20th april 2024 – 15th june 2024
In her first solo exhibition entitled “Becoming” Erica Conti shows both paintings and drawings, a personal research narrated throughout the body image. The human body, a symbol that contains a double vision, the coexistence of interiority and exteriority, of carnality and spirituality. The artist describes it as a recovered heaven, an elsewhere that we might immediately identify because it is situated just beyond our skin folds. The first step of “Becoming” is the knowledge of what is happening inside us. In Conti’s artworks there is a profound narration, that might be difficult to be understood instantly. The painting discloses to the public through a slow rhythm, embracing the spectator’s questions. “The main meaning and target of the exhibition are to encourage questions from the observer, each question produces a tingling, stirring the numb inclination to the realization of his own authenticity. This is how “Becoming” arises”. Colors, mainly warm shades, derived from earth powders, recall the primitive human being and his carnality. The use of lights that concerns shadows and transparencies leads the spectator to a vision of the deep, a spiritual and poetry vision that persuades him not to stop in front of an exclusively figurative representation. Conti’s art refers to classic art movement evoking Renaissance poses and features. The artist’s inspiration is also based on the historical period she lives in and she expresses throughout a contemporary language that seeks to be timeless.
BIOGRAPHY
Erica Conti – Erì – is a painter born in 1991 in the province of Bologna. She attends the Art Institute in Ravenna where she develops a conflictual relationship with art, this causes her to be estranged for ten years. She returns to approach drawing and painting only in 2016, and in a few years it becomes her professional path. Today she lives and works as a painter near Cesena, here she also teaches “drawing” at the Romagna Academy.
EXHIBITIONS
2023/24 – Marche Prize, “Under Raffaello”, Urbino (PU) curated by Camillo Langone.
2023/24 – collective exhibition “Dell’umana dimensione, arti e visioni contemporanee lungo la via Emilia”, Palazzo Ducale, Pavullo (MO) curated by Simona Negrini, Alessandro Mescoli, Ricognizioni sull’arte.
2023 – finalist’s collective exhibition Mestre Prize of painting, Centro Culturale Candiani, Mestre (VE)
2022 – collective exhibition “Profili”, SAC – Spazio Arte Contemporanea, Milano, curated by di Nicoletta Candiani
2022 – collective exhibition Art Prize Pallavicini, Palazzo Pallavicni, Bologna, curated by Francesca Bogliolo and Claudia Andreotta
2022 – collective exhibition “Ritratti Sociali”, Museo Luigi Tonini, Rimini, curated by Sonia Patrocino
2022 – urban installation, Parco AUSA Rimini, curated by EcoMuseo
2022 – collective exhibition INSTABiffiArte, Galleria Biffi Arte, Piacenza, curated by Stefano Gazzola, Carlo Scagnelli and Susanna Gualazzini
2022 – digital project “INSTABiffiArte”, Galleria Biffi Arte, Piacenza, curated by Stefano Gazzola
2022 – collective exhibition “Tre linguaggi femminili in arte”, Palazzo dei Priori, Volterra, curated by Karen Lojelo
2022 – collective exhibition “la bellezza salverà il mondo” LojeloArtGallery, Volterra