Paola Romano - Golden Moon

Paola Romano, an Italian artist, painter, and sculptor, was born in Monterotondo (Rome) on September 17, 1951. She developed her artistic career in Rome, where she lived and worked until 2011. In 2012, she opened a charming showroom nestled in the historic center of her hometown, where she currently resides. After training at RUFA (Rome University of Fine Arts) and continuing her studies, around 2000, she began a more active career in the production of highly textured artworks. This marked the birth of a new artistic and personal identity, and Romano's works have been included in prestigious public and private art collections since her earliest days. Among her most famous works are the "Lune" series, which dominated the sky of Via Margutta in Rome in 2012; the "Planimetrie" series; the "Plastici" series; the "Zoom" series; the evocative fresco series; the highly acclaimed bronze sculptures; and the "Monocromi" series, particularly the white works, which were also included in Carlo Verdone's film "Sotto una buona stella," released in Italian theaters in February 2014. Romano's art is a perfect fit for film sets due to its striking aesthetic impact. In 2005, Italian director Pupi Avati noticed the artist during her solo exhibition at the Galleria dei Leoni on Via Margutta and commissioned three works for the film "La cena per farli conoscere." In 2012, one of Paola Romano's "Mona" pieces was used in the set design for Gianni Nazzaro's play "Penso che un sogno così..." (I Think of a Dream Like This). Since 2013, Romano's artworks from her "Lune" series have been featured in the television program "Telecamere," hosted by Anna La Rosa and broadcast on RAI3. The artist's "Lune" pieces have also captivated the Zarineh Tappeti group, which has created, under the KF Luxury brand, exquisite carpets reproducing a selection of Romano's "Lune" artworks. The carpets were exhibited to the public for the first time in the "Farshe-Mah" (Moon Carpets) exhibition on March 14, 2015, at the Roma Eventi Congress Center in Rome. Romano's art can also be admired in permanent exhibitions at the Magna Carta Foundation in Rome and the Sale Urbaniane in Vatican City, to name a few. Among the awards he has received we recall the “Premio Internazionale Arcaista” in 2007, “Approdi d'Autore” and the “Premio Roma” in 2009. He has several publications to his credit, including his first important catalogue “Esperienze Estetiche” (2006) presented on the occasion of the personal exhibition of the same name at the Museum of Musical Instruments in Rome, curated by Prof. Vittorio Sgarbi, which was followed by “Dal Cosmo al Caos” (2007) associated with the personal exhibition at the Sale Urbaniane in Vatican City, “Quarta Fase Emozioni Plastiche” (2008) with two exhibitions, one in Rome and the other at Castel dell'Ovo in Naples, curated by Prof. Elio Rumma, “Plenilunio Fantastico” (2009) curated by Prof. Francesco Gallo with the exceptional success of the personal exhibition at Palazzo Ziino in Palermo, “il mare della tranquillo” (2011) on the occasion of the exhibition at the Galata Museo del Mare. Genoa. International participations include an exhibition in Hong Kong at the "Cultural Center" opera house. The artist, introduced by the intellectual Professor Giovanni Puglisi, rector of IULM, participated in the 54th Venice Art Biennale in 2011 in the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Arsenal, curated by Professor Vittorio Sgarbi, where she exhibited a significant and highly acclaimed three-dimensional installation in ^Plexiglass® and matter, over two meters high, published in the official catalogue of the 54th Biennale, "Art is not our thing." In 2012, with "Equilibri Astrali," curated by Professor Claudio Strinati, Paola Romano exhibited in Rome in the evocative atmosphere of the monumental complex of Sant'Andrea al Quirinale in the Sale dei Dioscuri, drawing a four-figure audience. In 2013, Romano's works inaugurated the opening of the Roman branch of the Philobiblon Gallery, which already has locations in London and New York, and which is associated with the catalog "Io, Paola Romano." In January 2014, her works were exhibited at Marzia Spatafora's new gallery in Brescia, and that same year, the artist was selected for the Venetian art exhibition "Sensibilmente." In March 2014, she exhibited in the prestigious two-person exhibition "Similitudine & Contrasto" at the Vittoriano complex in Rome, during which her impressive "Luna Galileo" was displayed and the video "E Pur si Muove," created by the Ideagono group, was presented. In June 2014, Romano exhibited with Massimo di Cave in the two-person exhibition "Sconfinamenti" at the Romanian Academy in Rome, and in the fall of the same year, works from the "Lune" series were exhibited at "The Brian & Barry Building" in Piazza San Babila in Milan. In June 2015, he presented the solo exhibition "Moon Amour," curated by Giovanni Faccenda and Alain Chivilò at the National Museum