Laura Bottaro was born in Vicenza, Italy, December 19th 1958. She got her Master in Painting in Venice ,Accademia di Belle Arti , in 1986, having Emilio Vedova as a teacher. She now lives and works in Vicenza, keeping contact with European Culture, and especially with Germany where she started her art exhibitions.
Painting is for me a journey beyond the boundaries of space and time.
Through it , I look into my consciousness; but this deep introspection is not a one way...like a mirror that would also reflect the mood of the world, the reality that surrounds us. A close alliance, visceral, between vision and emotion, it comes from the capture of signals, tracks , messages, from around us...from what the "new" produces in our thoughts, our actions and words...this to understand who I am, naked in the mirror, but also with humility and poetry, to raise awareness through signs-colours-forms, of the human heart.
Regardless of the future of art, painting and its expressive power through signs and colours will always be essential to the creative process and the evolutionary expansion of the consciousness of man not only as a trace of it, but also as a possible gateway to the infinite, which makes us feel together as free beings and conscious of our real essence. …Read More
MAJOR EXIBITION
1987 Milano "In corso artistico" Ipotesi di opere per l'arte pubblica. Mostra di scultura con il patrocinio dell'Assessorato alla Cultura di Milano
1990 Berlin "PK. Berlin" - Arbeiten auf papier
1990 Hannover "Zet Galerie" Ohne Titel '90
1991 Berlin. "Galerie Frankenstein" Frauen und Landschafen
1991 Berlin "Christhl Hofmann" - Ohne Titel '91
1992 Treviso "Galleria Sintesi" Anatomie della Coscienza
1993 Noventa "Villa Barbarigo" - "Innenschau" (Guardarsi dentro)
1993 Vicenza “Libreria Galleria Due Ruote” - "Piccoli lavori su carta"
1993 Bari “Museo Nuova Era” - "E NATURA"
1995 Genova Galleria d'Arte “Orti Sauli” “Laura Bottaro”
1996 Carmignano di Brenta (PD)“Villa Municipale Corniani” "Tra Terra e Cielo" - opere pittonche e scultoree - A. Bergozza - L. Bottaro -
R. Lanaro
2007 Bassano del Grappa "Cenere di Rose" Testimonianza per il popolo
Armeno
2007 Vicenza “Spazio Art Castello” - "Colore e Rito del Dettaglio" -
2007 Paris “Cafè la Commedia” Acquarelli –
2009 Bergamo “Museo Cividini” “Capre di Tecla” donation
2009 27° Rassegna internazionale dell’acqua Città di Campagna Salerno collettiva
2010 Barcellona “ Davis Lisboa Mini-Museum of contemporary art”donation
2010 Vicenza “ Palazzo Braga Valmarana” “Premio Afrodite” collettiva
2010 Roma “ News artists in rome” collettiva
2010 ottobre Galleria San Vidal Venezia –collettiva
2010 novembre – Museo Alatri – Frosinone – collettiva
2010/2011 dic./gennaio –Atahotel- Varese - personale
2011 novembre “Galleria Valmarana – Palazzo Braga” Vicenza
Writing about her
Salvatore Maugeri Toto Cacciato
Manlio Onorato Diego Ferrarin
Renata Bocchese Carla Chiara
Frigo
Lia De Venere Viana Conti
Stefano Pillon Gianluigi Coltri
Paolo Botton Beppino Zocca
Marica Rossi Salvatore Russo
Antonella Iozzo Giacomo Garzya
Tiziana Aliffi
I studied with Emilio Vedova, but my real inspiration comes from the Oriental Philosophy and some other artists I loved, like Giacometti, WOLS and Hans Hartung.
Collettiva Museo civico di Alatri dal 6 novembre al 7 gennaio 2011
Personale all'Atahotel di Varese dal 1 dicembre al 7 gennaio 2011
Personale Galleria Palazzo Braga Vicenza marzo/aprile 2011