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Biography Donatella Marraoni began her magnificent journey into the world of art in ’95, when she attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Perugia, Italy graduating in 1998 with first class honors. In this same year she relocated to England where she lived for 5 years. She hence began to exhibit in Italy and abroad in prestigious private galleries and public places, immediately receiving important awards and the consensus of specialized critics. In March 2014 she received an award from the Director of the Selenograd Gallery in Russia and began to exhibit and sell her works worldwide. In her paintings, the woman is the central subject: protagonist in scenes of love, awaiting, passion, pain, abandonment, desire, perversion. Donatella defines her works born out of chaos, confusion and characterized by strong lines, quick, unfinished, scratchy. The artist seeks to evoke emotions, narrate situations and tell life stories using different means of communication and extremely varied between them such as oil, ink, pigments, glass, cement and coffee. “Her women talk about love and men … first of all of her father who enrolled her at the Academy and now, although he is no longer, he fully participates in her creations being her memories fixed on canvas by the use of cement. Her father… a mason… a man… the first whom understood, her first true supporter. To him, the works letters of coffee are dedicated where the artist tells of herself and intimately opens to him. Her first exhibition dates back to 1997 and since then until today numerous personal and collective exhibitions have followed in galleries and museums in Italy and abroad. Curriculum vitae 1996/97: Active collaboration at the staging of the Forma Urbis exhibition part of the Biennale of Gubbio, in February. April 1997: Group exhibition of engraving Atelier Gallery Perugia in April 1997 Group exhibition What’s there Atelier Gallery Perugia. September 1997: Degree in Painting, awarded on Sept. 23, 1997 at the Academy of Fine Arts Pietro Vannucci in Perugia with a score of 110 cum laude / 110. Thesis History of Art titled Light Matter in the Art of the XX Century. With Prof. Bruno Cora. August 1998: author of the work chosen to represent the manifesto at the Vinarelli ’98 festival for the fifteenth edition of Pro Loco Torgiano. Exhibitions and events: 2013 from July 12 to August 1, 2013: Meetings and visions – Collective – Spoleto Gallery Walter Tobagi – International Association for the Arts, Spoleto (PG), Italy. from September 6 to September 26, 2013: Art Without Borders – Collective – Spoleto Gallery Walter Tobagi , Spoleto (PG), Italy. from October 4 to October 26, 2013: Notre Art de Turin – Collective exhibition at The Over Evening Hall in Via Sabaudia Turin. Turin (TO), Italy. from 01 October to 30 October 2013: Visions of coffee – Personal – exhibition at Mercatanti, Foligno (PG), Italy. from November 30 to December 8, 2013: Florence Biennale, Ethics DNA of Art, Florence (FI), Italy. from December 6 to December 21, 2013: The path of the Goddess – Collective – An international festival of contemporary art in Latin Theatre d’Annunzio. Italy. December 8, 2013: Save the Children – Charity Auction, Bologna, Italy. from December 9, 2013 to January 11, 2014: Art for research FiorGen IX Ed., 2013. At the Archaeological Museum of Florence, Florence, Italy. 2014 January 11, 2014: Auction for charity FiorGen: Work Title: Sometimes It Seems so difficult. Florence, Italy. from February 12 to March 6, 2014: Collective – Russia at the Selenograd gallery, Moscow, Russia. 16 to 22 February 2014: ArteINsanremo – Group exhibition – Art Sanremo 2000 Sanremo, Italy. February 2014: House Auctions Caput Mundi, Rome, Italy. 24 to 27 February 2014 – Collective – In Fieri – Piazza del Popolo in Rome, Italy. from 13 March to 6 April 2014: Group exhibition at the Na Kascirche gallery, Moscow, Russia. 17 to 23 March 2014: Collective – Eliseo Theatre, Rome, Italy. from March 26 to April 9, 2014: Collective – at Domus Talenti – Rome, Italy. from 11 to 15 April 2014: Collective – Piazza del Popolo Rome (Augustinian), Rome, Italy. from 29 April to 4 May 2014: Collective – at the Teatro Nuovo, Milan, Italy. from 4 to 11 May 2014: Collective – The Belgaum Castel – Pavia (PV) Italy. June 5, 2014: EUREKA AWARD 6th edition – Via Tomacelli, 23, Rome, Italy End of June 2014: Exhibition at the Scuderia of Villa Borromeo in Arcore (MB), Italy July 2014: International Art Exhibition City of Gubbio 2014 – Diocesan Museum and St. Mary Church of the Laity – Gubbio (PG), Italy. July / August 2014: Collective – at the Rocca of Montefalco, Montefalco (PG), Italy. August 2014: International Art Exhibition City of Gubbio 2014 – Diocesan Museum and St. Mary Church of the Laity – Gubbio (PG), Italy. August 2014: Collective – Council Chamber, Gualdo Cattaneo (PG), Italy September 2014: Collective – Town Square, Panicale (PG), Italy. from 8 September 2014 to October 8, 2014: Collective – at the Rocca of Montefalco (PG), Italy. September 26 to 29 2014: Expo 2014 Art Festival of Spoleto (PG), Cloister of St. Nicholas by Prof. Sandro Trotti with director & critic Prof. Gianmarco Puntelli. from September 27 to October 5, 2014: Personal – Chianciano Terme, Tuscany, Italy. 