Maria Irene Vairo

Born in 1965

Italy

date of insertion in W.A.D. 06/2022

Biography

Born in 1965 in Piaggine in the Cilento Park, I have always been passionate about artistic expression, struck by the mountain landscapes and the colors of nature; I started like children to draw and color with spirit colors and pastels. Later, already from middle school, I deepened the technique of figurative oil painting and followed some remote lessons on the subject, through the De Agostini Geographical Institute, which I then left out, dedicating myself  to  deepen  my studies  of  architecture  in  Naples,  studying  on  site,  which  I completed  in  1995.

The experience of Naples made me absorb the colors of the city and their shades. During high school I created oil paintings in which I moved away from the figurative, giving the subjects a more synthetic expression. After graduating in architecture, I got married and moved to Salerno, where I had two daughters. Over the years, I have developed various projects in the field of interiors renovations, without leaving the most purely artistic expression, dedicating myself to pastels on cardboard and works with poor materials and also various collages or mixed media works even with waste materials ; I also studied clay modeling and cold glazing. I specialized in architectural and urban  design  and  perfected  in  landscape  architecture,  doing  projects  from  small  to  large  scale.

I  began  to participate in various exhibitions in Italy and abroad ( Paris, Barcelona, Innsbruck, London ),creating larger works, in which I was inspired by the masters of contemporary art, such as Pollock, Picasso, Klee, Rauschenberg, others, always trying to keep my artistic line. Going forward I enriched myself with the history of the city of Salerno and its colors, experimenting with ceramics, although not particularly interested in its technique, in addition to that I like to restore small objects and revive pieces and parts of waste objects, decorate bottles in glass and other elements of everyday life, which become real artistic objects.

The study of the small size fascinates me, thus giving vent to the creation of bijoux, which I carry on together with the research between painting and experimental mixed techniques. I like to communicate and collaborate with other architects and / or artists with whom  you  show  empathy.  I  am  also  interested  in  environmental  art  and  its  possible  declinations,  up  to architecture, of which Le Corbusier has always fascinated me for its soft line, Alvar Aalto for the warmth of the materials and the slight organicism, Deconstructivism for the its subversive charge.

Curriculum

CURRENT ACADEMIC POSITION

Freelance architect and contract professor Unina

EDUCATION

2005 – perfected in garden architecture and landscaping.

2003 – specialized in architectural and urban design.

1995 – degree in architecture.

EXHIBITIONS

2021

Virtual exhibition with the Mexican gallery owner Deborah Lewinson in Monumentos y

Arquitectura Importantes en el Mundo.

Collective Attraction in Wikiarte Gallery curated by Pietro Franca.

2020

Permanent works at the Accorsi Arte Gallery in Turin.

Italian Gallery of Parma in “Parma Italian capital of culture” with the art critic Giorgio

Grasso, in June-July.

Exhibition Oltre in Gallery Wikiarte Bologna curated by Francesca Bogliolo.

2019 – Collective Nature in Art at Chie Art Gallery in Milan.

Collective exhibition at Wincity with Giorgio Grasso and Simona Trivisonno in Milan Collective in Area Contesa Arte in Rome curated by Tiziana Monoscalco presented by Mario Salvo.

2017

Forlì Fair Friarte Pavilion – Catalog Masters of the 20th century yesterday and today. Profiles of contemporary artists – Comparisons of Contemporary Artists.

Expo Bologna VII edizione Gallery Wikiarte in Bologna

(with a presentation by Gian Ruggero Manzoni).

2014

Collective painting Equilibri – Chie Art Gallery Milan – July 2014. Energheia Collective – Chie Art Gallery Milan – November 201.

2013

Padua Fair 2013 with Art Gallery Santa Teresa di Loreta Larkina.

Collective exhibition with the Accademia dei Partenopei entitled Colori Liberi Church of S. Maria delle Periclitanti Naples – 23 March-23 April 2013.

Preparation and participation in the collective exhibition Frammenti at the Punto Einaudi

Library in Salerno – September 2013.

2012

Works on display 2011-2012 at Galleria Giò Art Lucca Via dell’Anfiteatro, 65.

Forlì Fair 2012 with Artexpò Gallery by Francesco Chetta.

2011

Collective “Aracne” – march 2011- Galleria Primo Piano Living Gallery Lecce curated by

Dores Sacquegna.

Collective Personale 5 in Monteoliveto Gallery in Naples presented by Christian Iorio

Spazio Arte images in Cremona.

Collective exhibition at AmArtGallery Brussels.

Collective 30×30 Bingo numbers of Neapolitan art at the MUSEAAV in Nice with Galleria

Monteoliveto.

2010

Collective Hidden Faces in Primo Piano Living Gallery in Lecce curated by Dores

Sacquegna.

Spring Collective Grand Format April 2010-Monteoliveto Gallery.

Collective exhibition Smar’t Aix en Provence-Monteoliveto Gallery.

PUBLICATIONS

2018

Publication on the CAC series Contemporary art by Marc Chagall to date in the Women in

Art section curated by Arpinè Sevagian 2018.2017.

Publication in Arsev magazine “The gardens of Art between charm and reality from Arshile

Gorky to today” 2017 with presentation by Araxi Ipekjian.

