Antonia Trevisan

Born in 1948

Italy

www.antoniatrevisan.it

Date of insertion W.A.D. 10/2021

Biography

I was born in a traditional family where the sons had the opportunity to choose their schools. The daughters instead had to be “orientated”.

This happens to be the reason why at the time I wasn’t allowed to attend the Arts high school and the Academy of fine arts and was therefore enrolled in a Scientific high school and then in an experimental school.

After two years of scholastic and physical issues (I used to suffer from persistent migraines), luckily my parents agreed on letting me attend a school for applied arts which included classes of general knowledge and also workshops on painting, technical drawing and interior design.

After my diploma I decided to enroll in the faculty of Sociology in Trento thanks to a scholarship with merit. During this period of time I married a person I had met in high school: he had just received a degree in Engineering (he also had to renounce to the faculty of Architecture because at the time it was considered misleading). As soon as I left my family home, a period of freedom from the rigid rules established by my parents soon started. In fact, an intense period of cultural research, backed by my husband who had a passion for architecture and art, very shortly began. He used to support me and encourage my personal research. In that period I worked as a teacher of graphical composition and photography in middle schools.

In my leisure time I used to visit art exhibitions, go to concerts and – when possible – we used to travel: Paris, Spain, Italy, in particular Città di Castello in the Umbria region to meet Burri, and of course Venice, my adoptive city. We never had enough of it. Almost every day after work we used to meet some Venetian artists (Gianni Palminteri , Pompeo Pianezzola, Luciano Vistosi, Luciana Bonfanti….), architects (Motterle, Scarpa, Bellavitis, Sandri …) and entrepreneurs such as the publishers of Electa Mimmo Zelman and Giorgio Fantoni. I was offered the opportunity to meet Balthus, Bonito Oliva and Moravia in Giorgio Fantoni’s home in Venice. We used to discuss the meaning of art and the spiritual and communicative importance of painting, music and the genius loci with them.

I always took my son with me who was born in the meantime. I went on developing my artistic research letting myself get carried away by emotions while touching and experimenting different materials. I used to combine drawing, graphical composition and the most diverse materials. I used to study light, transparencies, overlappings and then I encountered glass. I was so fascinated by this material that I wanted to know every aspect of it and its fragility in order to be able to handle it and create on my own so to become my job: artistic blown glass windows. In those years I had an on‐the‐job training in a glass master’s workshop: I worked a lot before he accepted that a woman desired dealing with a job traditionally considered for men only. Yet, I was so determined that I learnt all the techniques to handle and cut glass manually.

I’ve always had to struggle in order to show that my job is worthy for what it is, beyond the fact of being a woman. This difficulty could possibly be the reason that has motivated me to become part of the association “Woman calls woman” and actively participate in a counseling help desk dedicated to girls ‐ organised in the high schools in Vicenza. I  am  always  happy  when  I  come  into  my  atelier!  I  create  intensely,  my  craving  for communication expresses itself on canvas, glass and other materials so I can follow my beliefs. Nothing has ever stopped me, neither what is considered positive such as having my children, nor what is negative such as cancer which I had to deal with. I began to exhibit my works of art only in 2010 since I had never had the courage to do it before then.

I thought it looked like showing off! Instead, after a period of therapy when I finally  won  my  own  fears,  I  managed  to  initiate  an  intense  series  of  exhibitions.  I understood that communicating via art is an exchange which enhances both the author and the observer, in the same way my masters shaped and enriched my artistic path. At present, if I recall all the efforts and energy I put into finding the time to express myself as an artist, I feel I can continue asserting myself as a woman who can freely express her own artistic inclinations without giving away my family affections which for me (I imagine it is the same for many women) are likewise important.

