Laura Cristinzio

Born in 1945

Italy

date of insertion in W.A.D. 12/2023

https://www.lauracristinzio.com/

Biography

I was born in Monteroduni in the province of Isernia and I live in Ercolano, home/studio.

After two years at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Naples Federico II, I completed my artistic training by graduating in sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples. I taught as a teacher/role pictorial disciplines in the Art High School of Salerno, Aversa and Naples from 1970 to 2003. For five years, from 1993 to 1998, I directed the Department of Image Communications of the Popular University of Portici, of which I was one of the founders.

I have been carrying out artistic activity since the 60s and the experiences I have had have been many and varied. I participated in the projects of the Koan group of associated sculptors and architects, F. Bocchino, G. Corbi, B. Galbiati, F. Zoleo. and organized the exhibition-debate “Ipotesi altri”, formulating three proposals for the Municipality of Portici on the themes of urban redevelopment with the development of projects strongly characterized by significant compositional elements of environmental art.

From 1987-88 my production took on a monumental scale, resulting in the creation, on commission, of complex site-specific installations.

In 1990 I created the Monument to the fallen Alfredo Notte, (bronze and travertine) on behalf of the Municipality of Macchiagodena (Isernia). Since 1993 some of my engravings have been part of the I twelve months collection, permanently in the Sannio Museum in Benevento.

Since 1995 the bronze work Metamorphosis 1 has been part of the Civic Museum of Contemporary Art of Patras in Greece,

In 1996 he took part in the National Competition, “The Hundred Squares of the Neighborhood”, in Rome, designing one of the nineteen squares in the competition, namely Piazzale Aldo Moro. Since 1996 one of his works, Controtempo, has been part of the permanent collection of Contemporary Art Museum of Casoria.

In 1998 I inaugurated my studio in Piazza Bellini, in the historic center of Naples, a meeting place for artists and critics, where I organize events and performances.

  I collaborated with the Robert Gordon University of Aberdeen (Scotland) in 1999, with a seminar on electroluminescent light and I was part of the international Artesign group with which I organized meeting and debate activities, as well as two exhibitions, at the Terzo Millennio Gallery in Milan and at the Duff House Gallery in Banff, Scotland. In 2000 he presented wearable sculptures, unique pieces in silver, methacrylate and electroluminescent fibers at the “Contemporary Decorative Arts Selling Exhibition” at Sotheby’s in London, at the invitation of Rachael Barraclough.

Two sculptural works, produced in the Wood Workshop 2000, are present in the Bokrijk Museum (Genk), Belgium.

In 2001 I competed for works of art to be allocated to the judicial offices of Salerno curated by Achille Bonito Oliva

In 2003 I founded the cultural association Arte da Mangiare Onlus of Naples, transformed in 2007 into ArteNapolidaMangiare, a non-commercial cultural association, thanks to which I organized and participated in exhibitions, events and round tables dedicated to the theme of food as an element of identity of the territory and art matter and in 2009, with the work Il Pozzo, I participated in the National Competition for the creation of works of art for the territory of the city of Portici. I have collaborated with several industrial companies as a corporate graphics designer. Since 2011 the Mistico plexigraphy has been exhibited at the ARCA Museum in Naples, in Santa Maria la Nova. In 2012 I participated in the Venice Biennale.

I continue my activity as a multifaceted artist with large works on an urban scale, including the stele for Pier Paolo Pasolini 2007 in Piazza Eratostene in Rome

Connecting the experiences of different trajectories is the path I have always pursued. The desire to represent the essence of nature and ideas led me to reduce the volumes and signs in my works to the essential and led me to express myself sometimes through stratifications using hot-forged transparent methacrylates, sometimes placing contrasting materials to opacity, weight and color, to enhance, in comparison, its transparency. The emotions are concise, they appear enclosed in deep signs, engraved on the transparent surfaces of the plates and mirrors. I use electroluminescent wires to create performances with methacrylate which becomes a significant and expressive element in the installations. The language that may apparently appear cold due to the use of industrial materials is not devoid of passion which is revealed and arises from a feeling full of intense emotions inspired by nature, by places full of history, by rediscovering, by traveling, by re -living to mark and enhance the sense of place and the ancient-contemporary relationship.

Curriculum

Curriculum

1970 V Art Exhibition of Southern Italy, Italian graphics, Palazzo Reale, Naples.

1972 VII Exhibition of new generation artists, Villa Pignatelli, Naples.

1975 X Quadrennial “The new generation”, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome.

1980 VI European Biennial, Strasbourg.

1981 XI Spring Review, Seville. European Autumn Salon, Paris.

1983 “Italian artists, contemporary drawing and graphics” Tokyo; “XIII Spring”, Bonn. 1987 “Sculptures and materials”, collective exhibition Centro Ellisse, Naples; “Homage to the sea”, National Railway Museum, Pietrarsa (Naples); “Operation/territory”, Castle of the Pignatelli princes, Monteroduni (Isernia).

1988 “Homage to Caravaggio”, Malta; “Art City” Naples; “Sea & Sea” I International Sea Biennial, curated by M. Venturoli Castel dell’Ovo, Naples.

