (solo exhibition); participation in the International SyArt Sorrento Festival, Villa Fiorentino, Sorrento Foundation; illustrations for the publishing project Guido Levi, a story full of fears, anxieties and almost yellow events 1942-1946; in 2019 Domino/ Domination for fun and for real, MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome.

    PRIZES AND AWARDS

    As part of the SyArt Sorrento International Festival, she was awarded the Arbiter Fata Verde 2021 Prize for her interesting and valuable artistic research and was given the front cover with an interview in the April 2022 issue of Arbiter magazine.  She also received the  Honourable Mention from the Circle Foundation for the Arts 2020 and 2022; she was a finalist in the Lupa Award 2020 and the  Celeste  Award 2007 and in 2015 she was Pier Maria Rossi Museum  competition winner. Her works can be found in the Copelouzos Family Art Museum in Athens, the SanPaolo Invest ArtCollection in Rome, in the Antonio Sapone Municipal Art Gallery in Gaeta and in other international private collections. She is featured in the 2020 edition of the De Agostini Atlas of Contemporary Art, the most comprehensive survey of Italian artists from 1950 to the present. In 2006 she was invited to exhibit as honour guest at the International Photo Festival in Lodz (Poland), in 2010 at the Italian Cultural Institute in Damascus (Syria) with the solo exhibition Urban Visions in Progress and at the International Symposium in Idlib (Syria) organized by the Syrian Ministry of Culture.


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  • Education

    2018 - 2019

    Pencil Art Scuola Illustrazione Umberto

    1996 - 1998

    San Giacomo Art and Craft Rome

    1982 - 1987

    University La Sapienza of Rome

  • Awards

    2021

    Premio Arbiter Fata Verde

    As part of the SyArt Sorrento International Festival she was awarded the Arbiter Fata Verde 2021 Prize for the interesting and valuable artistic research

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    2020

    Premio Lupa

    Finalist

    2020

    Honorable Mention, from Circle Foundation for the Arts

    Honorable Mention, from Circle Foundation for the Arts 2020

    2015

    Museo Pier Maria Rossi- premio arte contemporanea

    winner of the Pier Maria Rossi Museum competition

    2007

    Premio Celeste

    Finalist
  • Upcoming Events

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    Previous events

    Event: IL CIELO IN UNA STANZA

    Dates: 1 Sep 2023 - 3 Sep 2023

    Venue: AUDITORIUM DI SAN PANCRAZIO, TARQUINIA - ITALY

    Presentation of Lauriola's works of recent years, whose artistic production comes to life from a careful contemplation on the surrounding reality, a deep reflection without filters or prejudices, beyond good and evil, beyond male and female, in that limbo between conscious and unconscious that has often led her to ask questions about the enigmas and distortions of the world, in order to try to always capture and bring out the positive aspects that surround her.
    This path of research has turned into a painting technique that is developed through the laying down of different layers of color, material and resin and the relationship with the sign stroke. Each layer is like a mantra that leads her to the achievement of empathy with the longed-for, dreamed real.
    There are three main strands that the artist has developed in recent years, "Dialogue with Nature," "Feelings and Suspended Atmospheres."

    Event: “Human Nature“, International Meeting of Contemporary art

    Dates: 10 Jun 2023 - 15 Oct 2023

    Venue: Villa Fiorentino, Sorrento - Italy

    Every seven years a cycle comes to a close, made up of shared experiences in which an update is presented, a status quo on the artistic experience of contemporary authors working at an international level.
    The new location stimulates an unprecedented dialogue with the place, with a visual journey between painting, sculpture and installations. Nature manifests itself through the experiential leitmotif of artists living their own time, in an attempt to decode it they strengthen the conversation with Mother Nature, translating thoughts and reflections into a polyform content.
    The exhibition is on view from June 10 to Oct. 15 at Villa Fiorentino,

    Event: CHIUDI GLI OCCHI

    Dates: 7 Jun 2023 - 24 Jun 2023

    Venue: ARTETIKA, PALERMO - ITALY

    "The relationship between human being and nature," writes Carlo Ercoli in his critical text within the catalog, "is the focus on which Lauriola's latest production concentrates, finding completion in the canvases created for the site-specific exhibition at the Aranciera di San Sisto, a building constructed in 1926 to provide shelter for those plants most affected by winter temperatures. Right here in this strip of Rome charged with history, a dimension of temporal suspension is perceived. Such a protective atmosphere toward delicate plants, in a place where the bucolic idyll still shines embedded in the beating heart of the city, deeply inspired the artist."

