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ADRIANA SOARES - Italy
CONTACTS: adrianasoaresph@gmail.com
Blindness
Pink daisies
mixed media (pictorial photo - acrylic) cm 80 x 100
mixed media (pictorial photo - acrylic) cm 80 x 100
The keys
Geometries
mixed technique (pictorial photo - acrylic) cm 80 x 100
mixed media (pictorial photo - acrylic) cm 80 x 100
The wall
The bicycle
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mixed technique (pictorial photo - acrylic) cm 80 x 100
About her Art
Fashion... The essence of the look.'
In 2008, Massa Marittima hosted the 16th edition of the ToscanaFotoFestival under the direction of Franco Fontana.
Attending alongside other leading names in photography.
'Fashion... The essence of appearance' - Adriana Soares
14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 July 2008
'Fashion… the essence of appearing.'
Photography, as I see it, is a constant search, a kind of study of the human soul… even if I place it in an imaginary or fantastic setting…
You learn the technique and interpret it, like a numerical combination, yet not random but personal and unique…
The workshop will end on Saturday morning with a meeting at Palazzo Dell'Abbondanza where, with Epson experts, we will talk about printing. (see details in the workshop 'Printing techniques for digital colour images and in B/W')'
Press Review:
Fashion and Movies: “So Green so Glam...” 2013
“Drawing with Light”
Prize:
“La Valentina” - At “Moda Movie” 2013 - Awarded to personalities who stood out for originality in the fashion world
Press review:
www.csen.it (Csen News) (4 photos)
What a great article!!!! On p. 25! www.csen.it http://89.97.62.208/csen.it/csenews/cseNews n. 14.pdf
Fashion News Magazine:
http://www.fashionnewsmagazine.com/2013/06/12/moda-movie-2013/
Moda Movie Fashion Press Conference - at Confartigianato Imprese headquarters in Rome
Thanks for the kind permission to use the photo by:
Fashion News Magazine
http://www.fashionnewsmagazine.com/2013/05/24/moda-movie-a-roma/
Calabria Courier:
http://www.fashionnewsmagazine.com/2013/05/24/moda-movie-a-roma/
http://www.cn24tv.it/news/69412/cosenza-le-donne-protagoniste-di-moda-movie-2013.html
EXHIBITIONS:
Exhibitions: Looks, Smiles, Faces... Women. by Adriana Soares.
Sponsored by the City of Rome and the Department for Cultural and Communication Policies.
"ET AINSI UN SOIR - Journey through transsexuality and its art" “Capalbio Art”
Tokyo, Japan:
b-Maniac (Strecht Couture)
Around the gigantic Mori Tower of Roppongi Hills and its strange spider-statue, a series of walkways, stairs, squares, venues and shopping malls winds along, and it is inside the West Walk of this complex that we find Citrus Notes, whose window display features the models, strictly in black, from Stretch Couture’s b-Maniac collection. All framed by the striking images of young photographer Adriana Soares, Brazilian by birth and Italian by adoption.
This is the Black Dahlia Event, a temporary shop, also attended by the two designers Augusto Vespasiani and Laura Nesi, the creators of the collection, in Tokyo.
Some Collaborations:
1. Telepiù magazine
2. Vero
3. Mirage magazine
4. Modern Girl
5. Me, Model
6. Gp Magazine
7. Living Magazine
8. Sleepless Magazine
9. Fleming Rome
10. Matrix Magazine
11. TV Smiles and Songs
12. Beautiful Bride
13. Bridal Collections
14. Rome Brides
15. Leggo - Rome Nightlife
16. Stop
17. Diva and Woman
18. TV Radio Courier...
19. Punto D Diamonds
20. Habitart
21. LandRover Evoquetive
http://isa.evoquetive.com/
"I’d like to start by talking a bit about me, since this is My Space, about my sensitivity as a person and as a photographer; maybe it’s too much to claim I’m an artist, but I do consider myself one, with my insecurities, my restlessness, my fragilities, sometimes even arrogant, touchy and extremely conceited. My nature may seem strange and unusual, but it isn’t. Well… it’s tied to my life, to my past, or maybe it’s innate... there are those who are born introverted, melancholic, sly, sociable, brilliant… I was born, I don’t know how to define myself, but I preferred to be alone, to draw, to write; strange, who would have ever said I’d end up doing jobs that require the opposite attitude—first a globe-trotting model and then a photographer!"
That said: I can’t quite find the root of this sensitivity, maybe because I lost my dad too early, I don’t know, but there’s an important, intense and beautiful memory that I still take refuge in when there’s chaos.