1989 Itineraries of “Arte Città” edited by Luigi (Luca) Castellano, Pozzuoli, Ischia, Maschio Angioino, Naples.

1990 “InVento,” Dante Alighieri Society, Palazzo Reale, Naples; “Images for a dream” Palazzo Reale, Naples; Palazzo Barberini, Rome.

1991 “Engravings” the Laboratory, Nola copperplate workshop; Gutenberg Galaxy, Naples. “Traces”, cards designed by Laura Cristinzio, Libreria Feltrinelli, Naples.

1992 “Giordano Bruno Award” la Chiena di Campagna, Salerno; “Sculptures” Quentin Gallery, Perth (Australia); “Transits for a new city, other hypotheses”, Exhibition debate of the KOAN group, Portici (Naples).

1993 “Stari Most”, traveling exhibition curated by Caritas International; “The twelve months of the year”, Sannio Museum, Benevento.

1994 “Neapolitan Aspects” graphics exhibition, Istituto Superiore del Design, Naples; “Art… you will have no other goddess” Il Prato dei Miracoli Gallery, Pisa; MIART, Novegro Exhibition Park, Milan; “The Inventausos, bronze objects”, Studio Bellavista, Naples.

1995 “Sculptures” Kontraste contemporary art gallery, Forte dei Marmi; “Signs of the Time” Polidarte, Spoleto; “Drawings”, Process Space Festival, Sofia (Bulgaria). “Marechiaroscuro” Gallerie A come Arte, Naples; The Observatory, Pozzuoli; “Contemporary Italian artists”, Municipal Art Gallery, Patras (Greece); “Napolinovantacinque”, Studio 10, Chur (Switzerland).

1996 Process Space Festival, Sofia (Bulgaria). “Art + City”, Kelten Keller Gallery, Zurich; “New hypotheses”, Gnaccarini Art Gallery, Artissima, Turin; “The Carousel of Time/The Sense of Place”, Officine Pelli, Naples.

1997 “Segni del tempo”, scenic event-installation, for Riccardo Held, Teatro di Villa Patrizi, Naples; “De/Frazioni” installation-performance, Elafonissi, Crete; Kissamos, Crete (Greece); “Written in the Dust,” Ospedale della Pace, Naples.

1997 “Paths of Light” Popolare University, Portici (Naples).

1998 “Assonanze & Contrasti” Monogramma Arte Contemporanea Gallery, Rome; “Involucri di Luce”, Performance in Piazza Bellini, Naples; “Sculptures” Kontrast contemporary art gallery, Pietrasanta (Lucca).

1999 “Signs and colors against the mafia” Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome; “Sculptures,” Kontraste contemporary art gallery, Pietrasanta (Lucca); Zammarchi Gallery, Milan; “80055 collective AREA” Villa Savonarola, Portici (Naples); “Room with a view” Terzo Millennio Gallery, Milan; Artesign Group, R. Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland; “The Sacred Forest of Art” Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples; “Art Brut,” international traveling exhibition, National Railway Museum, Pietrarsa (Naples).

1999 “Installation” Duff House, Country House Gallery, Banff, Scotland.

2000 “Contemporary Decorative Arts Selling Exhibition” Sotheby’s, London; Workshop Wood 2000, Bokrijk Museum (Genk), Belgium, “The colors of music,” curated by Ela Caroli, former Agricultural Consortium, Bellizzi, Salerno.

2001 “The shapes of women” Piazza Plebiscito, Naples.

2002 “Artist’s bookmark” Villa Bruno, S. Giorgio a Cremano (Naples); Politeama Gallery, Rome; “Dark & Light” San Giorgio Gallery, Naples.

2003 “Art to eat” design on the table, Macef, Milan; “Homage to Trilussa” Piazzetta Trilussa, Rome; “Più Rosso x Luca, homage to Luca Castellano” Villa Comunale, Portici (Naples).

2003 “La Germination” S. Maria La Nova, Naples; “Lievitazione” multimedia performance, with A. Davide and A. Oste, S. Maria la Nova, Naples “Azione Collaterale” Politeama Gallery, Rome. “Bitter rice” multiple installation, Palazzo Ducale, Sessa Aurunca (Caserta); “Practical Darkness and Light of Desire”, Umanitaria Renaissance Complex, Milan.

2004 “Cratere” performative installation, Museum of Natural Sciences, Milan; Cloister of S. Francesco, Prato; “Elios Elaion, art-culture-food”, Chamber of Commerce, Naples; “Civiltà Flegrea – Traces”, Bacoli (Naples); “Il Vino errante” installation and performance by L. Cristinzio and C. Viparelli, Palazzo Reale, Portici (Naples); “Wandering Memory”, Milos Gallery of the Italian Cultural Institute, Thessaloniki, Greece; “Evoking sensations” performative installation, Tenuta la Villanella, Massa Lubrense.