    Event: CHIUDI GLI OCCHI

    Dates: 18 May 2023 - 26 May 2023

    Venue: ARANCIERA DI SAN SISTO, ROME- ITALY

    "The relationship between human being and nature," writes Carlo Ercoli in his critical text within the catalog, "is the focus on which Lauriola's latest production concentrates, finding completion in the canvases created for the site-specific exhibition at the Aranciera di San Sisto, a building constructed in 1926 to provide shelter for those plants most affected by winter temperatures. Right here in this strip of Rome charged with history, a dimension of temporal suspension is perceived. Such a protective atmosphere toward delicate plants, in a place where the bucolic idyll still shines embedded in the beating heart of the city, deeply inspired the artist."

    Event: Da Cajeta a Circe con Ecce Domina Cajeta Art Action,

    Dates: 12 Mar 2023 - 29 Apr 2023

    Venue: Pinacoteca Antonio Sapone, GAETA -ITALY

    Exhibition decicated to the myth of the Argonauts, Circe and her daughter Medea in love with Jason and Cajeta, Aeneas's nurse. Exhibition organized in the splendid setting of Gaeta specifically in the Pinacoteca Antonio Sapone is located high in the ancient part of the city

    Event: Greetings from Athens

    Dates: 5 Jun 2022 - 11 Jun 2022

    Venue: Domus Art Gallery, Athens

    Art residency at Domus Art Gallery Athens, Greece (curated by Manuela De Leonardis;

    Event: Prendiamo il sentiero paludoso per arrivare alle nuvole,

    Dates: 2 Mar 2022 - 31 May 2022

    Venue: MUSEO DI SAN SALVATOE IN LAURO, ROME -Italy

    Let us take the swampy path to get to the clouds," seguw an introspective iter that stems from the evocation of a haiku. The very essence of Lauriola's work is condensed in this metaphorical phrase that alludes to the difficulties of an untrodden path, and to the final goal represented by detachment. Painting itself, for the artist, is always a meditative moment that places her in the presence of the deepest part of the ego

    Event: Art is Over part of Art Days Napoli Campania

    Dates: 16 Dec 2021 - 19 Dec 2021

    Venue: SyArt Gallery, Sorrento - Italy

    The collective exhibition "Art is Over" of the SyArt gallery is part of the project extended to the galleries of Campania "Art Days - Naples and Campania" which will take place from 13 to 19 December with a series of side events and in which we have been included (the gallery will be part of the event of December 16)

    Event: ARTE in NUVOLA

    Dates: 18 Nov 2021 - 21 Nov 2021

    Venue: ARTE in NUVOLA Contemporary Art Fair, La Nuvola di Fuksas - Rome

    Participation at the Rome ARTE in NUVOLA Contemporary Art Fair with the SpazioCima Gallery

    Event: SyArt Sorrento International Festival

    Dates: 16 Jul 2021 - 12 Sep 2021

    Venue: Villa Fiorentini, Sorrento - Italy

    Winner Arbiter Prize Fairy Green 2021 in the context of SyArt Sorrento Festival International Festival - Sorrento Villa Fiorentini -

    Event: Guido Levi. Una storia piena di paure, di ansie e di storie quasi gialle 1942–1946

    Dates: 10 Jul 2021 - 11 Jul 2021

    Venue: CAPALBIO LIBRI, Capalbio Grosseto Italy

    Presentation at Capalbio Libri of the publishing project Guido Levi. A story full of fears, anxieties and almost yellow stories 1942-1946 (edited by Manuela De Leonardis) for which I did the illustrations

