ORIA (ORIA STROBINO) - Italy

CONTACT: info@oriastrobino.it
WEBSITE: www.oriastrobino.it

Nostalgic vibes

The glass half full..

graphite and enamels on panel cm 75 x 90 € 2,000

oil, scagliola and jute on panel cm 40 x 20 cm 40 x 20 € 450

Transparency

oil and plastic plaster on panel cm 40 x 40 € 400

Modesty

pastel on canvas board cm 50 x 70 € 800

Street

Freedom

oil and plastic plaster on panel cm 80 x 30 80 x 30 € 1000

oil and plastic gesso on panel cm 80 x 30 80 x 30 € 1,000

Her Biography

My name is Piera Oria Strobino, artistically known as ORIA. I was born in Cossato (Biella) and live in Cesena.

I am self-taught, so to the question: “When did you start painting?” I should answer that perhaps I was born with colors in my hand…!

I have always been supported by a passion for art.

With curiosity and passion I have experimented with various techniques, and this research is still ongoing.

Among my favorite subjects are nature, the human figure, faces, especially female ones.

In 2008 I completed a very demanding project, lasting more than two years, which resulted in solo traveling exhibitions and the publication of a book collecting the paintings and the historical research on prominent figures in the female world.

The exhibition and the book Being a Woman, which includes 40 paintings and related texts, is in fact an overview of women’s condition through the centuries, with moments of reflection that go beyond ideologies, religion and conventions, yet aims to focus attention on the social role and the peaks of excellence achieved by women in 2,000 years of known history. The exhibition is meant as a tribute to women of value, as well as to the ability, tenacity and female determination that have enabled a conscious and recognized role for these important figures.

The Review

The women of Oria Strobino

From Corriere Romagna, October 15, 2008

The exhibition entitled “Being a Woman” is the result of more than two years of work between historical research and

artistic execution, since Oria intended to create a chronological overview, from prehistory to the present day,

of women’s condition, through figurative scenes and portrait supports paired with explanatory texts

on the biography of the women portrayed or on the historical data related to the figurative development.

Overall, it takes shape as a fresco of the evolution of women’s condition through the centuries.

The exhibition is documented in the corresponding catalog, a true book published by the publishing house

“Il Ponte Vecchio” of Cesena, edited by Melita Vicini Mantero, who presents the works with the

related entries.

Striking from the very first approach are the painter’s graphic skills, as she successfully tackles the difficult

technique of portrait and nude, and shows she can adapt each creation to the historical moment

described, from the ideal mythological composition of Gaia, with an exquisitely fairy-tale flavor, to those marked

by the typical languages of the various civilizations—Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Aryan, medieval—up to the portraits of the

great women who marked the twentieth century, such as Indira Gandhi, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Rita

Levi-Montalcini.

The exhibition concludes with three paintings: the first two raise the issue of violence against women, while

the last, illustrated by the related entry entitled “Angel or demon?”, invites reflection.

ODETTE GELOSI

Curriculum

2014 Contemporary Art Fair of Forlì
Group show Passages Real-Surreal Art-Expertise, Merlino Bottega d’Arte Florence
White Night in Corchiano
Two-person show “Parnassos The Spiritual Cantos” Galleria Rinascenza Contemporanea PE Group show ass. Cult. “The Triptych Contemporary Art” Rome
Group show Contemporary Art Festival F.AR.C. Turin
Group show “The Portrait of Dorian Gray” Art Gallery Coronari 111 Rome
Group show “Beyond II” Galleria Wikiarte Bologna

2013 Fourth Prize “National Contemporary Painting Competition City of Cossato”
Group show Art Wuppertal Germany
Padua Art Fair
Group show “Violence – Immigration” Galleria ex Pescheria Cesena

2012 Group show XI Arts Festival Cervia-salt warehouses
Group show Galleria RossoCinabro Rome
Group show Gallery “Arone & Arone” Locri and Gerace RC
Group show “Explorations in the Feminine” Galleria ex Pescheria Cesena
Contemporary art group show at SpaziOfficina Rome
Group show 8th. Women International Show Latino Art Museum Pomona California

2011 Solo show Restaurant “Cantinaza” Castrocaro Terme
First Prize at the ArteDonna competition 8 March 2011 in Castrocaro Terme
Solo show Galleria CentroArteModerna Pisa
Solo show Galleria IlMuseo di Fonte Nuova Rome
Group show “Penta Logos” Galleria Il Paradisino Modena
Group show “Immagination” Latino Art Museum Pomona California

2010 Group show ArtLoverPassion Aula Pucci Civitavecchia
Group show Made in Woman CentroArteModerna Pisa
2nd Prize ArteDonna8marzo2010 Competition Castrocaro Terme FC
Group show Face to Face Spazio SymposiumXXI Milan
Solo show Restaurant La Vecchia Forlì
Group show “The Artists’ Street” Taormina ME
Group show “International Italy Art “2010” Villa Gualino Turin
Solo show Osteria del Medio Forlì
Group show Kromatikamente parlando Fortezza Michelangelo Civitavecchia Rome
Group show LIBERAmente Galleria Hesperia Pomezia Rome
Third Prize in the competition “The Game” Farnedi editions Cesena
International small-format group show VentiPerVenti Linea d’Arte Naples
“Mary in contemporary art” group exhibition at the Diocesan Museum of
Mistretta and then in the crypt of San Giorgio dei Genovesi in Palermo.
Mini exhibition gallery “Il Salotto dell’Arte” Turin
First Prize at the Gioia del Bimbo competition Trieste

2009 Solo show "Being a Woman" Galleria Palazzo del Ridotto Cesena
First prize Artedonna8marzo competition Castrocaro Terme
Solo show "Being a Woman" Sala Rubicone Magazzini del Sale Cervia

2008 Group show “Expressive Modes” gallery ex Pescheria Cesena
Group show “Eroticart” Studio d’Arte Liverani Forlì
Group show “Colours in Taormina” Taormina Me
Group show Arts Festival Cervia

Solo show “Being a Woman” Palazzo Albertini Forlì

2007 Solo show Galleria Art EM Ravenna
Group show sala Pietro Zangheri Forlì
Group show Arts Festival Magazzini del sale Cervia
Group show Studio d’Arte Liverani Forlì
Group show “Christmas in Art” Taormina Me

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