The thing I loved most as a child, then as a teenager and later as a woman was to close my eyes, disconnect whenever I felt sad and lean out of my window, feel the wind shaking the trees, often in bloom; I would stay there for a long time, to my mother’s despair, feeling the scented breeze on my face and in my hair—sometimes I catch that scent again… it’s a bit like coming home! And there I would dream up worlds, the future, simple and extraordinary things that only a little girl could imagine. In a way I’m still that one; luckily life, with its cruel blows—sometimes deserved, sometimes unfair—which nonetheless make you grow up, hasn’t completely changed me. Of course, that doesn’t mean I’m a Peter Pan, no, not that. I’ve remained that dreamy, hopeful child who would climb a tree to hide from the world and hear the sound of the wind in the leaves and create something…
What I do today is, in a way, to take refuge in that tree, at my home, where only I can climb up and hide, behind a subject, a color, a shape, behind the light, behind the shadow… expressing, though, first and foremost sensations, emotions… Me".
Photos are a source of sensations, and the gaze must strike the viewer before anything around them.
Born in Rio de Janeiro, a fashion professional for 25 years. After years of observing and developing the art of great Couturiers, such as Gianfranco Ferrè, Krizia, Alviero Martini, Raffaella Curiel, spokesperson for Tombolini, Di Modena Gioielli.... the desire to create a unique, personal style was born. She studies photographic shooting techniques at the Istituto Superiore di Fotografia in Rome, where she also refines the tool of photographic post-production with photo retouching.
"Photography has always fascinated me; it’s a very contemporary and expressive art form. Photography supports my creative drive; it’s the most natural evolution from my previous work. Photography allows me to express emotions. I love beauty, and through my photos I try to catch the eye through the fusion of color, light, contrasts, shapes. My subject must never look banal; it must communicate both through the gaze and the body, but never be vulgar!
When I was a Model, it was fun to play a role that changed depending on the product I had to represent; being a good Model is a bit like being an Actress: I had to identify with the product to be advertised, I was a liaison between it and the viewer.
I tried to understand what the Photographer wanted from me; now it’s the opposite, but more demanding! There are many aspects I used to ignore: from the technical ones, to the relationship with the client, with the model (male/female), with the staff—things I must bring together harmoniously for the success of the work, otherwise I wouldn’t do what I do well.
So, I truly love my work as a photographer; I do it with passion—this is what I chose.
I did modeling with seriousness, commitment, and the same passion I have now, but that time has passed; there has been an evolution! I never look back, even though being a Model was a precious and essential experience for my success as a fashion photographer.
I learned with my eyes from great couturiers like Gianfranco Ferrè; I witnessed the creation of a dress—indeed, its birth—he treated them like his own creatures! And with the same respect I treat my photos, my subjects...."
Some Publications about me:
www.sanremoworld.com/AdrianaSoares.html
www.gpmagazine.it/index.php?operazione=archivio&anno=2008
2010 Mirage Magazine
2007 Living North countryside
2002 Rome Prati
2006 Natural Style - November no. 41 p. 35
Column on Gp Magazine: “TALK TO ME...”
Soul PhotoDigiPainting Art
Staff:
Tokyo, Japan: 2008
b-Maniac (Strecht Couture)
Around the gigantic Mori Tower of Roppongi Hills and its strange spider-statue, a series of passages, stairs, squares, venues and shopping malls winds along, and it is inside the West Walk of this complex that we find Citrus Notes, whose window display features the models, strictly in black, from Stretch Couture’s b-Maniac collection. All framed by the striking images of young photographer Adriana Soares, Brazilian by birth and Italian by adoption.
This is the Black Dahlia Event, a temporary shop, also featuring the two designers Augusto Vespasiani and Laura Nesi, the creators of the collection, in Tokyo.
March 2010 . Sala Umberto - Rome
"Looks, Smiles, Faces... Women"
Patronage: City of Rome and Department for Cultural and Communication Policies.
"Et ainsi un soir..." - Journey through transsexuality and its art.
Capalbio Art
from 22 to 28 July 2010
The Art Factory NITAM (Les Nomades Italiens du Théâtre, des Arts et des Métiers), in its ever chameleonic activity, launches here in Capalbio the first step of the project “... ET AINSI UN SOIR ...”.
A long artistic journey and photo/journalistic reportage within tr...ansexuality and its world.
Four artists brought together in a project that began from a literary, then journalistic vision by Paolo Valentini (www....nitam.it), then became pictorial expression with Laura Ciarniello (www.nitam.it), and further photographic suggestion with Adriana Soares (www.adrianasoares.com) and raw photographic reportage with Jean Marc Caimi (www.jeanmarcgallery.com).