    Event: Amabie La magica profezia dello Yokai

    Dates: 12 May 2021 - 16 May 2021

    Venue: Mo.C.A. Studio Gallery, Rome

    SOLO EXHIBITION Amabie La magica profezia dello Yokai

    Event: PERIMETRO INFINITO

    Dates: 30 Sep 2020 - 30 Oct 2020

    Venue: Spazio Cima Gallery, Rome Italy

    At SpazioCima on display from Wednesday, September 30 until Friday, October 30 the new solo exhibition of the artist

    Event: Sixtysteps

    Dates: 1 Dec 2019 - 19 Mar 2019

    Venue: Contesta Rock Hair, Rome

    On Wednesday, December 19 in the Testaccio salon - in Piazza Santa Maria Liberatrice, 46 -, Sixtysteps by the artist Giusy Lauriola will be inaugurated, which will be open to the public until next March 19, 2019.

    Event: About Dreams

    Dates: 29 Oct 2019 - 5 Nov 2019

    Venue: MoCa studio Gallery, Roma

    a cura di Carlo Ercoli

    Event: Women InColors

    Dates: 9 May 2019 - 30 Jun 2019

    Venue: Domus Art Gallery, Athens

    Domus Art Gallery presents on Thursday 9th May 2019, the “Women InColors” exhibition with the artworks of two artists: the Italian Giusy Lauriola and the Greek-Irish natassa Kaloti.

    Event: Iosepha

    Dates: 8 Mar 2018 - 22 Mar 2018

    Venue: Spazio Cima Gallery, Rome Italy

    Sharp and decisive brushstrokes, blurred colors sometimes surreal, realistic subjects but never defined. The works of Giusy Lauriola

    Event: Dodici

    Dates: 16 Nov 2016 - 26 Jan 2017

    Venue: Banca Generali, Rome

    TWELVE

    Giusy Lauriola 2004-2016

    curated by Ada Egidio

    Headquarters Banca Generali

    Via Bissolati - Rome

    Event: Dreamland

    Dates: 18 Mar 2016 - 18 Apr 2016

    Venue: Domus Art Gallery, Athens

    Dreamland - Domus Art Gallery – Atene – Grecia - (a cura di Glenda Lorenzani - catalogo)

    Event: Fuori dal mondo

    Dates: 18 Jun 2015 - 18 Jul 2015

    Venue: Collezionando Gallery, Via Cavallini, 22 - Roma

    The Collezionando Gallery of Ada Egidio opens on June 18, 2015 the exhibition entitled "Out of the world" by Giusy Lauriola in the new location in Prati, Rome. The artist is at her second solo exhibition in this space.

    Event: Butterfly Effect

    Dates: 6 Dec 2014 - 6 Jan 2015

    Venue: Domus Art Gallery, Athens

    Domus Art Home Gallery opens in Athens on December 6, 2014 with the exhibition "Butterfly effect" by the Roman artist Giusy Lauriola its activity dedicated to contemporary art.

    Event: Qui e Ora

    Dates: 5 Apr 2014 - 10 May 2014

    Venue: Collezionando Gallery, Via Cavallini, 22 - Roma

    The Collezionando Gallery opens Saturday, April 5 at 18.30 the solo exhibition of Giusy Lauriola that has as its title - Here and Now -, curated by Ada Egidio. T

    Event: Aspirazioni Urbane

    Dates: 5 Jun 2013 - 26 Jun 2013

    Venue: Studio Gallery Mo.Ca, Rome

    URBAN ASPIRATIONS

    The protagonists are urban travelers, a recurring theme in his artistic career, who create a vision, the continuous pilgrimage without a defined destination, a metaphor for existence. In this particular atmosphere, wings can be seen. Butterfly wings resting on travelers who seem almost not to be aware of it. Their aspirations, their dreams that they carry inside every day in their incessant pilgrimage: dreamlike transfiguration of human thought

    Event: Viandante Urbano a cura di Cristina Del Ferraro

    Dates: 19 Oct 2011 - 18 Nov 2011

    Venue: Studio Gallery Mo.Ca, Rome

    The center of the narrative is the city, always at the center of Lauriola's reflection, in which the attention is focused on some individuals, portrayed as if they were wayfarers, aimless pilgrims who escape any identification.

