Ilaria Gasperoni Biografia

My name is Ilaria Gasperoni. I’m a instinctive and versatile painter, mostly beacuse I started in 1997 as a self-taught artist, using two and three dimensional materials as collage.I travelled a lot around the world: I lived three years in Granada (Spain), one year in Tenerife. I started assembling collages in Brazil where I lived three years making and selling needle works. So my art work at the beginning was very abstract, concentrating on the symbolism of the shapes. As I studied antropology and filosofy as a subject at the University of Siena (Italy) and I’m always been interested in the study of all religions around the world, many of my pitcure came out of this background and open mind conception, like the pitcure "filosofia". Besides there’s a part of me very connected to the nature and I relate this when I paint animals. Moreover I usually like to associate objects wich apparently doesn’t have any connection between them, but they really have it, like the rhino with the tour Eiffel on the background or the Masai people in Duomo square (the principal square of Milan), which are an allegory of the actual miscellany of different culture that is shaking and changing Europe in the last years. I’m also interested in painting ethnic women. I’m fascinated by deep rooted cultures and I pick up women as a subject because each woman in each different culture represents the mother earth. When I came back to Milan I did a lot of expositions. I exhibited my art work in various italian galleries, cafè and cultural associations. From 2005 I improved my knowledge of painting techniques with various artists like the danish Anders Pedersen and the italians Umberto Faini, Giuliana Bellini and Mintoi.
So my technique now is a synergy between the classic painting oil and the more instinctive 3d and 2d collage using sand, golden leaf, strass, buttons and other things.
I made a lot of painting works under commission. One of my works, titled "Piazza Fontana" was published on the italian calendar 2007 called "El calendari milanes" and yet during 2007 I’ve been elected artist of the month by two web sites
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