Project Description
Lucia Simone
Born: in 1986, in Perugia, Italy.
Lucia Simone was born in Perugia (IT) in 1986, where she began to study art and music. In 2010, she graduated from the Accademia Di Belle Arti in Rome, where in 2013 she successively completed in painting and direct engraving. In 2009 she composed the original music for the short film “Love Conquers Mountains” by Fernanda Moneta.
In 2012 she won a scholarship in painting as assistant to Gianfranco Notargiacomo, who held the teaching post in painting at the Accademia Di Belle Arti in Rome. She was responsible for teaching basic art techniques. Her works are present in the Archive of the Italian Engravers of Bagnacavallo, in the Archive of the Aqui International Biennal for engraving, in the private collection Archanes 6 (Heraklion, Creta, GR), and in the Sixth Repertoire of Italian Engravers.
She has won several awards including an artist residence, third Prize of the International FIG Bilbao, she has exhibited in various museums including MACRO La Pelanda (RM – IT), Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art, and prestigious venues such as Palazzo Montecitorio and Palazzo Vecchio for the Premio Firenze. A solo exhibition of particular importance was “Uncanny” at the Interzone gallery (RM – IT) where the observer was led to face his own weaknesses by looking at digital and pictorial work which include disturbing content wrapped in a seemingly comforting representation.
This research developed into “Consumed Reality” at Fondamenta gallery, which was covered in depth in the Inside Art Magazine of December 2018. An artist residence at the MACRO (Museo Arte Contemporanea Roma) , includes live painting and an exhibition of her works in one of the museum’s ateliers (December 2 – 9, 2019). Gian Ruggero Manzoni, Cecilia Casorati and Viola Di Grado have written critical texts about her work. She lives and works in Rome.
Research
Lucia Simone’s art fixes the moment of psychic emergency: the instant when things, faces, emotions are about to fade or already gone, hence what we have to attend as human beings inhabiting time is nothing more than left-overs, the allarmed cry of those things that must persist, defyning us, trying to find their place in the bitter shades or the subconscious.
As she declared:
“It starts from my need to develop a language capable of expressing complex mental and emotional states. I use the suggestive power of images and, more
generally, the media I find most suitable to express my thought in a specific context. I basically collect vintage photos, chosen for their evocative power,
or advertising poster from the 1950’s, and then I rewrite their meaning using digital collage. Eventually, but not necessarily, I paint canvas- es of the results I get by deforming and scratching the subjects’ faces. The perception of mystery or magic is more related to the meaning of Das Unheimliche, the Uncanny, my aim is to break the taboo of unsettling appearance, because what unsettles – and deceives – me is my being involuntarily drawn to it: ‘The Uncanny is a kind of fright which goes back to something we’ve known for a long time, to what’s familiar to us’, as Sigmund Freud wrote in 1919 in his The Uncanny.”
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021-2022
Lucia Simone. Signal Lost
curated by Chiara Canali, IAGA Contemporary Art, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2019
Consumed Reality
Fondamenta gallery, 24 January – 1 February, Rome, Italy
2018
Uncanny
7-31 March 2018, Interzone galleria, Rome, Italy
2017
Ashes
16 – 30 September, NVMEN space, Rome, Italy
2016
The Colors Are The Real Inhabitants of Space
curated by Cecilia Casorati, 17 June – 2 July, contemporary art gallery Monogramma, Rome, Italy
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
Marchionni Prize
15 June – 31 July, Museo MAGMMA, Villacidro, Italy
2019
La grande Mostra di Manet, Marchionni Prize
Museo Archeologico, Olbia, Italy
2018
Big Awards
Barcellona, Spain
2018
Canova Art Prize
New York, USA
2018
51st Vasto Prize of Contemporary Art, Landscapes Beyond the Landscape – For a Contemporary “Sublime”
curated by Silvia Pergoraro, 21 July – 7 October , Palazzo Aragona, Vasto, Italy
2018
Rospigliosi Art Prize
Roma, Italy
2018
ArtBox.Project New York 1.0, semifinalist
Stricoff Gallery, 5 – 16 March, New York, USA
2018
Lol
PH21 Gallery, 21 December – 13 January, Budapest, Hungary
2018
Fantasmi Di Luce – Estetiche visionarie da Michetti al presente – Seventieth anniversary of the Michetti Prize
curated by Silvia Pergoraro, 16 December – 25 February, Michetti Museum, Francavilla al Mare, Italy
2017
Photocraft
15 – 24 December, Galleria Interzone, Rome, Italy
2017
Biennale MarteLive
5 – 10 December, Planet space, Rome, Italy
2017
All Art +
24 November – 1 December, Van Der Plas gallery, New York, USA
2017
Roma
24 November – 1 December, Contatto gallery, Rome, Italy
2017
Autumn Salon Vienna, International Contemporary Art Exhibition