    Event: Visioni urbane in Fermento -

    Dates: 16 May 2010 - 29 May 2010

    Venue: Centro Culturale Arabo. Aburemmaneh, Damasco Siria

    Visioni urbane in Fermento - Centro Culturale Arabo. Aburemmaneh - Damasco (Siria) - (a cura di Carlo Ercoli - catalogo)

    Event: Blowing in the wind

    Dates: 15 Nov 2009 - 15 Dec 2009

    Venue: Galleria Ercoli Arte Contemporanea, Rome

    Blowing in the wind - galleria Ercoli Arte Contemporanea - Roma - (a cura di Carlo Ercoli – catalogo)

    Event: Sei gradi. Un Istante

    Dates: 12 May 2009 - 30 Jun 2009

    Venue: Galleria 196 - Roma, Via dei Coronari 196 Rome

    Sei gradi. Un Istante - Galleria 196 - Roma - (a cura di Manuela De Leonardis - catalogo)

    Event: Extra-Urbane

    Dates: 25 Sep 2008 - 24 Oct 2008

    Venue: Galleria 196 - Roma, Via dei Coronari 196 Rome

    Extra-Urbane - Galleria 196 - Roma - (a cura di Micol di Veroli – catalogo)

    Event: Oltre

    Dates: 12 Oct 2007 - 31 Oct 2007

    Venue: ABITAR ART HOTEL, ROME

    Oltre - Abitart - Roma - calendario espositivo di “Roma Design più”, rassegna internazionale Promossa dall’Università “La Sapienza” - (a cura di Micol di Veroli - catalogo)

    Event: D.I.O. - Il Frantoio - Capalbio (Grosseto) - (a cura di Gianluca Marziani

    Dates: 21 Jul 2007 - 12 Aug 2007

    Venue: Il Frantoio, Capalbio, Grosseto, Italy

    Il Frantoio - Capalbio (Grosseto) - (a cura di Gianluca Marziani – catalogo)

    Event: D.I.O

    Dates: 15 Jun 2007 - 29 Jun 2007

    Venue: Artemisia Art Gallery, Montecarlo (Principato di Monaco)

    D.I.O. - Artemisia Art Gallery - Montecarlo (Principato di Monaco)

    Event: S.P.Q.R.

    Dates: 7 Feb 2007 - 23 Feb 2007

    Venue: Studio Gallery Mo.Ca, Rome

    S.P.Q.R. - Studio Mo.Ca - Roma - (a cura di Giorgia Calò – catalogo)

    Event: V edition of International FotoFestiva Killing Paradise

    Dates: 18 May 2006 - 21 May 2006

    Venue: International FotoFestival - Lodz, Polonia

    Honor Guest of the Killing Paradise - International FotoFestival - Lodz (a cura di Agnieszka Zakrzewicz Polonia)

    Event: Ciò che vuoi è ciò di cui hai bisogno? -

    Dates: 7 Apr 2006 - 30 Apr 2006

    Venue: S. Cecilia in Trastevere, Roma

    Ciò che vuoi è ciò di cui hai bisogno? - S. Cecilia in Trastevere - Roma - (a cura di Cristina del Ferraro – catalogo)

    Event: Istanti

    Dates: 13 May 2005 - 30 Jun 2005

    Venue: Studio Gallery Mo.Ca, Rome

    Istanti - Mo.Ca.- Roma (a cura di Cristina del Ferraro - catalogo)

    Event: Cambialamore

    Dates: 30 Sep 2004 - 30 Oct 2004

    Venue: SALON PRIVE’ ARTI VISIVE, Via Natal del Grande Roma

    Cambialamore - Salon Privé Arti Visive - Roma - (a cura di Sergio Rispoli - catalogo)

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Education

2018 - 2019

Pencil Art Scuola Illustrazione Umberto

1996 - 1998

San Giacomo Art and Craft Rome

1982 - 1987

University La Sapienza of Rome


Awards

2021

Premio Arbiter Fata Verde

As part of the SyArt Sorrento International Festival she was awarded the Arbiter Fata Verde 2021 Prize for the interesting and valuable artistic research

