GABRIELLA FABBRI - Italy -

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MICROCOSMS "Of the black square"

Tragic Dance of Life

mixed technique cm 120 X 120

mixed media 90 x 90 cm

MICROCOSMS "Of the black square"

mixed media cm 60 X 420

mixed media

MICROCOSMS "Of the black square"

MICROCOSMS "Fragments"

mixed media 60 x 90 cm

mixed media 80 x 100 cm

Conversation

MICROCOSMI "Sequences"

Installation

mixed media 160 x 192 cm installation

Ecce....Monstrum

Meeting

Installation

MICROCOSMS "Fragments"

mixed media cm 50 x 70

mixed media 80 x 100 cm

HER BIOGRAPHY

Gabriella Fabbri was born in Teramo to a family of writers and artists: her grandfather Giovanni was a writer and publisher in Teramo between the late nineteenth century and 1938, the year the publishing house closed, which boasted the publication of numerous works by Abruzzese writers and a newspaper, “L’Italia Centrale”; her father Pasquale was an extremely versatile man: writer (winner in 1962 of the Teramo Prize, Abruzzo section), painter, sculptor, set designer, a fine connoisseur of Abruzzese history and art, he participated actively in the cultural and artistic life of the city until his untimely death in 1966.

In this climate of great artistic and cultural stimulation, Gabriella developed from an early age a keen interest in drawing and painting, which she cultivated as a self-taught artist, having attended the Classical High School and graduated in Literature from the University of Chieti with a thesis on “Popular Themes in the Art of Teramo.”
Winner of a competition for the subject of Art History, she taught it until the 2005/06 school year in various secondary schools in Abruzzo and Teramo.

In 1974, at the suggestion of painter Alberto Chiarini, she participated for the first time in a plein air event in Cerqueto di Fano Adriano, winning a prize. Thus began her artistic career (as can be seen from the attached curriculum): the first period in the seventies can be defined as the “green period,” in which the artist depicted synthetic landscapes with a predominance of green.
In the eighties, the “blue period” began: the landscape became a reflection on the relationship between shadow and light and a reason for surrealist expression of reality. This resulted in a solo exhibition in 1987 entitled “Beyond the Light,” held in Teramo in what is now a small permanent gallery: “Spazio 7 – Gabriella Fabbri,” at Via Filippi Pepe, 24.
Starting in 1994, the period of “vivid chromaticism” began, in which the palette became much richer with the inclusion of all colors; the focus was on the theme of the sphere, which became a metaphor for the ideal world, leading to her second solo exhibition entitled “Conversation,” first shown in Rome in 2000 at the “Palazzo Margutta” Gallery in Via Margutta and recently (September, October 2007) in Pescara at the Maison des Arts of the Pescara Abruzzo Foundation and in Teramo at the “C.Gambacorta” hall of the Banca di Teramo in December 2007 and January 2008.
The exhibition also featured the first installation created by the artist, a conversation with Piero della Francesca, to which three more were added in the following years: “Incontro,” “Ecce…monstrum,” “La denuncia degli occhi,” exhibited at various events.
Since 2000, her artistic activity has become much more intense with group exhibitions both in Italy and abroad, an activity that has been the subject of several solo shows, given that it is carried out on diverse themes and expressive modes.
Of interest is her approach to informal painting, which is evident in the cycle “Crossing Time,” in which the artist, inspired by the flow of time through the passing of the seasons perceived chromatically, frees herself from the compositional rigor of the previous period, creating sixty compositions free from any conceptual message and compositional scheme.
Through this experience, together with her interest in color, the dominant theme of her research, she arrived at the cycle “Cosmic Games,” which deals with the theme of energy in the Macrocosm and Microcosms, focusing on the relationships between these two dimensions and highlighting numerous conceptual cues.
A section of these themes, entitled “Microcosms - Of the Black Square,” was presented in her solo exhibition at Palazzo Cerulli in May and June 2008; a second section of the microcosms, entitled “Sequences,” was exhibited from October 29 to November 30, 2009, in the Auditorium of the Music High School, former Church of Santa Maria a Bitetto, in Via Stazio, curated by the “Primo Riccitelli” Concert Society.
During her artistic career, Gabriella Fabbri has received several awards and recognitions: from the first plein air events of the seventies, to competitions in the eighties, up to the most recent successes in the second and fourth “Giovan Battista Moroni” trophy in Bergamo in 2005 and 2007, in competitions organized by the “Accademia Internazionale Il Convivio” in Giardini Naxos in 2004, 2005, up to the prizes won in Messina in 2005 and 2006 in the first and second international competition named after “Filippo Juvara.”
Recently, she received the 2009 Woman Award for painting from the Federcasalinghe Association of the city of Teramo and placed third in the International Prize for Art and Culture “Ettore Petrolini” organized by the International Academy Partenopea “Federico II.”

