Ines Fontenla

Born in 1958

Argentina

https://inesfontenla.idra.it/

date of inserition in W.A.D. 12/2022

Biography

I was born in Buenos Aires, where I started my artistic studies and then continued them thanks to scholarships in Madrid, Siena and Rome.

In my work I have tried to express my concerns and interests in the problems of our time: social and environmental conflicts, migration.

Being a “migrant” from Latin America”, where my family of origin had come from Europe, I have always kept my Argentine roots where I often return.

I have made several works in which I tell this intense experience of the migrant, always trying that this autobiographical dimension transcends my private life to reach a wider existential dimension.

Twenty years ago, I dealt with environmental issues, creating works that speak of the relationship of the human being with nature. I tried to express how important it is to create a harmonious environment between the human being and the natural environment in which we live, together with the earth, plants and animals.

I often create multimedia installations using different techniques, according to the concept of the work, I try to subordinate the technique and materials to be used to the idea I want to express.

I try not to offer answers or certainties but rather questions, I would like my works to be an invitation to reflect.

Curriculum

Selection of solo exhibitions

2022 – Milan – NuovaGalleriaMorone “I passi perduti”

2015 -Rome – Macro Museum of Contemporary Art “Albedo”

2012 – Buenos Aires- Centro Cultural Recoleta “Requiem Terrae curated by Patricia Rizzo

2011- Rome – Deconsecrated Church of San Filippino “Requiem Terrae” curated by Lucrezia Cippiteli.

2009 – Rome – Studio Lovels curated by Chiara Marsi

2008 – Berlin – ArtMmbassy Gallery, “Tis not too late seek a newer world” curated by Nicole Loeser

2006 – Belgrade – Palazzo Italia “The Ulysses Syndrome” curated by Pino Casagrande

2004 – Rome – Studio d’arte contemporanea Pino Casagrande, “Derive” curated by Angela Madesani.

2003 – Genoa – Galleria Leonardi-V- idea, “Alla fine delle utopie”, curated by Viana Conti.

2002 – Rome – Museo laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea, Università “La sapienza” Roma, “Alla fine delle utopie” curated by Simonetta Lux

2000 – Rome – Studio d’arte contemporanea Pino Casagrande, “Atlantide” curated by Cecilia Casorati

1998 – Buenos Aires – Centro Cultural Recoleta, “Más alla de las columnas de Hércules”, curated by A. M. Battistozi, A. Petrina

1997 – Buenos Aires – Galeria Filo “Tierra incognita”, curated by Cecilia Casorati

1995 – Rome – Gallery “Spazioltre”, “Terra inquieta” curated by Anna Cochetti and Viana Conti

1990 – Rome – Centro Luigi di Sarro, curated by Barbara Tosi

Selection of group exhibitions

Rome, Villa Borghese, Bilotti Museum, Art and Nature. Bassano in Teverina, Parco Internazionale di Scultura Contemporanea, curated by C. Biasini Selvaggi, A. Dambruoso and R. Gramicia. Genova, Pazzo Ducale, Biennale Le Latitude de’Arte, curated by Viana Conti. Romano di Lombardia, Palazzo della Ragione “Chronos” curated by Angela Madesani. Rome, Macro Museum of Contemporary Art, “Art and Politics” curated by Costantino D’Orazio. Milan, Nuova Galleria Morone “Urpflanze” curated by Alberto Matia Martini. Venice, Isola della Certosa “Natura-snaturae” curated by Angela Madesani. Genoa, Museum of Contemporary Art “Nostalgia, the instante the duration of time” curated by Angela Madesani. Genazano, Centro Internazionale per l’Arte Contemporanea ” Memoria 2″ curated by Claudio Pisani and Federica Lapaglia. Rome, Galleria D. Diamante, “Moebius”, curated by Micol De Veroli.  Campobaso, University of Molise, “Aratro” curated by Lorenzo Canova. Milan, Cascina Roma “Il viaggio di Eva”, curated by Angela Madesani. Buenos Aires, Museo de la Inmigración” Puerto 2005″ curated by Ana Maria Battistozi.  Wisbaden, Kunstverein Bellevue Sall, “Ahnung und gegenwart” curated by Ulrich Meyer-Husman.  Genoa, Palazzo della Borsa, “Medesigna, forme del Mediterraneo” curated by Viana Conti.  Rome, Istituto Italo-Latinoamericano,” Neruda” curated by Irma Arestizabal.  Brussels, “Justus Lipzius” Palace, seat of the Council of Ministers of the European Union, “Charters” by Lucilla Presilla.  Landau, Villa Streccius “Luft-stucke lund Stadt-Teil” curated by J. Katelendar. Stockholm, Vasby Centrum “Forme di pensiero” curated by Paolo Aita. Buenos Aires, Centro Cultural Borges “Autorretrato” curated by Irma Arestizabal. Jakarta, Indonesian Nasional Museum, “Forms of Thought” curated by Paolo Aita. Francavilla, Michetti Prize curated by Carlo Fabrizio Carlo. Genoa, Palazzo della Borsa “L’occhio in ascolto” curated by Viana Conti.  Celano, XV International Triennial of Sacred Art curated by C. F. Carli. Brussels, Espace Senghor curated by Miche Diusaert. Ostende, Loesveld Gallery. Brugges, Sainhalle “Ontomoeting” curated by Miche Diusaert. Copenhagen, Kulturfonden “Under different Skies” curated by K. Alkafat. Spoleto, Gallery of Modern Art “Disgregante-Agregante” curated by Anna Cochetti.  Milan, Palazzo Durini “Inmaginaria 92”. Latina, Palazzo della Cultura “Discanto” curated by Paolo Balmas.  Ferrara, Milan, Rome “Artae” curated by Achille Bonito Oliva. Rosetto degli Abruzzi “Octeto for painting and sculpture” by Lorenzo Mango.