Show more awards Hide

2020

Premio Lupa

Finalist

2020

Honorable Mention, from Circle Foundation for the Arts

Honorable Mention, from Circle Foundation for the Arts 2020

2015

Museo Pier Maria Rossi- premio arte contemporanea

winner of the Pier Maria Rossi Museum competition

2007

Premio Celeste

Finalist

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Previous events

Event: IL CIELO IN UNA STANZA

Dates: 1 Sep 2023 - 3 Sep 2023

Venue: AUDITORIUM DI SAN PANCRAZIO, TARQUINIA - ITALY

Presentation of Lauriola's works of recent years, whose artistic production comes to life from a careful contemplation on the surrounding reality, a deep reflection without filters or prejudices, beyond good and evil, beyond male and female, in that limbo between conscious and unconscious that has often led her to ask questions about the enigmas and distortions of the world, in order to try to always capture and bring out the positive aspects that surround her.
This path of research has turned into a painting technique that is developed through the laying down of different layers of color, material and resin and the relationship with the sign stroke. Each layer is like a mantra that leads her to the achievement of empathy with the longed-for, dreamed real.
There are three main strands that the artist has developed in recent years, "Dialogue with Nature," "Feelings and Suspended Atmospheres."

Event: “Human Nature“, International Meeting of Contemporary art

Dates: 10 Jun 2023 - 15 Oct 2023

Venue: Villa Fiorentino, Sorrento - Italy

Every seven years a cycle comes to a close, made up of shared experiences in which an update is presented, a status quo on the artistic experience of contemporary authors working at an international level.
The new location stimulates an unprecedented dialogue with the place, with a visual journey between painting, sculpture and installations. Nature manifests itself through the experiential leitmotif of artists living their own time, in an attempt to decode it they strengthen the conversation with Mother Nature, translating thoughts and reflections into a polyform content.
The exhibition is on view from June 10 to Oct. 15 at Villa Fiorentino,

Event: CHIUDI GLI OCCHI

Dates: 7 Jun 2023 - 24 Jun 2023

Venue: ARTETIKA, PALERMO - ITALY

"The relationship between human being and nature," writes Carlo Ercoli in his critical text within the catalog, "is the focus on which Lauriola's latest production concentrates, finding completion in the canvases created for the site-specific exhibition at the Aranciera di San Sisto, a building constructed in 1926 to provide shelter for those plants most affected by winter temperatures. Right here in this strip of Rome charged with history, a dimension of temporal suspension is perceived. Such a protective atmosphere toward delicate plants, in a place where the bucolic idyll still shines embedded in the beating heart of the city, deeply inspired the artist."

Event: CHIUDI GLI OCCHI

Dates: 18 May 2023 - 26 May 2023

Venue: ARANCIERA DI SAN SISTO, ROME- ITALY

"The relationship between human being and nature," writes Carlo Ercoli in his critical text within the catalog, "is the focus on which Lauriola's latest production concentrates, finding completion in the canvases created for the site-specific exhibition at the Aranciera di San Sisto, a building constructed in 1926 to provide shelter for those plants most affected by winter temperatures. Right here in this strip of Rome charged with history, a dimension of temporal suspension is perceived. Such a protective atmosphere toward delicate plants, in a place where the bucolic idyll still shines embedded in the beating heart of the city, deeply inspired the artist."

Event: Da Cajeta a Circe con Ecce Domina Cajeta Art Action,

Dates: 12 Mar 2023 - 29 Apr 2023

Venue: Pinacoteca Antonio Sapone, GAETA -ITALY

Exhibition decicated to the myth of the Argonauts, Circe and her daughter Medea in love with Jason and Cajeta, Aeneas's nurse. Exhibition organized in the splendid setting of Gaeta specifically in the Pinacoteca Antonio Sapone is located high in the ancient part of the city

Event: Greetings from Athens

Dates: 5 Jun 2022 - 11 Jun 2022

Venue: Domus Art Gallery, Athens

Art residency at Domus Art Gallery Athens, Greece (curated by Manuela De Leonardis;

