About Raffaella Bertolini
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Education
1987 - 1992
Liceo Artistico " Arturo Martini", Savona, Italy
Awards
2014
" V Gran Premio City of Savona"
category on the online competition " V Gran Premio Citta' di Savona
Organized by " Movimento Arte del XXI Secolo"
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Event: " Rare Art"
Dates: 14 Apr 2015 - 18 Apr 2015
Exhibit Here is an Online Art Gallery and Curator of Pop-Up Exhibitions across London. Exhibit Here was Founded by Fine Artist Leila Bibizadeh in 2013.
'Rare Art' will bring together the most innovative and thought provoking pieces by established and emerging contemporary Artists.
This exhibition is in memory of Margaret West 1953 - 2014.
Event: Flux Exhibition
Dates: 18 Feb 2015 - 22 Feb 2015
Gray's Art Gallery presents the new event for contemporary art FLUX exhibition at The Rag Factory London displaying work by the very best emerging and mid career contemporary artists just off Brick Lane. FLUX will be a visual feast of performance, live graffiti, sculpture and art. Many of the artists exhibiting will be at FLUX on the 18th of February to talk about their art. Come and meet them and enjoy a night with a few complimentary drinks.
All artwork at FLUX will be available for sale.
Meet the artists and drinks is available on the 18th only, exhibition will however run until the 22nd and will be open from 11am until 6pm on Friday -Saturday, Thursday we will be open until 8pm and Sunday from 10am until 3pm
Event: 59 Artworks
Dates: 5 Nov 2014 - 19 Nov 2014
One of my painting has been selected for this exhibition.
"Exhibit Here in conjunction with Moderna Art, are pleased to announce that we are going back to 59 London Wall for a second time this year! Exhibit Here is super excited to give you another chance to exhibit your work right in the heart of London's financial district, in a former bank, located on a busy bustling street just five minutes from Liverpool Street Station!"
Event: Movement: Arworks Summer Exibition
Dates: 4 Jul 2014 - 3 Aug 2014
Movement: Artworks presents the their summer exhibition featuring local and international artists who will be exhibiting a high quality, eclectic range of artworks.
Event: " Music Icons "
Dates: 23 May 2014 - 23 May 2014
Part of Raffaella Bertolini Artist's art exhibition coming to Vinyl in May on music icons.
Exibition/party with live music.
7 to 11pm
Event: The London coffee Festival
Dates: 3 Apr 2014 - 6 Apr 2014
My Painting for the Coffee Art Project has been chosen among the best 40 and it will be now on display at the "London coffee Festival" , where on Siunday the 6th od April, the winner and 5 shortlisted will be announced.
Event: The Coffee Art Project
Dates: 22 Mar 2014 - 30 Mar 2014
I am currently working on a painting to be showcased at the coffee art project exhibition in March.
The Coffee Art Project is a high profile art competition linked to the theme of coffee and is one of the core initiatives of UK Coffee Week.
The ultimate objective of this programme, is to raise valuable funds for and awareness of Project Waterfall, which supports clean water and sanitation initiatives, this year in the Mbulu District in Tanzania, in partnership with WaterAid charity.
Submitted works will be displayed at a pop-up exhibition/gallery and cafe venue in London and at the London Coffee Festival at the Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane on April 2014, where winners will be announced.
Event: Vanity Unfair
Dates: 19 Mar 2014 - 29 Mar 2014
Art Café London is pleased to announce Vanity Unfair, an art exhibition showcasing 30 Italian artists and their interpretation of vanity for March 2014.
On the wave of the success obtained in Italy, Art Café London brings this international event to London in the striking neoclassical venue of the Crypt Galley in St Pancras.
Vanity Unfair wants to represent the vanity in all its shapes and contradictions, investigating from its iconic to its social ambivalence. Considered as a form of self-idolatry and an intense belief in yourself that valorises the best you, and from which none of us can be told to be immune, vanity represents the engine of our actions, our attitudes, or an unconscious demand for self and social recognition. This immodest Narcissus silently inhabiting our souls makes us also deeply annoyed by the others vanity or even presumption of being able to play an unfairly game, for which the rules are only applied to others and not to ourselves.
In this edition of the International Exhibition of Contemporary Art with the motto "When the material regenerated itself like art", we would like to give our winning artists of the Italian edition the new task of interpreting and vanity using their creativity and sensitivity to unravel all its ambiguity in the contemporary society.
Through expression, meaning, and the use of all types of material Vanity Unfair wants to amuse its public with a variegated selection of art, painting, photos, installations, and music performances exalting the different artists' connotations of vanity.
Despite Vanity may be an unfair companion, Art Café London will fairly host Desperate Artwives contributing to their social purposes, and Greo Photo with his special performance Vanity Chair Experience, involving the spectator for an unconventional experience.
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Biography
UK-based artist Raffaella Bertolini employs a variety of media and forms, working with acrylics, graphite, oils, charcoal, spray paint and collage.
Originally from Italy, Raffaella received her diploma in Art from the Liceo Artistico Arturo Martini in Savona. Her main influences are derived from popular and urban culture, fashion, art, music and literature, along with environmental and political issues. In her portraiture, she blends a (literally!) colourful humour with Psychedelic Art to create her own brand of “Psychedelic Pop Art”, focusing primarily on the female figure. A large number of her “Icons” portraits use alcohol ink. In these works, she celebrates not only the famous but also hidden heroes, such as members of the London Underground scene, unearthed in her recent artwork.
A Mondrian-style background complements that approach in one of her latest series of paintings, which takes on the popular French icons Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin and Brigitte Bardot – each, in their own way, representing ‘La Femme’.
Refusing to limit her work, Raffaella is a storyteller who finds inspiration in a variety of artistic expressions, fed by her lifelong passion and ambition for creative expression. She incorporates elements of her various muses, which lately come from urban/street art. In her urban and mixed-media paintings, as well as in her beautifully detailed drawings, she explores themes of sensuality, humour, religion, and mental health.
Raffaella’s artwork has been regularly showcased in exhibitions in the UK and New York, and the breadth and versatility of her talents have been increasingly recognized. Her exceptional painting Re-Veiled was the runner-up among 40 participants in the online competition “V Gran Premio Citta’ – a prize organized by the Savona art movement, the “Movimento Arte del XXI Secolo”, to recognize excellence in contemporary art expression.
Raffaella Bertolini’s works are in many private collections in Europe, Australia, USA and Japan.
