Monica Michelotti - Male Face

Monica Michelotti

He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara, where he currently holds the chair of Artistic Anatomy. His studio is located in Palazzo Forti, Via Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1 Carrara.

A sculptor, painter, graphic artist, and creator of installations, artist books, object books, and artist mail, she began exhibiting in the 1980s with numerous solo and group art shows in Italy and abroad, both in public spaces and private galleries. Some of her works have appeared on book covers published by Franco Angeli in Milan and CLUEB in Bologna. Her interests range from experimentation with graphic-pictorial languages ​​to sculpture, with particular focus since 2008 on travel sculptures in the form of art books and object books. Her artistic sensibility has explored new forms of expression, using diverse materials. Her works incorporate musical influences from postal art and the world of multimedia. Since 1998, she has been pursuing a quest for personal introspection, using lived experiences, filtering them through her creativity and imagination to create paintings, sculptures, and environmental installations. Examples include: CARTASIA 2005, Lucca Contemporary Art Biennial; 2010 solo exhibition Museo Statue Stele, Pontremoli; 2013 exhibited at Sapere Aude, off circuit, 55th Venice Art Biennale, Cà Zanardi; invited in 2014 – 2016 - 2018 to the Salerno Biennale of Contemporary Art; 2015 and 2017 to the Artist's Book Biennale, Naples; Adrian Piper's e. mail art project, 56th Venice Biennale, 2015; Tibet Pavilion, Palazzo Zenobio, 57th Venice Biennale, 2017, third Watercolor and Drawing Biennial, curated by Massimo Bertozzi, Massa Palazzo Ducale, 2019.

His works are present in public and private collections: CAMeC Center of Modern and Contemporary Art in La Spezia; Center of Modern Art in Argentina; GaMC Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Viareggio; Collection of the Region of Florence, Palazzo Panciatichi; Collection of the University of Valencia (E); Museum of the Nativity in Bethlehem; Ugo Guigi Museum, Forte dei Marmi (LU); Atlantic Center of Modern Art, Las Palmas (E); Erzia International Foundation, Moscow, Russia; Ahaanxi Province Art Museum in Xi'an, China; Charles Dickens Museum in London; University Museum of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.

Numerous historians and art critics have written about his work in personal and collective catalogues, articles and reviews.

As of 2018, he has held 19 solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions.

It is present in the book Artist Profiles 2018 by Giammarco Puntelli Editoriale Giorgio Mondadori.

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