ORIA (ORIA STROBINO) - Italy

CONTACT: info@oriastrobino.it
WEBSITE: www.oriastrobino.it

Nostalgic vibes

The glass half full..

graphite and enamels on panel cm 75 x 90 € 2,000

oil, scagliola and jute on board cm 40 x 20 cm 40 x 20 € 450

Transparencies

oil and plastic gesso on board 40 x 40 cm € 400

Modesty

pastel on canvas board 50 x 70 cm € 800

Street

Freedom

oil and plastic gesso on board cm 80 x 30 80 x 30 € 1000

oil and plastic gesso on board cm 80 x 30 80 x 30 € 1,000

Her Biography

My name is Piera Oria Strobino, known as ORIA, I was born in Cossato (Biella) and I live in Cesena.

I am self-taught, so to the question: "When did you start painting?" I should answer that perhaps I was born with colors in my hands...!

My passion for art has always supported me.

I have experimented with curiosity and passion with various techniques and this search of mine is always ongoing.

Among my favorite subjects are nature, the human figure, faces, especially female ones.

In 2008 I completed a very demanding work, which lasted more than two years and resulted in personal traveling exhibitions and the publication of a book that collects the paintings and the historical research of emerging figures in the female world.

The exhibition and the book Being Woman, which includes 40 paintings and related texts, is in fact an excursus on the condition of women through the centuries, with moments of reflection that go beyond ideologies, religion and conventions, but which aims to focus attention on the social role and the peaks of excellence reached by women in 2000 years of known history. The exhibition is intended as a tribute to women of value, as well as to the ability, tenacity and willpower of women that have allowed these important figures to achieve a conscious and recognized role.

The Critique

The women of Oria Strobino

From Corriere Romagna of October 15, 2008

The exhibition entitled “Being Woman” is the result of over two years of work between historical research and

artistic execution, since Oria intended to create a chronological excursus, from prehistory to the present day,

on the condition of women, through figurative scenes and portrait supports combined with explanatory texts

on the biography of the women depicted or on historical data relating to the figurative elaboration.

The whole thing is configured as a fresco of the evolution of the condition of women through the centuries.

The exhibition is documented in the homonymous catalog, a real book published by the publishing company

“Il Ponte Vecchio” of Cesena, edited by Melita Vicini Mantero, which presents the works with the

related sheets.

From the very first approach, the painter's graphic skills stand out, as she successfully tackles the difficult

technique of portrait and nude and shows that she knows how to adapt each of her creations to the historical moment

described, from the ideal mythological composition of Gea, with a distinctly fairytale flavor, to those marked

by the typical languages of various civilizations, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Aryan, medieval, up to the portraits of

great women who marked the twentieth century, such as Indira Gandhi, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Rita

Levi Montalcini.

The exhibition ends with three paintings: the first two address the problem of violence against women, while

the last, illustrated by the related sheet entitled “Angel or demon?”, prompts reflection.

ODETTE GELOSI

The Curriculum

2014 Contemporary Art Fair of Forlì
Group Exhibition Passaggi Reale-Surreale Art-Expertise, Merlino Bottega d’Arte Florence
White Night in Corchiano
Two-person show “Parnassos Le cantiche spirituali” Galleria Rinascenza Contemporanea PE

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