Giusy Lauriola

: Dec. 2021

: 86

Italy

 
 
  • 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.


  • 2018 - 2019

    Pencil Art Scuola Illustrazione Umberto

    1996 - 1998

    San Giacomo Art and Craft Rome

    1982 - 1987

    University La Sapienza of Rome

  • 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

    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
  • : IL CIELO IN UNA STANZA

    : 1 Sep 2023 - 3 Sep 2023

    : 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."

    : “Human Nature“, International Meeting of Contemporary art

    : 10 Jun 2023 - 15 Oct 2023

    : 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,

    : CHIUDI GLI OCCHI

    : 7 Jun 2023 - 24 Jun 2023

    : 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."

    : CHIUDI GLI OCCHI

    : 18 May 2023 - 26 May 2023

    : 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."

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

    : 12 Mar 2023 - 29 Apr 2023

    : 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

    : Greetings from Athens

    : 5 Jun 2022 - 11 Jun 2022

    : Domus Art Gallery, Athens

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

    : Prendiamo il sentiero paludoso per arrivare alle nuvole,

    : 2 Mar 2022 - 31 May 2022

    : 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

    : Art is Over part of Art Days Napoli Campania

    : 16 Dec 2021 - 19 Dec 2021

    : 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)

    : ARTE in NUVOLA

    : 18 Nov 2021 - 21 Nov 2021

    : 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

    : SyArt Sorrento International Festival

    : 16 Jul 2021 - 12 Sep 2021

    : Villa Fiorentini, Sorrento - Italy

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

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

    : 10 Jul 2021 - 11 Jul 2021

    : 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

    : Amabie La magica profezia dello Yokai

    : 12 May 2021 - 16 May 2021

    : Mo.C.A. Studio Gallery, Rome

    SOLO EXHIBITION Amabie La magica profezia dello Yokai

    : PERIMETRO INFINITO

    : 30 Sep 2020 - 30 Oct 2020

    : Spazio Cima Gallery, Rome Italy

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

    : Sixtysteps

    : 1 Dec 2019 - 19 Mar 2019

    : 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.

    : About Dreams

    : 29 Oct 2019 - 5 Nov 2019

    : MoCa studio Gallery, Roma

    a cura di Carlo Ercoli

    : Women InColors

    : 9 May 2019 - 30 Jun 2019

    : 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.

    : Iosepha

    : 8 Mar 2018 - 22 Mar 2018

    : Spazio Cima Gallery, Rome Italy

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

    : Dodici

    : 16 Nov 2016 - 26 Jan 2017

    : Banca Generali, Rome

    TWELVE

    Giusy Lauriola 2004-2016

    curated by Ada Egidio

    Headquarters Banca Generali

    Via Bissolati - Rome

    : Dreamland

    : 18 Mar 2016 - 18 Apr 2016

    : Domus Art Gallery, Athens

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

    : Fuori dal mondo

    : 18 Jun 2015 - 18 Jul 2015

    : 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.

    : Butterfly Effect

    : 6 Dec 2014 - 6 Jan 2015

    : 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.

    : Qui e Ora

    : 5 Apr 2014 - 10 May 2014

    : 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

    : Aspirazioni Urbane

    : 5 Jun 2013 - 26 Jun 2013

    : 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

    : Viandante Urbano a cura di Cristina Del Ferraro

    : 19 Oct 2011 - 18 Nov 2011

    : 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.

    : Visioni urbane in Fermento -

    : 16 May 2010 - 29 May 2010

    : Centro Culturale Arabo. Aburemmaneh, Damasco Siria

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

    : Blowing in the wind

    : 15 Nov 2009 - 15 Dec 2009

    : Galleria Ercoli Arte Contemporanea, Rome

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

    : Sei gradi. Un Istante

    : 12 May 2009 - 30 Jun 2009

    : Galleria 196 - Roma, Via dei Coronari 196 Rome

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

    : Extra-Urbane

    : 25 Sep 2008 - 24 Oct 2008

    : Galleria 196 - Roma, Via dei Coronari 196 Rome

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

    : Oltre

    : 12 Oct 2007 - 31 Oct 2007

    : 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)

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

    : 21 Jul 2007 - 12 Aug 2007

    : Il Frantoio, Capalbio, Grosseto, Italy

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

    : D.I.O

    : 15 Jun 2007 - 29 Jun 2007

    : Artemisia Art Gallery, Montecarlo (Principato di Monaco)

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

    : S.P.Q.R.