Event: Prendiamo il sentiero paludoso per arrivare alle nuvole,

Dates: 2 Mar 2022 - 31 May 2022

Venue: MUSEO DI SAN SALVATOE IN LAURO, ROME -Italy

Let us take the swampy path to get to the clouds," seguw an introspective iter that stems from the evocation of a haiku. The very essence of Lauriola's work is condensed in this metaphorical phrase that alludes to the difficulties of an untrodden path, and to the final goal represented by detachment. Painting itself, for the artist, is always a meditative moment that places her in the presence of the deepest part of the ego

Event: Art is Over part of Art Days Napoli Campania

Dates: 16 Dec 2021 - 19 Dec 2021

Venue: SyArt Gallery, Sorrento - Italy

The collective exhibition "Art is Over" of the SyArt gallery is part of the project extended to the galleries of Campania "Art Days - Naples and Campania" which will take place from 13 to 19 December with a series of side events and in which we have been included (the gallery will be part of the event of December 16)

Event: ARTE in NUVOLA

Dates: 18 Nov 2021 - 21 Nov 2021

Venue: ARTE in NUVOLA Contemporary Art Fair, La Nuvola di Fuksas - Rome

Participation at the Rome ARTE in NUVOLA Contemporary Art Fair with the SpazioCima Gallery

Event: SyArt Sorrento International Festival

Dates: 16 Jul 2021 - 12 Sep 2021

Venue: Villa Fiorentini, Sorrento - Italy

Winner Arbiter Prize Fairy Green 2021 in the context of SyArt Sorrento Festival International Festival - Sorrento Villa Fiorentini -

Event: Guido Levi. Una storia piena di paure, di ansie e di storie quasi gialle 1942–1946

Dates: 10 Jul 2021 - 11 Jul 2021

Venue: CAPALBIO LIBRI, Capalbio Grosseto Italy

Presentation at Capalbio Libri of the publishing project Guido Levi. A story full of fears, anxieties and almost yellow stories 1942-1946 (edited by Manuela De Leonardis) for which I did the illustrations

Event: Amabie La magica profezia dello Yokai

Dates: 12 May 2021 - 16 May 2021

Venue: Mo.C.A. Studio Gallery, Rome

SOLO EXHIBITION Amabie La magica profezia dello Yokai

Event: PERIMETRO INFINITO

Dates: 30 Sep 2020 - 30 Oct 2020

Venue: Spazio Cima Gallery, Rome Italy

At SpazioCima on display from Wednesday, September 30 until Friday, October 30 the new solo exhibition of the artist

Event: Sixtysteps

Dates: 1 Dec 2019 - 19 Mar 2019

Venue: Contesta Rock Hair, Rome

On Wednesday, December 19 in the Testaccio salon - in Piazza Santa Maria Liberatrice, 46 -, Sixtysteps by the artist Giusy Lauriola will be inaugurated, which will be open to the public until next March 19, 2019.

Event: About Dreams

Dates: 29 Oct 2019 - 5 Nov 2019

Venue: MoCa studio Gallery, Roma

a cura di Carlo Ercoli

Event: Women InColors

Dates: 9 May 2019 - 30 Jun 2019

Venue: Domus Art Gallery, Athens

Domus Art Gallery presents on Thursday 9th May 2019, the “Women InColors” exhibition with the artworks of two artists: the Italian Giusy Lauriola and the Greek-Irish natassa Kaloti.

Event: Iosepha

Dates: 8 Mar 2018 - 22 Mar 2018

Venue: Spazio Cima Gallery, Rome Italy

Sharp and decisive brushstrokes, blurred colors sometimes surreal, realistic subjects but never defined. The works of Giusy Lauriola

Event: Dodici

Dates: 16 Nov 2016 - 26 Jan 2017

Venue: Banca Generali, Rome

TWELVE

Giusy Lauriola 2004-2016

curated by Ada Egidio

Headquarters Banca Generali

Via Bissolati - Rome

Event: Dreamland

Dates: 18 Mar 2016 - 18 Apr 2016

Venue: Domus Art Gallery, Athens

Dreamland - Domus Art Gallery – Atene – Grecia - (a cura di Glenda Lorenzani - catalogo)

Event: Fuori dal mondo

Dates: 18 Jun 2015 - 18 Jul 2015

Venue: Collezionando Gallery, Via Cavallini, 22 - Roma

The Collezionando Gallery of Ada Egidio opens on June 18, 2015 the exhibition entitled "Out of the world" by Giusy Lauriola in the new location in Prati, Rome. The artist is at her second solo exhibition in this space.