7 – 10 September, Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art, Wienn, Austria
2017
Take Five
9 December – 11 January, Monogramma, Rome, Italy
2017
Vo(L)to di Donna
project shows Chamber of Deputies, curated by Silvia Pergoraro, 1° December – 18 January, Palazzo Montecitorio, Sala della Regina, Rome, Italy
2016
Combat Prize
25 June – 16 July, Civic Museum G. Fattori, Livorno, Italy
2016
Mirror Face to Face, Italian and Macedonian Artist
curated by Valeria Bertesina & Vlado Goreski, 23 March – 20 April, International Graphic Triennal Bitola Institute and Museum, Bitola, Macedonia
2016
International Print Awards, Prize F.I.G. Bilbao & Prize Acqui Terme
8 – 24 April, D’arT museum, Cagliari, Italy
2016
Prize young engravers | Bagnacavallo – 2015
18 December – 14 Febbruary, Civic Museum, Bagnacavallo, Ravenna, Italy
2015
Lynx Prize
Trieste – Lux Art Gallery (IT), Ajdovščina – gallery Lokarjeva (SL), Sala degli Archi della Fortezza Nuova, Livorno, Italy
2014
FIG Bilbao, Festival Internacional de Grabado Contemporaneo
Bilbao, Spain
2014
Florence Prize
6 December, Palazzo Vecchio, Salone dei Cinquecento, Florence, Italy
2014
Adrenalina Prize
1 September – 22 November, La Pelanda – Museo Macro di Testaccio / Civic Museum, Marino, Rome, Italy
2014
Dimensioni
curated by Daniela Accorsi, 30 November – 15 January, AccorsiArte gallery, Turin, Italy
2013
Romance
curated by Tiziana Musi, 17 September – 5 October, Temple University, Rome, Italy
2013
XI edition della International Biennial For Engraving – Prize Acqui
15 June – 7 July, Acqui Terme, Alessandria, IT
2013
Nuovo Spazio AccorsiArte
curated by Daniela Accorsi, 1 – 22 June, AccorsiArte gallery, Turin, Italy
2013
Artefatto Soft Power – International Exhibition Under 35
24 May – 16 June, Civic Museum Revoltella, Trieste, Italy
2013
Flyenergia Prize
curated by Gian Ruggero Manzoni, 20 May – 6 June, Deodato Arte gallery, Milan, Italy
2013
Gorlago Prize
25 May – 2 June, municipal civic hall, Gorlago (Bergamo), Italy
2013
ArtBrescia – International Biennal of Contemporary Art
2 March – 29 May, Diocesan Museum, Brescia, Italy
2013
I Colori dell’Anima
curated by Daniela Accorsi, 23 February – 14 March, AccorsiArte gallery, Turin, Italy
2012
Prize for Academies “L’arte Genera L’arte”
Prize Terna & Accademia Nazionale Santa Cecilia, Rome, Italy
2012
Adrenalina Prize
15 November – 2 December, Museum of Contemporary Art Rome (MACRO La Pelanda), Rome, Italy
2012
Eureka Prize
15 – 23 December, Diocesan Museum, Terni, Italy
2012
Lanci Prize
30 September – 20 October, Caffè Letterario Giubbe Rosse, Florence, Italy
2012
Combat Prize
22 – 30 June, Civic Museum Giovanni Fattori, Livorno, Italy
2011
X edition International Biennial for Engraving – Prize Acqui
19 June – 7 July, Acqui Terme (Alessandria) Italy
AWARDS
2020
Malamegi Art Prize
Catalogue Prize, Italy
2019
Marchionni Art Prize 2019
Museo MAGMMA, 15 June – 31 July, Villacidro, Italy
2019
Special Prize “La grande Mostra di Manet”, Marchionni Prize 2019
Archaeological Museum, Olbia, Italy
2015
FIG Bilbao – Third classified
Artist’s residence, September, Casa Falconieri, Cagliari, Italy
2014
Adrenalina Prize, third classified in the Silver category – Painting
1 September – 22 November, La Pelanda – Museo Macro di Testaccio / Museo Civico – Comune di Marino, Rome, Italy
2014
First prize Fiorino d’oro, Premio Firenze – Graphics
Salone dei Cinquecento, 6 December, Florence, Italy
2012
Prize for academies “L’arte Genera L’arte” – Second classified
Prize Terna & Accademia Nazionale Santa Cecilia, Rome, Italy
2012
Eureka Prize – Third classified
15 – 23 December, Diocesan Museum, Terni, Italy
ART FAIRS
2021
Affordable Art Fair Hamburg
International art fair, Hamburg, Germany
2021
Vilnius Art Fair
International Art Fair, Vilnius, Lithuania
2019
Art Market Budapest
International Art Fair, 3th-6th October 2019, Budapest, Hungary
2018
Paratissima Art Photo Fair
Milano, Italy
2016
Affordable Art Fair
Seoul, Korea
2014
Fiera d’arte di Genova, Contemporary Art Talent Show
Genova, Italy
ART RESIDENCES
2019
Atelier #3
3th – 8th December, MACRO ASILO (Museo Arte Contemporanea)
La Zona/the neighborhood
Casa Falconieri, Cagliari, Italy. Obtained on the occasion of the 3rd International Engraving Fig Award Bilbao.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Inside Art magazine #115, edit. Inside Art, 2018;
- Uncanny – Lucia Simone, Deadroads 4 – Interzone Galleria, Rome, edit. Blurb, 2018;
- Combat Prize 2018, Livorno, edit. Sillabe, 2018;
- Combat Prize 2016, Livorno, edit. Sillabe, 2016;
- Linx Prize, Trieste, edit. Franco Rosso Editore, 2015;
- VI repertoire of Italian Engravers, Faenza (RA), edit. Faenza, 2013;
- Premio Aqui, XI edition International Biennial for Engraving, San Giuliano Milanese, edit. Mazzotta, 2013;
- Aqui Prize, X edition International Biennial for Engraving, San Giuliano Milanese, edit. Mazzotta, 2011;
- Combat Prize 2012, Livorno, edit. Sillabe, 2012.
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