    : 7 Feb 2007 - 23 Feb 2007

    : Studio Gallery Mo.Ca, Rome

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

    : V edition of International FotoFestiva Killing Paradise

    : 18 May 2006 - 21 May 2006

    : International FotoFestival - Lodz, Polonia

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

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

    : 7 Apr 2006 - 30 Apr 2006

    : 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)

    : Istanti

    : 13 May 2005 - 30 Jun 2005

    : Studio Gallery Mo.Ca, Rome

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

    : Cambialamore

    : 30 Sep 2004 - 30 Oct 2004

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

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


2018 - 2019

Pencil Art Scuola Illustrazione Umberto

1996 - 1998

San Giacomo Art and Craft Rome

1982 - 1987

University La Sapienza of Rome


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

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

: IL CIELO IN UNA STANZA

: 1 Sep 2023 - 3 Sep 2023

: 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."

: “Human Nature“, International Meeting of Contemporary art

: 10 Jun 2023 - 15 Oct 2023

: 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,

: CHIUDI GLI OCCHI

: 7 Jun 2023 - 24 Jun 2023

: 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."

: CHIUDI GLI OCCHI

: 18 May 2023 - 26 May 2023

: 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."

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

: 12 Mar 2023 - 29 Apr 2023

: 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

: Greetings from Athens

: 5 Jun 2022 - 11 Jun 2022

: Domus Art Gallery, Athens

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

: Prendiamo il sentiero paludoso per arrivare alle nuvole,

: 2 Mar 2022 - 31 May 2022

: 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

: Art is Over part of Art Days Napoli Campania

: 16 Dec 2021 - 19 Dec 2021

: 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)

: ARTE in NUVOLA

: 18 Nov 2021 - 21 Nov 2021

: 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

: SyArt Sorrento International Festival

: 16 Jul 2021 - 12 Sep 2021

: Villa Fiorentini, Sorrento - Italy

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

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

: 10 Jul 2021 - 11 Jul 2021

: 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

: Amabie La magica profezia dello Yokai

: 12 May 2021 - 16 May 2021

: Mo.C.A. Studio Gallery, Rome

SOLO EXHIBITION Amabie La magica profezia dello Yokai

: PERIMETRO INFINITO

: 30 Sep 2020 - 30 Oct 2020

: Spazio Cima Gallery, Rome Italy

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

: Sixtysteps

: 1 Dec 2019 - 19 Mar 2019

: 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.

: About Dreams

: 29 Oct 2019 - 5 Nov 2019

: MoCa studio Gallery, Roma

a cura di Carlo Ercoli

: Women InColors

: 9 May 2019 - 30 Jun 2019

: 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.

: Iosepha

: 8 Mar 2018 - 22 Mar 2018

: Spazio Cima Gallery, Rome Italy

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

: Dodici

: 16 Nov 2016 - 26 Jan 2017

: Banca Generali, Rome

TWELVE

Giusy Lauriola 2004-2016

curated by Ada Egidio

Headquarters Banca Generali

Via Bissolati - Rome

: Dreamland

: 18 Mar 2016 - 18 Apr 2016

: Domus Art Gallery, Athens

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

: Fuori dal mondo

: 18 Jun 2015 - 18 Jul 2015

: 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.

: Butterfly Effect

: 6 Dec 2014 - 6 Jan 2015

: 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.

: Qui e Ora

: 5 Apr 2014 - 10 May 2014

: 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

: Aspirazioni Urbane

: 5 Jun 2013 - 26 Jun 2013

: 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

: Viandante Urbano a cura di Cristina Del Ferraro

: 19 Oct 2011 - 18 Nov 2011

: 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.

: Visioni urbane in Fermento -

: 16 May 2010 - 29 May 2010

: Centro Culturale Arabo. Aburemmaneh, Damasco Siria

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

: Blowing in the wind

: 15 Nov 2009 - 15 Dec 2009

: Galleria Ercoli Arte Contemporanea, Rome

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

: Sei gradi. Un Istante

: 12 May 2009 - 30 Jun 2009

: Galleria 196 - Roma, Via dei Coronari 196 Rome

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

: Extra-Urbane

: 25 Sep 2008 - 24 Oct 2008

: Galleria 196 - Roma, Via dei Coronari 196 Rome

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

: Oltre

: 12 Oct 2007 - 31 Oct 2007

: 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)

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

: 21 Jul 2007 - 12 Aug 2007

: Il Frantoio, Capalbio, Grosseto, Italy

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

: D.I.O

: 15 Jun 2007 - 29 Jun 2007

: Artemisia Art Gallery, Montecarlo (Principato di Monaco)

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

: S.P.Q.R.

: 7 Feb 2007 - 23 Feb 2007

: Studio Gallery Mo.Ca, Rome

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

: V edition of International FotoFestiva Killing Paradise

: 18 May 2006 - 21 May 2006

: International FotoFestival - Lodz, Polonia

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

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

: 7 Apr 2006 - 30 Apr 2006

: 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)

: Istanti

: 13 May 2005 - 30 Jun 2005

: Studio Gallery Mo.Ca, Rome

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

: Cambialamore

: 30 Sep 2004 - 30 Oct 2004

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

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


 

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.