GABRIELLA FABBRI - Italy -

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MICROCOSMS "Of the black square"

Tragic Dance of Life

mixed media cm 120 X 120

mixed media 90 x 90 cm

MICROCOSMS "Of the black square"

mixed media cm 60 X 420

mixed media

MICROCOSMS "From the black square"

MICROCOSMS "Fragments"

mixed media 60 x 90 cm

mixed media 80 x 100 cm

Conversation

MICROCOSMS "Sequences"

Installation

mixed media 160 x 192 cm installation

Behold....Monster

Meeting

Installation

MICROCOSMS "Fragments"

mixed media 50 x 70 cm

mixed media 80 x 100 cm

HER BIOGRAPHY

Gabriella Fabbri was born in Teramo into a family of writers and artists: her grandfather Giovanni was a writer and publisher in Teramo from the late 1800s until 1938, the year the publishing house closed, having issued numerous works by Abruzzo writers and a newspaper, “L’Italia Centrale”; her father Pasquale was an extremely versatile man: writer (winner in 1962 of the Teramo Prize, Abruzzo section), painter, sculptor, set designer, fine connoisseur of Abruzzo history and art, he took an active part in the city’s cultural and artistic life, until his untimely death in 1966.

In this climate of strong artistic and cultural stimulation, from an early age Gabriella felt a marked interest in drawing and painting, which she pursued as a self-taught artist, having attended the Classical Lyceum and graduated in Literature at the University of Chieti with a thesis on “Popular Themes in the Art of the Teramo Area”.
Winner of a competitive exam for the subject of Art History, she taught it until the 2005/06 school year in various upper secondary schools in Abruzzo and in Teramo.

In 1974, at the urging of painter Alberto Chiarini, she took part for the first time in a plein-air painting event in Cerqueto di Fano Adriano, winning a prize. Thus began her artistic activity (as can be seen from the attached CV): the first phase in the 1970s is what may be called the “green period”, in which the artist depicts simplified landscapes with a prevalence of green.
In the 1980s the “blue period” begins: landscape becomes a reflection on the shadow-light relationship and a surrealist expression of reality. This led, in 1987, to a solo exhibition entitled “Beyond the Light”, shown in Teramo in what is now a small permanent gallery: “Spazio 7 – Gabriella Fabbri”, in Via Filippi Pepe, 24.
From 1994 the period of “vivid chromaticism” begins, in which the palette becomes much richer with the inclusion of all colours; the reflection focuses on the theme of the sphere, which becomes a metaphor for the ideal world, giving rise to the second solo exhibition entitled “Conversation”, shown in Rome for the first time in 2000 at the “Palazzo Margutta” Gallery in Via Margutta and more recently (September–October 2007) in Pescara at the Maison des Arts of the Pescara Abruzzo Foundation and in Teramo at the “C. Gambacorta” hall of the Banca di Teramo in December 2007–January 2008.
The exhibition also featured the artist’s first installation, a conversation with Piero della Francesca, to which in the following years three more were added: “Encounter”, “Ecce…monstrum”, “The Accusation of the Eyes”, shown in various events.
From 2000 her artistic activity became much more intense, with group exhibitions both in Italy and abroad, an activity that would be the subject of several solo shows, since it develops through diverse themes and expressive modes.
Of interest is her approach to informal painting, evident in the cycle “Crossing Time”, in which the artist, taking as her inspiration the flow of time through the passing of the seasons perceived chromatically, frees herself from the compositional rigour of the previous period, creating sixty compositions free of any conceptual message and any compositional scheme.
Through this experience, together with her interest in colour—the dominant motif of the artist’s research—she arrives at the cycle “Cosmic Games”, which addresses the theme of energy in the Macrocosm and in the Microcosms, dwelling on the relationships between these two dimensions and bringing to light numerous conceptual insights.
A section of these themes, entitled “Microcosms - Of the Black Square”, was presented in the solo show at Palazzo Cerulli, in May–June 2008; a second section of the microcosms, entitled “Sequences”, was exhibited from 29 October to 30 November 2009 in the Auditorium of the Music High School, former Church of Santa Maria a Bitetto, in Via Stazio, curated by the Concert Society “Primo Riccitelli”.
Over the course of her artistic career, Gabriella Fabbri has received various prizes and recognitions: from the first plein-air events of the 1970s, to the competitions of the 1980s, up to the more recent successes in the second and fourth “Giovan Battista Moroni” trophy in Bergamo in 2005 and 2007, in the competitions promoted by the “Accademia Internazionale Il Convivio” in Giardini Naxos in 2004, 2005, and the prizes won in Messina in 2005 and 2006 in the first and second international competition dedicated to “Filippo Juvara”.
More recently she received the 2009 Women’s Prize for painting from the Federcasalinghe Association of the city of Teramo and placed third in the International Prize for Art and Culture “Ettore Petrolini” organised by the International Neapolitan Academy “Federico II”.