Event: Butterfly Effect

Dates: 6 Dec 2014 - 6 Jan 2015

Venue: Domus Art Gallery, Athens

Domus Art Home Gallery opens in Athens on December 6, 2014 with the exhibition "Butterfly effect" by the Roman artist Giusy Lauriola its activity dedicated to contemporary art.

Event: Qui e Ora

Dates: 5 Apr 2014 - 10 May 2014

Venue: Collezionando Gallery, Via Cavallini, 22 - Roma

The Collezionando Gallery opens Saturday, April 5 at 18.30 the solo exhibition of Giusy Lauriola that has as its title - Here and Now -, curated by Ada Egidio. T

Event: Aspirazioni Urbane

Dates: 5 Jun 2013 - 26 Jun 2013

Venue: Studio Gallery Mo.Ca, Rome

URBAN ASPIRATIONS

The protagonists are urban travelers, a recurring theme in his artistic career, who create a vision, the continuous pilgrimage without a defined destination, a metaphor for existence. In this particular atmosphere, wings can be seen. Butterfly wings resting on travelers who seem almost not to be aware of it. Their aspirations, their dreams that they carry inside every day in their incessant pilgrimage: dreamlike transfiguration of human thought

Event: Viandante Urbano a cura di Cristina Del Ferraro

Dates: 19 Oct 2011 - 18 Nov 2011

Venue: Studio Gallery Mo.Ca, Rome

The center of the narrative is the city, always at the center of Lauriola's reflection, in which the attention is focused on some individuals, portrayed as if they were wayfarers, aimless pilgrims who escape any identification.

Event: Visioni urbane in Fermento -

Dates: 16 May 2010 - 29 May 2010

Venue: Centro Culturale Arabo. Aburemmaneh, Damasco Siria

Visioni urbane in Fermento - Centro Culturale Arabo. Aburemmaneh - Damasco (Siria) - (a cura di Carlo Ercoli - catalogo)

Event: Blowing in the wind

Dates: 15 Nov 2009 - 15 Dec 2009

Venue: Galleria Ercoli Arte Contemporanea, Rome

Blowing in the wind - galleria Ercoli Arte Contemporanea - Roma - (a cura di Carlo Ercoli – catalogo)

Event: Sei gradi. Un Istante

Dates: 12 May 2009 - 30 Jun 2009

Venue: Galleria 196 - Roma, Via dei Coronari 196 Rome

Sei gradi. Un Istante - Galleria 196 - Roma - (a cura di Manuela De Leonardis - catalogo)

Event: Extra-Urbane

Dates: 25 Sep 2008 - 24 Oct 2008

Venue: Galleria 196 - Roma, Via dei Coronari 196 Rome

Extra-Urbane - Galleria 196 - Roma - (a cura di Micol di Veroli – catalogo)

Event: Oltre

Dates: 12 Oct 2007 - 31 Oct 2007

Venue: ABITAR ART HOTEL, ROME

Oltre - Abitart - Roma - calendario espositivo di “Roma Design più”, rassegna internazionale Promossa dall’Università “La Sapienza” - (a cura di Micol di Veroli - catalogo)

Event: D.I.O. - Il Frantoio - Capalbio (Grosseto) - (a cura di Gianluca Marziani

Dates: 21 Jul 2007 - 12 Aug 2007

Venue: Il Frantoio, Capalbio, Grosseto, Italy

Il Frantoio - Capalbio (Grosseto) - (a cura di Gianluca Marziani – catalogo)

Event: D.I.O

Dates: 15 Jun 2007 - 29 Jun 2007

Venue: Artemisia Art Gallery, Montecarlo (Principato di Monaco)

D.I.O. - Artemisia Art Gallery - Montecarlo (Principato di Monaco)

Event: S.P.Q.R.