1 to 5 October 2014: Collective – Permanent, Via Borgo Aretino, 11 / C, Assisi (PG), Italy. 4 to 10 September 2014: Collective – 5th Base, First Thursdays Gallery, London, UK November 28, 2014: Collective – New Theatre, International Prize – Gift of Humanity, Arcore (MB), Italy. from November 29 to December 15, 2014: Collective – At the Church of Bruno, Arcore (MB), Italy. from December 19, 2014 to 9 January 2015: Collective – at the Cloister of St. Augustine, Montefalco (PG), Italy. from 22 December 2014 to 6 January 2015: Collective – Exhibtion Center at Saint-Petersburg Union of Artists, St. Petersburg, Russia. 2015 January 16 to 24: Collective – at Contemporary Art Gallery IG-Gallery, Montmartre, Paris, France. 1 to 15 February 2015: Group exhibition – Art & Wine – at the Historic Cantine Buttafuoco, Canneto Pavese (PV), Italy. 15 to 28 February 2015: Minipersonale – Art & Wine – at the Historic Cantine Buttafuoco, Canneto Pavese (PV), Italy. 14 to 22 February 2015: Minipersonale – Hall Of the Vaults – Spello (PG), Italy. 8 to 15 March: Event Violated Identities – At the Civic Museums, Pesaro, Italy. 27 to 28 March 2015: Event Violated Identities – At the Council Chamber. Porto Sant’Elpidio, Italy. from March 27, 2015 (Standing): Minipersonale – Main street Bevagna, Bevagna (PG), Italy. 1-15 April 2015: Group exhibition – Art & Wine – at the Historic Cantine Buttafuoco, Canneto Pavese (PV), Italy. 11 to 12 April 2015: Event Violated Identities – at the Council Chamber, Aquino, Latina, Italy. from July 3 to August 3, 2015: Staff – At the Museum of Lace – Isola Maggiore, Lake Trasimeno (PG), Italy. from June 26 to July 12, 2015: Collective – 17 artists for 17 days – at the Literary Cafe at the Spoleto Festival of the 2 Worlds 4 July 2015: charity auction Capanne (PG) in extemporaneous painting. from 8 June to 25 July 2015: Collective – Benevento – at the Public Library. from July to September 15, 2015: Mini-personal at the Lace Museum – Isola Maggiore, Lake Trasimeno (PG), Umbria, Italy. August 20, 2015: Extemporaneous Vinarelli 2015 – Torgiano (PG), Umbria, Italy. from February to September permanent exhibition – Arbez Art Gallery, Corso Matteotti 96, Bevagna (PG), Umbria, Italy. 25 to 29 August 2015: Collective Violated Identities – Caesar Rivera Hall, Fibbioni Palace, Via San Bernardino – L’Aquila (AQ), Abruzzo, Italy. Presentation | Prof. Alberto D'Atanasio: If it is true that everything began with the spark of a goddess who transformed Chaos into Cosmos, that is to say the beauty which combines transcendence and immanence, then it is true to say that in Donatella Marraoni’s work there coexists a part of that spark which is the essence, the beginning and the continuation of her research. Each of her images is an ode to that femininity which mirrors Gaia, Gaea, Demeter, Cybele, Proserpine, Aphrodite. Each work of Donatella Marraoni is fixed on a support, which has the flavor of the type of surfaces levigated by wind and rain, the image of a warning bell which still rings in time, but that a patriarchal misogynist and masculinist mentality have hidden, muffled until making it silent. This is why her paintings, whilst being an example of specific knowledge of the techniques and restitution aesthetics of a work, are a real warning for the time in which man now lives and to the way he has been reduced to live. So it is then that her mottled surfaces and her beautiful women, from their assorted and thoughtful expressions, are genuine pleas to those archetypes that one should rediscover, meditated with the intention of involving the story of modern man. She uses cement as a support, but what is cement yet water and land which taking on form and new creation? What is the opera of Donatella Marraoni if not a return to the archetype of the feminine and allowing this to become a warning sign in the immanent present. The paintings by Donatella Marraoni are not only example of an artist who studied art and who inhaled the historicity of how to make an image, rather they are songs, short