of Villa Pisani in Stra (Venice), which was accompanied by a catalog of the same name. From November 7 to 29, 2015, the artist exhibited in Rome at the Portuguese Institute of Sant'Antonio in Rome (IPSAR) with the exhibition "In Other Words." The catalog, featuring essays by prestigious figures in art, culture, and science, including Andrea Romoli Barberini (curator), Giovanni Faccenda, Stefano Zecchi, and Marco Baranello, was presented. The Roman event attracted 1,500 visitors during the opening night alone. The artist's works are included in the permanent online catalogue Artingout.com, in the Acca Modern Art Yearbook and in the CAM Mondadori Contemporary Art Catalogue (n. 50, 2015) as well as boasting interviews and citations in art and design magazines. Between 2014 and 2015 Paola Romano decided to pay homage to the great masters of Arte Povera by creating a limited production of moons freely inspired by the works of artists such as Emilio Isgrò, Janni Kounellis, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Michelangelo Pistoletto and Giuseppe Uncini. In 2015 the municipality of Monterotondo commissioned two important works, one for the headquarters of the Teatro Comunale "Francesco Ramarini" of 8 meters in length and 1.40 in height and a bronze sculpture of over 3 meters presented in the summer of 2016 and inserted in the complex of the Civic Tower of the city of Monterotondo (Rome). In May 2015, Paola Romano decided to pay homage to the great masters of Arte Povera by creating a limited production of moons freely inspired by the works of artists such as Emilio Isgrò, Janni Kounellis, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Michelangelo Pistoletto and Giuseppe Uncini. In 2016, for the first time ever, an art exhibition was hosted at the restored Rocca Janula in the city of Cassino (FR). Curated by Roberto Capitanio, the show was titled "Tales of the Moon." The artist receiving this honor was none other than Paola Romano. In the summer of 2016, the Municipality of Monterotondo (Rome) once again hosted Paola Romano's exhibition "Visions," curated by Andrea Romoli Barberini. In May 2017, the artist exhibited in Rome at the "Stadium of Domitian" (Piazza Navona) with the solo exhibition "Silenti Riflessi," which was accompanied by a catalog of the same name. On August 3, 2017, in a Rai TG2 report, four works from Paola Romano's Lune series were associated with the four elements to discuss the underground, esoteric, and secret Rome described by Dan Brown, author of books such as "The Da Vinci Code" and "Inferno." Paola Romano's works have also been featured in art programs such as Franco Boni's "Porto Franco" and are often presented by art historian Giovanni Faccenda in the Modern Art program at the Orler Gallery. Paola Romano favors material in the creation of her works, almost as if she wanted to exercise her "creative power" through the plastic manipulation of objects to give life to new forms, to concepts that verbal representation alone would not suffice to identify. Paola Romano's art is clearly dynamic, gestural, and highly kinetic. Thus Giuseppe Di Giacomo, professor of aesthetics at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", states that "for Romano, painting means entering into matter and color, exploring all their possibilities and giving life to her declared objective, movement." The art of Paola Romano, defined on many occasions as linked to "conceptualism", is instead considered by the critic and historian Vittorio Sgarbi "paradoxically as an anti-conceptualism" and, he continues, "Paola Romano is right to propose a Neo-Conceptualism that recovers the pleasure of what historical Conceptualism wanted to deny". Paola Romano, however, does not stop in the face of possible placements; she is always herself and therefore always changing. "Ultimately", maintains Gianluca Ranzi, "Paola Romano's works breathe like a living organism on whose skin is written its own genetic memory and on which the determination of its future rests" . Paola Romano, says Giovanni Puglisi, "appreciated by many worlds... continues to create a moon for each of them." For Claudio Strinati , "the unstoppable flow of inspiration is the driving force behind everything the artist undertakes," and for Andrea Romoli Barberini, "the meaning of these works is [...] entirely encompassed in the very experience that generates them." In Paola Romano, study of technique, research, and experimentation are integrated with the dynamic, evolutionary development of her personal identity. Thus, Marco Baranello, an Italian psychologist and scientist, founder of the emotocognitive theory, defines her as "a Peter Pan of art who, just when we think she has reached artistic maturity, surprises us again with new, completely original interplays of color, form, and interlocking pieces that transport her back to a creative adolescence, an artistic restlessness that never leaves us indifferent."

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