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Curriculum

2020

Collettiva “Christmas Art Market” Ca’ Sagredo Hotel (VE), Dic. 2020

Collettiva “Donne del Vetro” Borgo degli artisti Bienno (BS), Ott.-Nov. 2020

Collettiva “Stendardi” Officine Forte Marghera (VE), Set.-Ott. 2020

Collettiva “Riflessioni e trasparenze” Pardes Mirano (VE), Set.-Nov. 2020

Collettiva “Festival Art’s Connection” Villa Heriot Isola della Giudecca (VE), Ago.-Ott. 2020

2019

Collettiva “Uomo, Terra, Infinito” Biblioteca Umanistica (MI), Ott. 2019

Collettiva “VITRUM” Rho Fiere (MI), Ott. 2019

Collettiva “Festival del vetro ediz. 2019” Palazzo Vendramin Calergi (VE), Giu.-Set. 2019

Collettiva “Tintoretto. Tra realtà e magia” Galleria Art.U. (VI), Apr. 2019

Collettiva di “Galleria La Telaccia, Torino” Art Innsbruck Fiere, (Austria), Gen. 2019

2018

Collettiva “”A new tourism model to give local residents a voice. Murano e Matera, Italy” Italian

Cultural Institute of Chicago (USA), Nov. 2018

Personale “In viaggio” Piazza dei Signori (VI), 14 Sett. – 13 Ott. 2018

Personale “Trasparenze” Campo S. Giovanni in Bragora (VE), Giu. Sett. 2018

Opera unica “Un nido di perle” Museo del Vetro di Murano (VE), Mag. Giu. 2018

Collettiva “Uni-versi 2018” Art Gallery Fadibè (ME), Mag. Giu. 2018

Collettiva “Periferie urbane-periferie umane” San Donato Milanese (MI), Gen.-Feb. 2018

Collettiva “Brothers in Art – Artisti dalla 57° Biennale d’arte di Venezia” Vicenza, Dic. 2017 – Gen.

2018

2017

Collettiva “Miro Persolja ospita A.Trevisan” 57° Biennale d’Arte di Venezia, Ca’Zenobio (VE), Nov.

2017

Collettiva “L’ombra del Moloch” a cura di A.R. Rossi, Palermo, Ott. 2017

Personale “Vita” Ca’ Zenobio, Venezia, Set. Ott. 2017

Collettiva “Charter” diretta da Giorgio Gregorio Grasso, Magazzini del Sale, Venezia, Mag.-Ago.

2017

Personale “Refectory”, Ca’ Zenobio, Padiglione Nazionale Armenia, 57° Biennale d‘Arte, Venezia, Mag.-Ott. 2017

Personale “Antonia Trevisan”, & Art Gallery, Vicenza, Mar. 2017

Collettiva “Mostra d’arte contemporanea e design” Palazzo Saluzzo, Genova, Mar. 2017

2016

Collettiva “Imago Misericordiae”Biblioteca Umanistica dell’Incoronata, Milano, Nov.-Dic. 2016

Personale “Donne inquiete – il teatro dei capelli” Winter hair concept, Trieste, Ott. 2016

Istallazione site specific “Restitution” 1° Biennale Arte Dolomiti, Cibiana di C. (BL) Mag. –Ott. 2016

Video intervista “Cicatrices” DI J. Ph. Assal e O. Horn, Genève (CH), Mag. 2016

Personale “Emersioni” Villa Thiene di A. Palladio, Quinto Vicentino (VI), Mag. – Giu. 2016

Collettiva ‘Remembering Henry James’, Biblioteca Civica Berno, Genova, Mag. 2016

Collettiva “Woman – Donna”, – Italia Arte – Museo MIIT, Torino, Mar. 2016

2015

Collettiva ‘Friends-Free ends’, Officina delle Zattere, Venezia, Dic. 2015

Personale “Vita”, Museo di Mineralogia Università di Trieste, Nov. 2015

Collettiva ‘Solanum Nichtshade-Piante della notte’, Orto botanico di Brera, Milano, Dic. 2015

Personale ‘Le erbe di Glauco’, Milano, Ott. 2015

Personale ‘Il profumo della luce’, Orto Botanico-Giardino dei Semplici, Firenze, Set. 2015

Personale ‘Bondless’, Magazen dell’Arte, Venezia, Lug.-Ago. 2015

Personale ‘La mia laguna’, Centro culturale Don Orione-Artigianelli, Venezia, Giu. 2015

Collettiva ‘Custodire il creato – coltivare l’umano’, Chiostro di San Lorenzo, Vicenza, Mag.-Giu.