An intimate, artistic vision of being transgender—at times indistinct yet clearly defined—highlighted by four individual interpretive realities that preview, at Capalbio’s art festival, the work carried out so far, in full and profound evolution.
Soul PhotoDigiPainting Art by Adriana Soares
Period: 5/11 to 08/-12 2013
Place: Rome, Zen Sushi Restaurant- Via degliScipioni, 243
Soul PhotoDigiPainting Art by Adriana Soares
Period: 06-08 December 2013
Venue: Cantina delle Maestranze-
Via Roma, 60
Ronciglione, Viterbo, Cubo Festival
(Sponsored by the Municipality of Viterbo)
Collective
Inside
Period: 09-15 December 2013
Location: London, International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Royal Opera Arcade Gallery London - Pall Mall Street, SW1Y 4UY United Kingdom
curator: Rosi Raneri
Comparisons - Abstractionism Realism
Period: 5-19 November 2013
Venue: Florence, ArtExpertise
curator: Dr. Marina La Volpe
" EXPO BOLOGNA AWARD 2014"
At the prestigious Wikiarte Gallery in Via San Felice 18, alongside Arte Fiera Bologna - from 4 to 23 January 2014. The exhibition will be presented by Art Critic Dr. Giorgio Grasso. With exhibition catalogue.
3rd International Art Prize "City of Corchiano"
"Won 1st Prize"
15 December 2013 - 6 January 2014
curator: Claudio Giulliani
(under the patronage of the Municipality of Corchiano)
Guzman Contemporanea -
First International Contemporary Art Exhibition
at the historic Polveriera Guzman building,
at Via Mura di Levante no. 1, home of the City Archaeological Museum.
from 14 December 2013 to 7 January 2014 ,
curated by Alessandra Barberini
Under the patronage of the Municipality of Orbetello, Province of Grosseto and Tuscany Region.
February 2014
The 1st Creativity Biennale Verona
Critical direction is entrusted to Paolo Levi, artistic direction to Sandro Serradifalco.
Exhibition Catalogue
Arte Genova Fiere 2014 10th Contemporary Art Fair
QueeenArtStudio presents at Arte Genova Fiere 2014 X Contemporary Art Fair, the talk by Art Critic and Historian Giorgio Grasso “The Seduction of Art”, scheduled for 15 February at 5 pm
Exhibition Catalogue
Awards
La Valentina - Cosenza
“La Valentina” - At “Moda Movie” 2013
Awarded to personalities who stood out for originality in the fashion world
1st Prize
3rd International Art Prize "City of Corchiano"
"Won 1st Prize"
15 December 2013 - 6 January 2014
curator: Claudio Giulianelli
(under the patronage of the Municipality of Corchiano)
Criticism
Adriana Soares’ poetics unfolds through lyrical, sensual photographic images, where the fragility and emotion of the female universe burst forth through harmonies and correspondences. The anxieties and insecurities of the modern woman emerge in the artist’s work with strength and resolve, in every single element that composes it. Her works portray faces, details in contrasting colors and tones, shadows, lights, forming a world—unique, constant, and delicate—where there is the search and the will to express oneself through Adriana Soares’ art.
Araxi Iperkjian
The poetics of Adriana Soares is carried out through poetic imagery and sensual dedicated to the woman.
Adriana Soares’ painterly photographic works present unceasing, timeless expressive dualities: echoes and presences, journeys and stillness, details of a memory and present-day fragments of reality. The dominant trait is the beauty and majesty of the face, often emerging within the overlays, lending her works the beauty and elegance bestowed by her profession as a model. Now, the artist herself states, we return to << playing with colors >>, exploring the world with adult eyes, able to convey to the works—through the intensifying painterly color—the force of eternity”. (Rosi Raneri)
The gaze that questions the world is a multiplying of silences. The void, to be dug out with bare hands to reach answers, Adriana Soares makes it passable like a path that, though bereft of certainties, leads to humankind.
Eternity caught in a shot is this beginning again each time, crossing the space between what we believe we are and what we are.
If art’s task is to place new questions on life’s table, Adriana strips truths and shows them to us naked. The non-place of silence becomes a tangible sense that beyond the eyes there is a world to discover, not merely a reality to consume. Photography, as a tool of awareness, becomes painting to meet that double of reality kept within us. It remains for us to discover how many words live inside looking, and whether the nakedness of a gaze is not truly the soul’s garment.
Fiorenzo Mascagna
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