Teramo, 15 April 2010

HER CV

Artistic activity (painter, self-taught sculptor)
10–30 April 2010 “International Italy Art 2010” Turin
10–22 April 2010 “City of New York Prize” “Il Tempio” Gallery Palermo
10–23 November 2009 “Art in Mind” Brik Lane Gallery London
7–30 November 2009 “Mysterious Venice” Art&Fort Lab Venice
5 November – 5 December 2009 “Lighthouses in the city” Photo exhibition Aci Gallery Turin
29 October – 28 November 2009 “Microcosms – Sequences” Auditorium, Higher Institute of Musical Studies (former church of Santa Maria a Bitetto) Teramo (Solo show)
9 August – 9 September 2009 “Art under the stars” Centro Casa Tani Rovereto
20 June – 20 July 2009 “Twenty by Twenty” Linea d’Arte Officina Creativa Naples
21 March 2009 “Microcosms Selection” Women’s Prize Palazzo della Provincia Teramo (award winner)
3–6 August 2008 “Montone between sun and moon” Montone (TE)
27 July – 10 August 2008 “Ripattoni in art” Bellantarte Association Ripattoni (TE)
30 May – 14 June 2008 “Microcosms” Palazzo Cerulli Teramo (Solo show)
21 December 2007 – 26 January 2008 “Conversation” C. Gambacorta Hall Banca di Teramo – Teramo Solo show
24 September – 5 October 2007 “Conversation” Pescarabruzzo Foundation Accademia d’Abruzzo Pescara Solo show
28 July – 12 August 2007 “Ripattoni in art” Bellantarte Association Ripattoni (TE)
16–30 June 2007 “June group show” New Artemisia Gallery, Bergamo
2–15 June 2007 “From toyland… to the island that isn’t” Ass. “Il Laboratorio” Teramo
9–16 February 2007 “Art on Valentine’s Day” – Bellantarte Association - Bellante
12–15 January 2007 “Bergamo Art Fair” - Bergamo
15–22 October 2006 “Between dream and reality” – New Artemisia Gallery - Bergamo
1–15 August 2006 “Ripattoninarte” - Ripattoni (TE)
18–25 June 2005 “Filippo Juvara Prize” Hall of Mirrors – Messina (award winner)
22–27 May 2006 “Vern’aprile 2006” Fratellanza Artigiana - Teramo
12–13 March 2006 “From art to art” – Sala Delfico – Teramo
10–15 December 2005 “Contemporary Art Biennial” - Agrigento
16–23 October 2005 “The sphere and its world” New Artemisia Gallery - Bergamo
16 October 2005 – “Il Convivio” Prize – Giardini Naxos (ME) (mentioned)
9–17 April 2005 “Filippo Juvara” Prize Hall of Mirrors, Palazzo della Provincia – Messina (award winner)