Teramo, April 15, 2010

HER CURRICULUM

Artistic activity (painter, self-taught sculptor)
April 10-30, 2010 “International Italy Art 2010” Turin
April 10-22, 2010 “City of New York Award” Gallery “Il Tempio” Palermo
November 10-23, 2009 “Art in Mind” Brik Lane Gallery London
November 7 - 30, 2009 “Mysterious Venice” Art&Fort Lab Venice
November 5 – December 5, 2009 “Lighthouses in the city” Photographic exhibition Aci Gallery Turin
October 29 – November 28, 2009 “Microcosms – Sequences” Auditorium Higher Institute of Musical Studies (former church of Santa Maria a Bitetto) Teramo (Solo exhibition)
August 9 - September 9, 2009 “Art to the stars” Casa Tani Center Rovereto
June 20 - July 20, 2009 “Twenty by twenty” Linea d’Arte Officina Creativa Naples
March 21, 2009 “Microcosms Selection” Women’s Award Provincial Palace Teramo (awarded)
August 3 – 6, 2008 “Montone between the sun and the moon” Montone (TE)
July 27 – August 10, 2008 “Ripattoni in art” Bellantarte Association Ripattoni (TE)
May 30 – June 14, 2008 “Microcosms” Cerulli Palace Teramo (Solo exhibition)
December 21, 2007 – January 26, 2008 “Conversation” C.Gambacorta Room Bank of Teramo – Teramo Solo exhibition
September 24 – October 5, 2007 . “Conversation” Pescarabruzzo Foundation Accademia d’Abruzzo Pescara Solo exhibition
July 28 – August 12, 2007 “Ripatton in art” Bellantarte Association Ripattoni (TE)
June 16-30, 2007 “June Collective” New Artemisia Gallery . Bergamo
June 2-15, 2007 “From the land of toys… to Neverland” Ass. “Il Laboratorio” Teramo
February 9-16, 2007 “Art at San Valentino” – Bellantarte Association - Bellante
January 12-15, 2007 “Bergamo Art Fair” - Bergamo
October 15-22, 2006 “Between dream and reality” – New Artemisia Gallery - Bergamo
August 1-15, 2006 “ Ripattoninarte” - Ripattoni (TE)
June 18-25, 2005 “Filippo Juvara Award” Hall of Mirrors – Messina (awarded)
May 22-27, 2006 “Vern’aprile 2006” Fratellanza Artigiana - Teramo
March 12-13, 2006 “From art to art” – Sala Delfico – Teramo
December 10-15, 2005 “Contemporary Art Biennale” - Agrigento
October 16-23, 2005 “The sphere and its world” New Artemisia Gallery- Bergamo
October 16, 2005 – “Il Convivio” Award – Giardini Naxos (ME) (mentioned)
April 9-17, 2005 “Filippo Juvara Award” Hall of Mirrors Provincial Palace – Messina (awarded)

