Carolina Lombardi

Born in 1965

Italy

date of insertion in W.A.D. 06/2024

Biography

I graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and the Central Institute for Restoration of Rome (ICR), working for several years in the field of conservation of wall paintings and paintings on wood/canvas.

The morphological and microscopic analysis of materials, deepened during my  restoration studies, and the empirical observation of natural structures, ordered in their disorder according to the fractal geometry, flow into my  research in a transdisciplinary sense. Textures, with clear allusion to relational dynamics, initially imprinted on clay grounds or made with various types of threads, have evolved into luminous installations.

My work experiments with different media, from textiles to video, from light to site-specific installations. I have engaged in social and environmental  initiatives, addressing critical issues such as microplastic pollution, violence against women and humanitarian assistance for the most vulnerable and migrants.

My activities also extend to the literary field with the publication of poetry collections and participation in numerous poetry readings at the Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, public gardens in Rome and the Regina Coeli prison, focusing on social and environmental themes as well as Pasolinian writing. In my works, poetry and visual art interact fluidly, without rigid boundaries, aiming to merge and contaminate multiple languages.

Curriculum

CURRICULUM VITAE

2024 – “Books of Art. The books, the artists”, MUACC Museum, Cagliari;

2024 – “Text/Textus/Fabric: towards an ecology of belonging”, Webinar as part of the Eco Art Festival 2024, Calatafimi Segesta (Trapani);

2024 – “Dialogues. Carolina Lombardi.” Rome Art week, Carolina Lombardi in conversation with the works of Maurizio Cannavacciuolo and Alberto di Fabio, Galleria Emmeotto, Rome;

2024 – “The wonder of time. The pinwheel and pyrotechnic art in Castel Sant’Angelo, National Museum of Castel Sant’Angelo, “Supernova” light installation;

2024 – “Artists at Villa Borghese – Series of meetings on art and nature” curated by Claudio Crescentini. Video installation: “Physarum polycephalum” and transdisciplinary dialogue with Edmondo De Liguori (Professor, historian of philosophy and essayist), Cleofe Palocci, (Professor of bio and nanotechnology, Director of CIABC, chemistry department, La Sapienza University of Rome), Maria Giuseppina Di Monte (Director Hendrik Christian Andersen Museum).

2024 – “Precious miniatures”, Municipal Historical Archive, edited by Stefania Balestri, Palermo.

2023/2024 – “Embroidering chaos”, Hendrik Christian Andersen Museum, curated by Maria Giuseppina Di Monte and Gabriele Simongini, in collaboration with Emmeotto Arte Gallery, Rome.

2023/2024 – “Discursus/Narrazione 5”, site specific installation, National Museum of Castel Sant’Angelo, Rome;

2023 – “Noi per Voi 2023”, Conference and performance against violence against women, Hendrik Christian Andersen Museum, Rome;

2023 – “Female creativity without borders”, seminar in collaboration with the International Federation of Female Artists, Hendrik Christian Andersen Museum, Rome;

2023 – “Caro Pierpaolo” performance curated by Laura Facchini, as part of the exhibition “Pasolini painter”, Gallery of Modern Art, Rome;

2022 – “Contemporary Fossil”, installation at Palazzo d’Aumale as part of the exhibition: “Tra-ma-re/ From the sea’s Texture to human fabric “: Terrasini – Palermo;

2019 – “Contemporary Fossil”, installation as part of the exhibition: “Between tradition and innovation”, Museum of the Five Senses, for the European Night of Museums, Sciacca;

2014 – “I choose us”, against violence against women, International House of Women, Rome;

2013 – “Paths”, Baldini Library, Rome;

2009 – “Of the same substance as the last”, in support of humanitarian aid for the most vulnerable and migrants, Scuderie di Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome;

2008 – “Contemporary artists”, Galleria La Borgognona, Rome;

2008 – “Freedom”, Galleria Cortese & Lisanti, Rome;

2007 – “Sea, sea, sea”, Galleria Cortese & Lisanti, Rome;

2007 – “Contemporary artists”, Galleria La Borgognona, Rome;

2007 – “Women of art: ten abstract women from Accardi to Weller”, Galleria Cortese & Lisanti, Rome;

2007 – “Metamorphosis”, Galleria Monte-Carlo Art Gallery, curated by Rosanna Ruscio, Milan;

2006 – “Analogies”, Galleria La Borgognona, curated by Luciano Marziano, Rome.

