Emanuela Camacci

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

Born in 20/12/1968

Italy

www.emanuelacamacci.com

Biography

Emanuela Camacci, born in Rome, has loved to draw and create objects with paper and recycled materials since she was a child. Already in elementary school, she experimented with the art of ceramics, modeling clay and personally participating in the firing of her first works.

When she was twelve years old she discovered Etruscan sculpture in terracotta and bronze and was so fascinated by it that she still draws ideas for her work from this style.

She graduated from Art School in Arezzo, then enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome in the Sculpture section. With the continuous desire to learn and experiment with new techniques, she also attended courses in engraving, woodcutting and intaglio printmaking. After graduating, she also undertook training in mosaic art at the laboratory of Costantino Buccolieri, where she worked for three years.

Currently, in her studio in Rome, she dedicates herself to sculpture, installations and land art projects. She has participated in numerous temporary exhibitions, such as Segni, a contemporary art exhibition in Turin in 2012, and in artistic interventions of land art in Italy and the world. This includes the GNAP Italy – Global Nomedic Art Project in 2019. Her work also has appeared in many international residencies, such as the Sculpture Symposium in Santiago, Chile in 2017 and the Atoo International Artist in South Korea in 2018. In 2017 she created a sculpture for Hofheim Square in Tanus, Germany.
She had a crucial experience in Turkey in 2017, where she created ephemeral installations of environmental art together with a group of artists.

The creation of all Emanuela Camacci’s works starts from drawing, both when she plans and when she represents visions and images to which she gives form; for monumental constructions she also makes models in clay, to study their integration and relationship with the surrounding space.

Among the materials privileged to give shape to her ideas are stone, wood and clay. However, she also loves to experiment with other media, such as iron and paper, in relation to the purpose and location of the works, even using natural elements.
Her creative research, intertwined with emotional, physical and sensory experience, stops only when she manages to reach the visual rhythm of the composition and the sense of harmony in all aspects of the work.
In the sculptures made for outdoor environments, such as parks or gardens, emerges the ability to give essential and abstract forms to stone, both as an organic element, and by crossing it with minimal geometric elements. In such works, she applies a careful and refined use of different surfaces and textures, which are changeable depending on the light; these unique works always differ from each other in their tactile rendering.

In the recent series “Empty Cities” Camacci offers a significant contrast: the geometric shapes finished with perfectly smooth surfaces, symbolizing the perfection and cultural persistence of ancient architecture, contrast with shapeless elements made with rough and scratched textures, representing the organic and irrational part of the world and opposition that leaves a sense of unease, with a reference to metaphysical painting.

In recent years, the artist has also been dedicated to interventions and installations in nature, looking for and collecting plant elements and then combining them with a lyrical and poetic expressiveness, from which love for the natural universe emerges—a strong connection present since the artist’s childhood. Color thus enters the creation and lights up with the greens of the vegetation. The works also shine with the colors of artistic tradition, such as the purples on the barks of trees and Titian red combined with the whites of shells.
All these creative elements gave rise to the series of works called “Urban Nature” in 2020, with a language of great power. Here the technique moves from experience as a mosaicist, overcome by the artist with a fragmentation of the rock that creates splinters that seem to become organic, come alive and vibrate between light and shadow, building large compositions. They are positive images of hope, as from the fragmentation of a static and lifeless world comes a “modern” nature that transmits strength and vitality.

All who have the opportunity to observe the works of Emanuela Camacci is transported into a universe where the harmony and balance of forms and surfaces speak of respect for the environment, living or inanimate, in relationship with man and his space.
Hers is an essential language in which the strength of sculpture knows how to conjugate the poetry of nature, where the links with poor art are mixed with elements of ancient culture and emotional, cultural and cognitive experiences merge in a deep and passionate look at the world.

This is how the artist creates new forms and poetic synthesis between matter and life.

Curriculum

EMANUELA CAMACCI CV
Nata il 20/12/1968, vive e lavora a Roma

www.emanuelacamacci.com

TITOLI DI STUDIO
Diploma di Accademia di Belle Arti, sezione scultura, Roma 1990

SELEZIONE DI ESPOSIZIONI
2019 – “QUOTIDIANA BELLEZZA arte, cultura, paesaggio”. Artetica. Italia – Museo Archeologico di Villanovaforru (VS) Artetica – Carnago, Chiesa San Rocco, Varese. Abaco, Artetica
2018 – CAVA. Fondazione Arkad, Seravezza (Lucca). Italia
2015 – Biennale di Soncino, Castello sforzesco, Soncino (CR)
2014 – Casalmaggiore contemporanea (CR)
2014 – Schulpturenladschaft, small monuments. Amburgo, Germania
2012 – Segni, Rassegna d’arte contemporanea. InGenio Arte Contemporanea, Torino
2012 – BIC – 1erè Biennal Internationale de Art contemporain Casablanca, Marocco
2012 – «European Sculpture – methods, materials and poetry » Edsvik Konsthall gallery, Stockolm, Svezia
2010 – Personale « tracce », Galleria Artetica, Roma
2009 – anaspace. Lana (Bolzano)
2009 – “Die Andere Halfte”, Galerie Freihausgasse, Villach, Austria
2009 – Smallmonument 2. SkulpturenLandschaft , Amburgo, Germania
2008 – Sculpture in Context. Dublino, Irlanda
2007 – Exhibition 5Sculptors, Praga, Republica Ceca
2004 – ‘Alta temperatura’. Città di Castellamonte,TO
2004 – Project M4. Installationi artistiche a Schawbmünchen, Germania
2004 – “Lo scarto come materia”. Arkad, Seravezza
2001 – “Terra Sostantivo Femminile’. Vietri sul Mare. Curatore E. Biffi Gentile
2001 – LACUSTRE Installation – Intervention plastique au Lac de Montbel. Cat’Art ,Francia