15–26 December 2004 “Biennial of the Arts of the Unity of Italy” – Royal Palace of Caserta
11–15 November 2004 “Art Fair” – Padua
17 October 2004 – “Il Convivio” Prize – Giardini Naxos (ME) (award winner)
3–8 August 2004 “Montone between sun and moon” – Montone (TE)
12–30 June 2004 “Lights Colours and Forms of the III Millennium” Pomona University – Los Angeles – California U.S.A.
2–5 June 2004 “The hundred painters of Via Toledo” Galleria Umberto I - Naples
June 2004 “Myths, legends and…” Studio Genovesi – “Il Laboratorio” Association – Teramo
December 2003 “Itala arte 2” Cultural association – Modena
October 2003 “Itala arte” Cultural association – Rome
3–8 August 2003 “Montone between sun and moon” – Montone (TE)
31 May–3 June 2003 “The hundred painters of Via Toledo” Galleria Umberto I - Naples
May 2003 “Sign in the dream” Studio Genovesi Association “Il Laboratorio” – Teramo
May 2003 “Re di Roma Review” Piazza della Repubblica – Rome
December 2002 “Priamarte” Priamar Fortress Savona
November 2002 “Astrart” Fourth International Biennial Palazzo Valentini – Rome
October 2002 “Teachers of the Art High School” Municipal Exhibition Hall – Teramo
September 2002 “Five women artists at Villa Norcenni” Figline Valdarno (FI)
June 2002 “Spring Prize” Hall of Angels Palazzo Barberini – Rome
April 2002 “Eco Style” Roof Garden Palazzo Esposizione – Rome
April 2002 “The golden gladiator” “Forum Interart” Gallery – Rome
March 2002 “Plastic movements” “Forum Interart” Gallery – Rome
February 2002 “Fourth Contemporary Art Biennial” Sale del Bramante – Rome
December 2001 “An artist for peace” – L’Aquila
3–8 August 2001 “Montone between sun and moon” – Montone (TE)
July 2001 “Column’ art” – Colonnella (TE9
June 2001 “Rome in bloom” Church of Santa Rita - Rome
May 2001 “Spring Prize” “L’Angelo azzurro” Gallery – Rome “Gilda Arte” - Rome “Chagall” Gallery – Tivoli
February 2001 “Astrart” Ottaviani Gallery – Rome
October 2000 “An artist in the courtyard” Art Gallery – Rome
June 2000 “Second International Painting Biennial Filippo Salesi” – Sanremo
May 2000 “Spring Prize” “L’Angelo azzurro” Gallery – Rome
May 2000 “Third Contemporary Art Biennial” Sale del Bramante – Rome
April 2000 “Conversation” Solo show Gallery “Palazzo Margotta” – Rome
August 1994 “Tribute to Gran Sasso” – Pietracamela (TE)
March 1994 Gallery “La Telaccia” – Turin (award winner)
October 1992 Archaeological Museum – Teramo
November 1991 “Simone Weil” Cloister of San Domenico – Teramo
August 1990 Group exhibition – Martinsicuro (TE) (award winner)
May 1990 “The golden brush” – Sulmona (AQ)
September 1989 Group exhibition – Alanno (PE)
May 1998 “Spring of Val Pescara” – Alanno (PE) (award winner)
April 1987 “Beyond the light” Solo show – Teramo
August 1986 Ex-tempore – Teramo (award winner)
August 1986 Ex-tempore – Torricella Sicura (TE)
August 1986 Ex-tempore – Campli (award winner)
July 1986 Group exhibition Villa Comunale - Roseto degli Abruzzi
August 1985 Ex-tempore – Martinsicuro (TE)
April 1985 Ex-tempore – Alanno (PE) (award winner)
September 1984 Ex-tempore – Teramo (award winner)
August 1984 Ex-tempore – Civitella del Tronto (TE)
August 1984 Ex-tempore Martinsicuro (TE)
May 1984 Ex-tempore Alanno (PE) (award winner)
April 1984 International Prize “Villa Alessandra” – Alanno (PE) (award winner)
August 1982 Ex-tempore – Teramo (award winner)
August 1981 Ex-tempore – Teramo (award winner)
July 1976 Ex-tempore Martinsicuro (TE)
July 1975 Ex-tempore Martinsicuro (TE)
September 1974 Ex-tempore Alba Adriatica (TE) (award winner)
July 1974 Ex-tempore Montefiore sull’Aso (AP)
July 1974 EX-tempore Martinsicuro (TE) (award winner)
July 1974 Ex-tempore Cerqueto di Fano Adriano (TE) (award winner)

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