Dates: 7 Feb 2007 - 23 Feb 2007

Venue: Studio Gallery Mo.Ca, Rome

S.P.Q.R. - Studio Mo.Ca - Roma - (a cura di Giorgia Calò – catalogo)

Event: V edition of International FotoFestiva Killing Paradise

Dates: 18 May 2006 - 21 May 2006

Venue: International FotoFestival - Lodz, Polonia

Honor Guest of the Killing Paradise - International FotoFestival - Lodz (a cura di Agnieszka Zakrzewicz Polonia)

Event: Ciò che vuoi è ciò di cui hai bisogno? -

Dates: 7 Apr 2006 - 30 Apr 2006

Venue: S. Cecilia in Trastevere, Roma

Ciò che vuoi è ciò di cui hai bisogno? - S. Cecilia in Trastevere - Roma - (a cura di Cristina del Ferraro – catalogo)

Event: Istanti

Dates: 13 May 2005 - 30 Jun 2005

Venue: Studio Gallery Mo.Ca, Rome

Istanti - Mo.Ca.- Roma (a cura di Cristina del Ferraro - catalogo)

Event: Cambialamore

Dates: 30 Sep 2004 - 30 Oct 2004

Venue: SALON PRIVE’ ARTI VISIVE, Via Natal del Grande Roma

Cambialamore - Salon Privé Arti Visive - Roma - (a cura di Sergio Rispoli - catalogo)


 

Biography

According to me, art is a magical silence, transcending space and time, where inner images find expression. Since childhood, I hid under the living room table, drawing, cutting, pasting - a practice I continue in my studio today.

In recent years, my art reflects contemplation of reality, free from biases, beyond good and evil, male and female, exploring the limbo between consciousness and unconsciousness. I seek to reveal positive aspects that surround me.

This journey led to a painting technique with layered colors, materials, and resins, guided by the brush stroke. Each layer becomes a meditative mantra, fostering empathy with the longed-for, dreamed real.

Three main themes emerged: "Dialogue with Nature" blending abstraction and figurative symbolism using everyday objects hinting at human presence; " Suspended Atmospheres" where light takes center stage, freeing figures from temporal constraints, existing in a timeless, metaphysical dimension, akin to an artist's dream; and "Suspended Feelings" portraying close faces of a man and a woman, evoking intimate connections, opposing today's individualistic drift.

Inspiration comes from Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, and Mario Schifano, with Schiele's drawing style being an iconic influence.


Since 2004 she has had successful exhibitions in Italy and abroad, the most recent of which are in 2023 – Close your eyes, Aranciera di San Sisto, Rome and Artètika Gallery, Palermo (solo exhibition); in 2022 - We take the swampy path to the clouds, Galleria Umberto Mastroianni in San Salvatore in Lauro  Museum, Rome (solo exhibition); participation in the International SyArt Sorrento Festival, Villa Fiorentino, Sorrento Foundation; illustrations for the publishing project Guido Levi, a story full of fears, anxieties and almost yellow events 1942-1946; in 2019 Domino/ Domination for fun and for real, MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome.

PRIZES AND AWARDS

As part of the SyArt Sorrento International Festival, she was awarded the Arbiter Fata Verde 2021 Prize for her interesting and valuable artistic research and was given the front cover with an interview in the April 2022 issue of Arbiter magazine.  She also received the  Honourable Mention from the Circle Foundation for the Arts 2020 and 2022; she was a finalist in the Lupa Award 2020 and the  Celeste  Award 2007 and in 2015 she was Pier Maria Rossi Museum  competition winner. Her works can be found in the Copelouzos Family Art Museum in Athens, the SanPaolo Invest ArtCollection in Rome, in the Antonio Sapone Municipal Art Gallery in Gaeta and in other international private collections. She is featured in the 2020 edition of the De Agostini Atlas of Contemporary Art, the most comprehensive survey of Italian artists from 1950 to the present. In 2006 she was invited to exhibit as honour guest at the International Photo Festival in Lodz (Poland), in 2010 at the Italian Cultural Institute in Damascus (Syria) with the solo exhibition Urban Visions in Progress and at the International Symposium in Idlib (Syria) organized by the Syrian Ministry of Culture.