2015

Opera unica ‘Un quadro al mese’, Ass. Cult. RO.SA.M-Artigianelli, Venezia, Apr.- Mag. 2015

Collettiva ‘Emozioni incancellabili’, Palazzo Valmarana-Braga, Vicenza, Mar. 2015

2014

Collettiva ‘Oltre il segno’, Palazzo Stella, Satura Art Gallery, Genova, Nov.-Dic. 2014

Collettiva ‘It is art that makes life’, Palazzo Pelagio, Firenze, Nov.-Dic. 2014

Collettiva ‘La dimora dei cronomi’, Museo civico S.Agostino, Genova, Ott.-Nov. 2014

Collettiva ‘Our doubt is our passion…’, Galleria 166A, Firenze, Giu.-Lug. 2014

Permanente ‘Saturno, non sempre dal Cuore Roccioso’, Osservatorio Astronomico di Genova,

2014

Personale ‘Dialogo a 3’, Galleria Punto Ottico, Vicenza, Giu.-Lug. 2014

Collettiva ‘Gradiva. Da opera a opera via Jensen-Freud’, Università di Milano, Mag. 2014

3a Biennale internazionale di Asolo (Tv), Convento SS. Pietro e Paolo, Mag.-Giu. 2014

Collettiva ‘… incontri. 3 Artisti in galleria’, Paola Bicego Gallery, Padova, Feb. 2014

2013

Personale Galleria Contrà Barche, Vicenza, Dic. 2013

Collettiva ‘Gruppo Boiler’, Galleria Calcagno Art Studio, Venezia, Nov.-Dic. 2013

Collettiva, Espace du Nouveau Vallon, Genève (CH), Nov. 2013

Collettiva ‘Galleggio Onda di Fiati’, Domus Ars, Napoli, Lug. 2013

Personale ‘L’arte della trasmutazione’, Ca’Bonvicini, Padiglione Nazionale Costarica, 55° Biennale d’Arte, Venezia, Mag.-Nov.2013

Collettiva ‘I merli hanno l’animo creativo’,Castello inferiore di Marostica (VI), Mar.- Apr. 2013

Collettiva ‘Donne inquiete’, Stazione Ferroviaria, Trieste, Mar.-Mag. 2013

Personale ‘Synaptic space’, Officina delle Zattere, Venezia, Mar.-Apr. 2013

Collettiva ‘La Cina che non conosci’, Circolo Arti Figurative, Empoli, Gen.-Feb. 2013

Personale ‘Selezione 2013’, Attico Summano, Schio (VI), Mar.-Mag. 2013

2012

Personale ‘Incontri d’acqua’, Galleria Immagine Colore, Genova, Lug. 2012

Collettiva ‘Emozioni’, Palazzo Albrizzi, Venezia, Giu.-Lug.. 2012

Collettiva ‘Sinfonie Cromatiche’, Scoletta S.G.Battista, Venezia, Giu. 2012

Personale ‘Omaggio a Marietta Tintoretto’, Chiostro Madonna dell’Orto, Venezia, Mag. 2012

Collettiva ‘Hangzhou-Immagine’, Museo Leonardesco di Vinci (FI), Mag. 2012

Collettiva ‘Hangzhou-Immagine’, Fortezza da Basso, Firenze, Apr.-Mag. 2012

Collettiva ‘Painting through the window’, Vetrine di Venezia, Apr. 2012

Collettiva ‘Transportation’, Biblioteca Civica, Breganze (VI), Gen.-Feb. 2012

2010-2011

Collettiva ‘Seguendo il cammino di Marco Polo’, Fond. Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia, Nov. 2011

Personale ‘11.11.11.’, La Vigna, Casa Gallo – App. Scarpa, Vicenza, Nov. 2011

Collettiva ‘Dalla parola all’arte libera’, Galleria Art.ù, Vicenza, Sett. 2011

Collettiva ‘Jesolo Arte’, Jesolo (Ve), Luglio – Sett. 2011

Residenza ‘100 Pittori sul cammino di Marco Polo’, EXPO Venezia, Hangzhou (Cina), Lug. 2011

Collettiva ‘Di generazione in generazione’, San Silvestro, Vicenza, Mag. – Giu. 2011

Collettiva ‘Riverberi di luce’, Casa dei Carraresi, Treviso, Mar. – Apr. 2011

Collettiva ‘Sentiero Segreto’, Spazio Misael, Vicenza, Dic. 2010 – Feb. 2011

Personale ‘Antonia Trevisan’, Fabbrica Saccardo, Schio (VI), Set. 2010

Personale ‘Tracce, l’ospitalità della materia’, San Silvestro, Vicenza, Mag.-Giu. 2010

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