December 15-26, 2004 “Biennial of the Arts of the Unity of Italy” – Royal Palace of Caserta
November 11-15, 2004 “Art Fair”– Padua
October 17, 2004 – “Il Convivio” Award – Giardini Naxos (ME) (awarded)
August 3-8, 2004 “Montone between the sun and the moon” – Montone (TE)
June 12-30, 2004 “Lights Colours and Forms of the III Millennium” Pomona University – Los Angeles – California U.S.A.
June 2-5, 2004 “The hundred painters of Via Toledo” Umberto I Gallery - Naples
June 2004 “Myths, legends and…” Genovesi Studio – Association “Il Laboratorio” – Teramo
December 2003 “Itala arte 2” Cultural Association – Modena
October 2003 “Itala arte” Cultural Association – Rome
August 3-8, 2003 “Montone between the sun and the moon” – Montone (TE)
May 31-June 3, 2003 “The hundred painters of Via Toledo” Umberto I Gallery - Naples
May 2003 “Sign in the dream” Genovesi Studio Association “Il Laboratorio” – Teramo
May 2003 “Re di Roma Exhibition” Piazza della Repubblica – Rome
December 2002 “Priamarte” Priamar Fortress” Savona
November 2002 “Astrart “ Fourth International Biennial Valentini Palace – Rome
October 2002 “Teachers of the Art School” Municipal Exhibition Hall – Teramo
September 2002 “Five artists at Villa Norcenni” Figline Valdarno (FI)
June 2002 “Spring Award” Hall of Angels Barberini Palace – Rome
April 2002 “Eco Style” Roof Garden Exhibition Palace – Rome
April 2002 “The golden gladiator” “Forum Interart” Gallery – Rome
March 2002 “Plastic movements” “Forum Interart” Gallery – Rome
February 2002 “Fourth Biennial of Contemporary Art” Bramante Halls – Rome
December 2001 “An artist for peace” – L’Aquila
August 3-8, 2001 “Montone between the sun and the moon” – Montone (TE)
July 2001 “Column’ art” – Colonnella (TE)
June 2001 “Rome in bloom” Church of Santa Rita - Rome
May 2001 “Spring Award” “L’Angelo azzurro” Gallery – Rome “Gilda Arte”- Rome “Chagall” Gallery – Tivoli
February 2001 “Astrart” Ottaviani Gallery – Rome
October 2000 “An artist in the courtyard” Art Gallery – Rome
June 2000 “Second International Painting Biennial Filippo Salesi” – Sanremo
May 2000 “Spring Award” “L’Angelo azzurro” Gallery – Rome
May 2000 “Third Biennial of Contemporary Art” Bramante Halls – Rome
April 2000 “Conversation” Solo exhibition “Palazzo Margotta” Gallery – Rome
August 1994 “Homage to Gran Sasso” – Pietracamela (TE)
March 1994 “La Telaccia” Gallery – Turin (awarded)
October 1992 Archaeological Museum – Teramo
November 1991 “Simone Weil” Cloister of San Domenico – Teramo
August 1990 Collective exhibition – Martinsicuro (TE) (awarded)
May 1990 “The golden brush” – Sulmona (AQ)
September 1989 Collective exhibition – Alanno (PE)
May 1998 “Spring of Val Pescara” – Alanno (PE) (awarded)
April 1987 “Beyond the light” Solo exhibition – Teramo
August 1986 Ex-tempore – Teramo (awarded)
August 1986 Ex-tempore – Torricella Sicura (TE)
August 1986 Ex-tempore – Campli (awarded)
July 1986 Collective exhibition Villa Comunale - Roseto degli Abruzzi
August 1985 Ex-tempore – Martinsicuro (TE)
April 1985 Ex-tempore – Alanno (PE) (awarded)
September 1984 Ex-tempore – Teramo (awarded)
August 1984 Ex-tempore – Civitella del Tronto (TE)
August 1984 Ex-tempore Martinsicuro (TE)
May 1984 Ex-tempore Alanno (PE) (awarded)
April 1984 International Award “Villa Alessandra” – Alanno (PE) (awarded)
August 1982 Ex-tempore – Teramo (awarded)
August 1981 Ex-tempore – Teramo (awarded)
July 1976 Ex-tempore Martinsicuro (TE)
July 1975 Ex-tempore Martinsicuro (TE)
September 1974 Ex-tempore Alba Adriatica (TE) (awarded)
July 1974 Ex-tempore Montefiopre sull’Aso (AP)
July 1974 EX-tempore Martinsicuro (TE) (awarded)
July 1974 Ex-tempore Cerqueto di Fano Adriano (TE) (awarded)

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