2006 – “The Casket”, Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome;

2006 – “Contemporary artists”, Galleria La Borgognona, Rome;

2006 – “Between myth and symbol”, Fortezza Da Basso, Florence.

She has published poetic anthologies:

2022 and 2023 with Robin Edizioni: “Notebook of poems”,

2021 with Transeuropa Edizioni: “Dance of lights and shadows”,

2018 with the Mario Luzi Foundation: “Elegy of the void”.

Awarded in various literary prizes including:

– the Anna Kuliscioff National Poetry Prize, Turin;

– the International Poetry Prize: “Being harmony” in Assisi;

– the International Poetry Prize: “Salvatore Quasimodo” in Rocca Imperiale/Cosenza.

She participated with her poetic texts in readings at the Gallery of Modern Art of Rome;

2023 “Corsair writers” as part of the exhibition: “Pasolini painter” in Pasoliniana: The words of poets and writers in comparison/clash with the themes of Pasolini’s writing, from love to the environment, from the search for an innovative language to the meaning of poetry in the contemporary world;

2021, in conjunction with the exhibition: “Ciao Maschio: face, power and identity of the contemporary man;

2020 “The cities of women”, global cities seen through the poetic words of women poets, to restore the meaning of poetry in our present;

2019 in conjunction with A.Fraddosio’s exhibition: “The overalls and the steel”;

2019 “Women in actions and words”, in conjunction with the exhibition: “Women: body and image between symbol and revolution”;

Further poetic readings at:

The Regina Coeli Prison and various public gardens in Rome (Villa Carpegna, Garden of Largo Alessandrina Ravizza…), during the Roman Summer promoted by Roma Capitale in collaboration with Siae (2017 – 2019);

In 2023, curated by ROMA CENTRO MOSTRE and TRAleVOLTE, two-voice reading of the poetic texts taken from “Icosaedro” by Patrizia Chianese and “Danza di luci e ombre” by Carolina Lombardi, presentation by Plinio Perilli.

Some of her poems have been published in literary magazines including the magazine “l’Albatros” directed by Agostino Bagnato and in publications by Erreciemme Edizioni: “Telling Roma. Tales from the invisible city” 2020, “Steel words” 2019 – Women in actions and words” 2019.

She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and subsequently from the Central Institute for Restoration of Rome, working for several years in the field of restoration of wall paintings and paintings on wood/canvas.

She participated in numerous restoration projects including:

– the cycle of frescoes by Domenichino in Palazzo Odescalchi, Bassano Romano;

– the medieval frescoes in the Abbey of S.Pietro in Valle in Ferentillo, Terni;

– the eighteenth-century frescoes in the Vanvitelli room, Avvocatura Generale dello Stato, Rome;

– the frescoes by Masolino da Panicale in the Basilica of S.Clemente, Rome;

– Giotto’s frescoes in the Scrovegni Chapel, Padua;

– Raphael’s frescoes at the Farnesina, Rome;

– the medieval frescoes in the Cathedral of Anagni.

With the restoration company Kermes in Rome, she participated in the restoration of the Chapel of St. Michael the Archangel at the Tor dè Specchi Monastery in Rome.

Her research work at the Central Institute for Restoration of Rome, entitled: “Preparation and use of artificial blue and green pigments from antiquity to the 16th century” was presented in 1998 at the Louvre and published in abstract in 1999 between the proceedings of the conference in the Louvre magazine: Techne – Art & Chimie au Louvre, n. 8.: “Experimental Study on the production and use of artificial blue and green pigments from antiquity to the 15th century”.