2005 “Light as a sign of wine”, installation-performance, Archaeological Museum, Spoleto; “Nuces vocamus et castaneas… quae tanto occultaverit cura naturae”, Montella (Avellino); “Locus Nascendi”, video-performance, Miglio d’Oro Park Hotel, Ercolano (Naples); “Video-performance” as part of the Studi Aperti initiative, the artist’s atelier, via Costantinopoli, Naples; “City of women” City of Science, Naples; “Aurum/Olei” Council Hall of the Municipality, Sorrento; “Structure/object” Belvedere of San Leucio, Caserta; “Castanea The Castagna in iron and fire”, exhibition of artists’ books, Montella (Avellino); “Sometimes together” Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Naples.

2006 “FuocOVitale”, exhibition/event, Virtual Archaeological Museum, Ercolano (Naples); “Aqua”, video installation for “le Domeniche di Repubblica”, Villa Campolieto, Ercolano (Naples); “Metaphors and Allusions” Bersani Art Gallery, Capri; “Clues of depth” performance, as part of the Studi Aperti initiative, the artist’s atelier, via Costantinopoli, Naples.

2007 “Art and design exhibition” as part of the Studi Aperti initiative, the artist’s atelier, via Costantinopoli, Naples. “Donne Except 4,” Palazzo Crispi, Naples; Villa Signorini, Herculaneum (Naples).

2009 “Communicating Faces”, Palazzo Reale Portici (Naples); “Light Impressions 09”. TerreBlu LAB Gallery, Caserta.

2009/2010 “The lights and the stone” curated by Giuseppe Coppola, Belvedere di San Leucio, Caserta; “Terre blu landscapes”, Belvedere Palace of San Leucio, Caserta.

2010 “Untuffonelvino” Castel dell’Ovo, Naples.

2011/2012 “The State of the Art – Regions of Italy” 54th Venice Biennale, Pontecagnano (Naples); “Memories of the future. The civil responsibility of the artist” personal exhibition by Laura Cristinzio and Elio Mazzella, ARCA Museum, Santa Maria la Nova, Naples.

2011 “The Blind Body” The MUSE Ancient Convent of the Holy Spirit, Pellezzano (Salerno).

2015 “Venustas”, Light as Aluminium, COMEL Vanna Migliorini contemporary art award, Latina; “Last find”, MAN National Archaeological Museum of Naples curated by Mariantonietta Picone Petrusa.

2018 “Collecting light… it is the poetry of a place”, Momu Molino Museo, Montenero Val Cocchiara (IS).

2018 “Beyond the Cloister… light in the signs of the times”, Santa Maria la Nova Monumental Complex – Naples curated by Mimma Sardella.

2019 “Art and the city”, curated by Antonella Nigro and Nando Calabrese, PAN Palazzo delle Arti Naples.

2019 “Artists and their musical icons”, PAN Palazzo delle Arti Naples.

2022 “Terranova Arte Natura”, Andrea Nuovo Home Gallery, Monte di Dio, Naples.

2022 “Revealed – Women in Art”, Academy of Fine Arts, Naples.

2022/2023 “Francesco, the sense of wonder”, XXXIV Porticato Gaetano, Municipal Art Gallery of Contemporary Art, Gaeta.

2023 XI Biennial of Contemporary Italian Engraving Domenico Fratianni Palazzo GIL – Campobasso.

Monuments and installations

1969 “Trilogy”, Almerigo de Angelis collection, Milan.

1980 “Idea Primigenia”, San Benedetto del Tronto, private collection A. Scioli.

1988 “Hymn to Life”,Loc. I Quinti (Isernia), private collection G. Scioli.

1988 “Good/Male”, Church of S. Pietro, Portici (Naples).

1988 “Vis a tergo”, private collection Francesco Serao, Naples

1990 “Monument to the fallen Alfredo Notte”, Macchiagodena (Isernia);

1995 “Metamorphosis 1”, Patras (Greece).

1996 “Controtempo” CAM Contemporary Art Museum, Casoria.

1996 “Irreproducible traits”, private collection A. Tartaglia, Naples.

1996 “Canna in/blue”, private collection Antonio Varriale, Caserta.

1997 “Reprint”, Naples, private collection Leonardo Tartaglia, Naples.

2008 “Iter Ferratum and Intra Craterem”, Bartolo Longo Station of the Circumvesuviana railway, Naples.

2007 “Stele in memory of Pier Paolo Pasolini”, Piazza Eratostene, Rome.

2014 “Ianua”, Resort Il San Cristoforo, Ercolano.

2015 “Vorago”, Resort Il San Cristoforo, Ercolano.

Critical texts by:

Amnon Barzell, Enzo Battarra, Michele Bonuomo, Angelo Calabrese, Luigi Caramiello, Luigi Castellano, Giuseppe Coppola, Vitaliano Corbi, Nino D’Antonio, Almerigo De Angelis, W. Fischer, Nicoletta Hristodorescu, Arcangelo Izzo, Rino Mele, Riccardo Notte, Rachele Nunziata, Maja Pacifico, Bruna Peroni, Mariantonietta Picone Petrusa, Filomena Sardella, Iolanda Petrobelli, Rosario Pinto, Ilaria Schiaffini, Angelo Trimarco, Vincenzo Trione, Marcello Venturoli