ESPERIENZE PROFESSIONALI
2020 – Simposio Internacional de escultura – Arte y Tradiciòn. Santa Ana, Costa Rica Next!
2019 – SKULPTUR – LICHTUNG 7. International Kunstdunger e.v. Sculpture Symposium Valley. Germania
2019 – 1st Simposio di Arte ambientale in Sardegna “Quotidiana bellezza”. Directore artistico di
Artetica. Italia
2019 – V. International Sculpture Symposium Litomerice. Litomerice, Republia Ceca
2019 – GNAP Italy. Global Nomadic Art Project. Curatore S.Devoti. Yatoo Art Center Corea del Sud
2018 – Simposio Internazionale di Scultura a Orsomarso. Italy
2018 – 9. Internationaler Waldkunstpfad – »Kunst Ökologie« “Green Benches”
2018 – 2° Simposio internazionale per scultori del legno, Silandro (BZ)
2018 – YATOO International Artist in Residence Program 2018
2017 – PORTIZMIR4 Contemporary Art Triennial. GNAP “in the trace of nature”
2017 – 5° Simposio di scultura in legno. Praso (TN)
2016 – Scultura per il MAAM, Museo dell’altrove. Città Metropoliz. Curatore G.De Finis. Roma
2016 – 3er Simposio Internacional de escultura Nuestros Parques. Santiago del Cile, collocato a
Canaán, comune di Pudahuel.
2016 – Muro d’artista e scultura work in progress. Sculturaper il porto di Cetraro (CS)
2016 – Scultura per il parco pubblico di Tsooru. Art college di Tartu. Tsooru, Estonia
2016 – Symposium de sculpture en Pierre giffre de Samoens. 7°ed. Francia
2015 – Wood sculpture Symposium. Kemijarvi, Finlandia
2014 – Landart al Furlo. Casa degli artisti, S.Anna del Furlo, Pesaro
2013 – Vincitrice del concorso per opera d’arte schema 2%, scultura da realizzare per una scuola elementare del Comune di Roma
2013 – Simposio di scultura, Hofheim Am Tanus, Germania
2013 – Symposium de la Pierre, Luneville. Francia
2012 – Residenza per artisti Ifitry Essaouira, Marocco
2012 – Simposio di scultura “Live” – Roma
2011 – Simposio Internazionale trachite stone, Fordongianus, Italia
2011 – 5-th International Art Symposium ALANICA, Ossezia del Nord, Russia
2011 – 1st Eco- healing and International Art Festival, Daejon, Corea
2010 – 13° simposio internazionale su pietre del Friuli V.G. (Udine)
2010 – IV Simposio di Scultura_LIVE 2010 (Pescopennataro, Isernia)
2008 – 3° Premio concorso d’idee per opera d’arte. Comune di Mori, TN
2007 – SkulpturenLandschaft , Hamburg, Germania
2007 – “Cartasia”. Lucca
2006 – Int. stone sculpture symposium – ANKARA UNIVERSITESI. Turchia
2006 – Int.sculpture symposium. Dokuma Modern Art Museum. Antalya.Turchia
2006 – Simmpetra. International sculpture symposium, Portogallo
2005 – Int. Sculture Symposium, Comune di Dettelbach, Germania
2003 – Residenza per artisti a Kunststation Kleinsassen, Germania
2002 – Sculptura per il Campu universitario Yüzüncü Yil University di Van, Turchia.
2002 – LanaArt. Sculpture Meeting in Carinzia, Austria
2001 – 1° premio, concorso d’idee per un’opera d’arte per il cimitero Flaminio, Roma
2001 – Int. Marble meeting. C.E.M.A.F. Fines, Spagna
2000 – ‘Artessier’. Sculpture Park. Drumondville, Quèbec
2000 – 1° Premio, International Sculpture Symposium. Ma’alot Tarshiha, Israele
1999 – Biennal of sculpture. Comblain-au-Pont, Belgio
1999 – II° Biennal of sculpture. Aubazine, Francia
1998 – Vincitrice del concorso per opera d’arte schema 2%, scultura realizzata per la Caserma dei Vigili del Fuoco, Montesacro est, Roma
1998 – Simposio int.di scultura in granito Larvik, Norvegia