Publication in the “L’Elite New 2017” Catalog with an introduction by Philippe Daverio

Artesalerno Catalog 2017 International Contemporary Art Award.

2015

Effetto Arte magazine directed by Paolo Levi Jan / Feb. 2015. Publication of the Artisi Catalog in the History of Josè Van Roy Dalì

2014

Yearbook “Protagonists of Art 2014 – Painting, Sculpture and Graphics” editorial initiative curated by Paolo Levi.

2012

Artistic Avant-gardes 2012 publisher of Centro Diffusione Arte.

Catalog “International Academy of Artistic Avant-gardes” Art Diffusion Center Catalog III Volume “Between tradition and innovation – European artists not to be forgotten” edited by prof. Rosario Pinto 2013 ”sent and archived at the Thomas J.Watson Library of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

2011

Catalog “The Great Masters” Centro Diffusione Arte 2011

Boè Magazine Jan. Feb. 2011

2010

Art and Collectibles 2010.

Boè Magazine Jan. February 2010

2009

Catalog of Mondadori Modern Art no.45. CRITICISM

In the artistic field he still had, among others, the criticism of the  italian writer Rubina Giorgi, spanish critic J.L.Montanè, dr. D.Marasà, d.ssa Maria Teresa Prestigiacomo, of the painter Alfonso Grassi in Salerno in Review Arte in Cammino and d.ssa Raffaella Grassi.

Lately she has been selected as an Italian artist and published free in the Italy 35×35 Art

Project 2021 Catalog by Copelouzos Family Art Museum.

Her works permanently in the Accorsi Arte Gallery in Turin, with which he participated in exhibitions in Innsbruck in 2021.

Paolo Levi with presentation in “Protagonists of Art 2014” – E.Leli pupil S. Terruso. C. Montarsuolo Neapolitan artist – C. Costantini Florentine artist pupil O.Kokoscha.

STAY IN MUSEUMS:

2014

Donation to the Allotropya Museum in Antikiya Greece on presentation of the First Floor

Living Gallery – “Drink Helleborus“ Project.

2013

Artist archived in the Thomas G. Watson Library of the Metropolitan Museum of New York with review by prof. Rosario Pinto in the Volume European artists not to be forgotten.

Websites: Artmajeur – Saatchigallery- Artelista – Gheoart- Lub Art – ArtVernissage.ArtgalleryMilano – ArtsLant – ACLA – Comanducci – Galleria Milanese.

AWARDS

2022 – Alfonso Grassi Academy of Salerno Poetry Prize.

2022 – Special recognition of the Jury for painting Accademia Alfonso Grassi of Salerno.

2019 – Vasco De Gama Award-Lisbon Art-Contemporary Art International Exhibition.

2019 – Picasso Art Paris Award – Espace Thorigny Le Marais Paris curated by Prince

.Group Artetra.

2018 – Second place Sculpture section of the Alfonso Grassi Academy of Salerno.

2011- City of Tokyo Art Diffusion Center Award 2011.

CURATOR ACTIVITY

She is also curator of solo / collective exhibitions:

2022 – Form and Matter Collective – Salerno historic center restoration laboratory.

2021 – Informal Contemporary Collective Exhibition – at the Daedalus Association in the historic center of Salerno.

2021 – Collective Exhibition Mixarte – at the Daedalus Association in the historic center of

Salerno.

2021 – Collective January Elements – at the Daedalus Association in the historic center of

Salerno.

2021/2020 – selector of artists in Galleria Milanese website.

2020 – Natallesting-Art 2020 – at the Daedalus Association in the historic center of Salerno

2019 – Passage in the Lagoon of Venice – Gallery Art Studio Loreta Larkina.

2019 – Informal Art Today – Chie Art Gallery in Milan.

2019 – Collective Grafimateria – Spazioporpora Milan. GalleryIi

2019 – Collective Ricercarte – Chie Art Gallery in Milan.

2019 – Geometry in Art – Chie Art Gallery in Milan

2019- Collective Exhibition Nature in Art in Chie Art Gallery in Milan

2018 – Collective Water Forms – Gallery Art Studio Loreta Larkina.

2018 – Inside Art – Salerno historic center restoration laboratory.

2018 – Collective Young Art – Marte Caffè Gallery.

2018 – Collective Exhibition Hashtag – Chie Art Gallery in Milan

2018 – Collective Zoo Art – Chie Art Gallery in Milan.

2016 – Collective Concept- Chie Art Gallery in Milan.

2016 – Giuseppe Ribechi – with the Daedalus Association in the historic center of Salerno

2016 – Solo Exhibition: Athanasia Karatza – at the Daedalus Association in the historic center of Salerno.

2016 – Solo Exhibition: Playing with life – Gabriel Gavioli – Daedalus Association in the historic center of Salerno.

2015 – Collective Restructurarte – Chie Art Gallery in Milan.

2014/2015 – Collective “Absurde” – Chie Art Gallery in Milan

2014 – Energheia – Chie Art Gallery in Milan.

2014 – Collective Sottosopra – Chie Art Gallery in Milan.

2014 – Equilibri – Chie Art Gallery in Milan.