Samantha Torrisi

Samantha Torrisi


About

She was born in Catania in 1977.
She lives and works in Catania (Sicily), Italy.

Her search is mainly about the contamination between various (different) kinds of expressive and communicative media. Her pictures represent images of metropolitan life caught and fixed as some frames. In fact, in her works (all oil-paintings), she portrays images previously seen through the lens of a camera or seen in a film, in a video clip or in any other digital shots. All her paintings are dominated by few colours. Through this limited choice of colours and creating vivid light and shade effects, she attempts to give the viewers an existential vision of man who is always getting away, seeking after and changing. The attitudes of bodies, plunged in a contrast of lights and shades, suggest a wandering state, nearly a removing from an alienating condition, people with their own distress and uneasiness. Spaces which seem to be beyond the physical realities, anonymous characters who reflect the most aberrant aspects of modern life.

Samantha Torrisi tells about not explose moments of metropolitan life
(Giuseppe Frazzetto from: Collection of Contemporary Art for Castle of Aci. Young Artists Museum. Ed. Mazzotta, Milano 2001)
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Location
Catania, Italy
Website
http://www.samanthatorrisi.it
Education
She aftented the Higher Secondary School of Art and got the Diploma in 1996. In 2002, she obtained a Qualification, with full marks, in Painting, from the Academy of Fine Arts of Catania and she had the right to publish her graduation thesis about Changes and Contaminations of the Image in the Contemporary Society.

Solo Exhibitions

2008 "An Invisible Journey" curator Stefano Elena, other texts by Giacomo Leone, Giuseppe Frazzetto, Davide Sapienza Galleria L'Arte Club, Catania.
2003 "Crossings" curator Giuseppe Frazzetto Galleria LArte Club, Catania.
2002 "Breakfast in Gallery" curator Giuseppe Frazzetto Galleria LArte Club, Catania.


Selected Group Exhibitions

2010 "De lo que llamamos Paz" curator Lus Athouguia Galeria Municipal. Sintra, PORTUGAL.
2009 "Un'altra parola, un altro sguardo" curators Lia Rocco, Amici della Pittura Siciliana dell'Ottocento Fabbriche Chiaramontane, Agrigento.
2007 "Premio Celeste" curator Gianluca Marziani San Gimignano (SI).
2006 "OpenArt" curator Gianluca Morabito Sale del Bramante PIazza del Popolo, Rome.
"A Mare l'Arte" - young contemporary artists curator Alessandra Menesini (promoter: www.fondazionebartolifelter.it) Lazzaretto Cultural Centre, Cagliari.
"The Aurora Signals. New Catania artistic generation" curator Angelo Scandurra Modern Art Gallery Le Ciminiere, Catania.
2005 "Mario Razzano Prize for young artists, 2nd edition" curator Antonio Petrilli, promoter: Ass. Cult. Proposta Museo del Sannio, Rocca dei Rettori, Benevento.
"Premio Celeste" curator Gianluca Marziani San Gimignano (SI).
"First International Art Biennal (Grameen) Microcredito Turchia 2005" curator Nursen Gngr Hankara, TURKIYE.
2004 Selected works for the catalogue "Italian Artists Annual 2004", Three Wise Owls Art & Publishing, Singapore.
"Tracce (Outlines). Art work's fragmentary intervention, scattering and regeneration inside room 312, memorandum for Pierre". By Gianni Ottaviani (group artwork) MIART 2004, Milano Spazio12 art exhibition, Milano Spazio Venieri, Grottammare (AP) Portico dei Magi, Ancona.
2003 "Interlinea Doppia #2" curators Natale Platania, Giuseppe Condorelli Castello Normanno, Motta S. Anastasia (CT) "8 x lottomarzo" curators Natale Platania, Giuseppe Condorelli Castello Normanno, Motta S. Anastasia (CT).
"Cosmos Jonica XI Biennal Exhibition of Europe and Mediterranean Young Artists ATENE 2003" curator Rosa Anna Musumeci GAI Ex Falegnameria Comunale, Catania.
2002 Permanent Exposition "Young Artists Museum" Castello Normanno, Acicastello (CT).
"Notturno in Galleria" curator Giuseppe Frazzetto Galleria LArte Club, Catania.
2001 "Breakfast in Gallery", young artists day curator Giuseppe Frazzetto Galleria LArte Club, Catania.
"Prima Parete in Concerto", 4th edition Ex Monastero dei Benedettini, Catania.
"Jam 2" curator Giuseppe Frazzetto Centro Voltaire, Catania; Centro Luigi Di Sarro, Roma.
"Nove/Nine" Ex Falegnameria Comunale, Catania.
"Siracusa for UNICEF. International Engraving Festival, A. Tantillo Prize" curator Mario Cuc Cripta del Collegio, Siracusa.
"Caos and Comunication. Catania-Sarajevo 2001" Biennial Exhibition of Europe and Mediterranean Young Artists curator Lucilla Brancato, Ambra Stazzone GAI Ex Falegnameria Comunale, Catania.
2000 "Image/Images Sicilian visions of the New Millennium", curator Carmelo Nicosia GAI photographic exhibition. Assessorato alle Politiche Giovanili, Accademia di Belle Arti, Catania.
"I luoghi della vita/Places of Life, European Prize Photographer Women 1999/2000" Prato.
"Breakfast in Gallery, meeting young artists" Galleria LArte Club, Catania.
Expolive 2000 Le Ciminiere, Catania.
1999 "2nd Edition Painting Biennial Exhibition. Felice Casorati Prize" Pavarolo (Torino).
1997 "The color of sport" Universiadi '97 S. Nicol La Rena Church, Catania.

Other activities

2008 "PECHA KUCHA NIGHT volume 4" with the project in-progress together ZERO Architetti (Roberto Forte, Andrea Guardo), Carmen Cardillo Zo Contemporary Cultures Center, Catania.
2007 Illustration and graphic design for the books cover "La luna di Balarm", the first book by Anna Bertuccio, UNIService edition, Trento.
Illustration for the cd's cover "Meet", the first e.p. by Long Hair in Three Stages, SK edition, Catania.
2004 Photographic reportage of Roberta Baldaro's exhibition "Anancasmo".
2003/2009 Collaboration with the architecture and graphic design study "Etcetera" in Catania.
2002 Photograph Course B/W by Angelo Navarria Zo Contemporary Cultures Center, Catania.
2001 Visual arts workshop selections in Banja Lucca (Bosnia), by Querini Stampalia Foundation.
2000 "La Dimora dello Sguardo" contemporary photograph seminar, organization GAI: "Mediterranean" by Mimmo Jodice Assessorato alle Politiche Giovanili, Catania. Graphic design and staging for "Ecce Homo" the Swedish artist Elisabeth Ohlson photographic exhibition C.S.A. Auro, Catania.

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MAY 2013

HORIZONS OF SILENCE: dream or tragedy of humankind?
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May 23th - June 29th
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