stories, tales and fables which surpass the emptiness of certain politics and certain economies. Her works are images from the imagination, dare I say shamanic ones, intended to be a warning for those whom still desire beauty and in the end they reunite the female transcendence which with a spark of the Feminine allowed Chaos to become Cosmos. Alberto D'Atanasio “Hecce mulier" - Fabrizio Tiburzi In her work, the great sensuality of the female body captures the viewer in its much deeper charm of the inner journey of every woman, in the vortex of emotions of the flow of a life forever in search of a deep, true and solid relationship, in which to believe, a joint journey and routine although no less heroic; the desire for completeness - in her different works whispered, spoken, shouted, suffocated, appreciated – does not prevent the immediate, necessary, conquered force to assert its extraordinary yearning to be there. It is the story of a woman holding on to her own equilibrium, a woman as she would like to be and as she is, between mind and body, between me and you, between past and future, between escape and prison, between dream and reality, and as a woman, mother and wife; but a human being whose inner torment is not torn and which immediately gives way to the features and decisive colors, the glinting gaze, that does not succumb, that does not complain, that always gets back up again. Cement, indeterminacy, isolation and a certain detachment that often protect her, are not the missing confession of the inherent fragility of the human being who seeks the completeness in her relationship, but rather an appeal - seemingly contradictory, as not rare it is in the code of communication of the female and human - to want to overcome those defenses and want to get into loving dialogue with her higher universe and her generous passion. The work stands as an invitation of acute sensitivity to contemplate the beauty and difficulty of living and to survive, to understand and to be understood, that every woman, even in this time when everything changes, heroically sustains. In protected hope to be able to share it. A work that almost seems to be saying: "Hecce mulier". Fabrizio Tiburzi Donatella Marraoni between "Aesthetics and Ethics" - Paolo Massei I like to think that it is the closet of her memories, in that childhood room full of images of dreams and photographs, that Donatella Marraoni explores to find the figures which today represent her work in Art. Figures to which she entrusts her image not only in an aesthetic aspect, but also in symbolic poses which often support their face or body in a balance between the image, which she uses with scrupulous attention by putting it at the forefront with her aptitude to communicate aesthetics, and her astonishing ability to arrange the movements of form through a past, not in the classic sense of the figure, but being able to communicate it through the contemporary ethics of her credo. It is in this duality that Donatella Marraoni strides forth, making use of images to develop a primal disinformation of aesthetics, that is on the canvas, so as to be able to provoke in the viewer a reflection and new thinking beyond the initial capacity of the organ of sight, giving us the opportunity to investigate her work by placing it in communication with our auditory and visual processes, thus donating the work a new communication. So the artist through her project (Work of Art) allows us to hear the sound and the language of her belief relying also on a social commitment in the observation of her work, in a both auditory and visual process that will transform our consciousness and our way of thinking in Art. For this reason the artist, Marraoni, is not interested in obtaining a beautiful "Work of Art", but instead the power of communication of the image produced through it in a combination of aesthetics and ethics, which are not mutually exclusive, but instead forge together in a powerful dogma for the artist where, not only for she who creates the work, but also for those who benefit from it, have a duty to contribute to the realization of creativity in our contemporary society. Hence it is from the first contact with the canvas that the artist addresses her theme of technique not with the classic method, in fact privileging herself with the freedom to use materials such as cement, handling it in a plastic manner and allowing her to build the base on which she develops, through aesthetic variations (nudes, bicycles, letters), the figurative and symbolic gestures creating images which form the symbolic vocabulary of ethics and which reflect her personal thought on Art. Paolo Massei