Donatella Izzo
Italy
5 Works exhibited on Kooness
Current location
Milan, Italy
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Works by Donatella Izzo
Donatella Izzo was born in 1979 and is one of the most interesting artists in the emerging Italian scene. She began her career devoting herself to painting, but soon photography became the privileged medium with which she builds an entire iconographic paradigm, rich in symbolism and metaphors, totally divorced from any didactic intent.
As an uneasy and passionate author, with her images she wants to induce the user to rediscover past moods and atmospheres. Her language is composed, elegant but extremely determined. Her photographs are an exemplary transposition of the torment and conflict that characterize his inner condition.
In her latest project No-Portraits, her great aesthetic mastery and photographic medium are evident. The artist's attention is in all phases of the work, from pre-production to production and post-production. The photography becomes only the last piece of an artistic sequence that includes interventions such as painting, collage and abrasion.
The focus of the project is on new reading codes that crumble the classical concept of portrait as a "copy" in favor of an "anti-portrait", that is an introspective analysis of the depicted subject, almost always female, a universe from which Izzo is inspired and to which she gives particular attention. Women suspended in a sacred instant, almost non-interpretable, but still alive because aesthetically reshaped.
Donatella Izzo has participated in collective exhibitions both in Italy and abroad: Angel Orensanz Foundation (New York, 2013), Fabbrica del Vapore (Milan, 2015) Among the personal exhibitions: Galeria Fotografi Miasta (Polonia- Rzeszòw, 2014), Akashi Gallery ( Barcelona, 2014), Espacio 8 (Madrid, 2014), Beauchamp (London, 2011).
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
Arcu Pride Art Milan 2019, Clifford chance - Tallulah Studio Art
Pietrasanta - LABottega Gallery - 2017
Rzeszòw - Galeria Fotografi Miasta - 2014
Barcelona - Akashi Gallery - 2014
Madrid - Espacio 8 - 2014
Milan - De Magistris Gallery - 2013
London - Beauchamp Club - 2011
Milan - Obraz Gallery - 2007
Prato - Galleria Lato - 2007
GROUP EXHIBITION (SELECTED)
Genoa - First Floor of Palazzo Grillo - Other Identity - 2019
Lana - Kunsthalle Euro Center - No Face - 2018
Milan - Fabbrica del Vapore, Tallulah Studio - 2015
Pietrasanta - Gallery 33 - 2015
Arezzo - Gallery 33 - 2015
Milan - AT57 Cologno Monzese - 2015
Barcelona - EspaiB - 2014
Milan - Tallulah Studio - 2014
Milan - Galleria De Magistris - 2014
New York - Angel Orensanz Foundation - 2013
Grosseto - Basi Award for Contemporary Art - 2012
Milan - AAF Milan - 2011
Milan - Museo della Permanente - Reborn for Paul - 2008
Bari - Fortino di Sant'Antonio - 2008
Rome - b> gallery, 2007
Milan, Spazio Bigli, 2007
Vittuone (Milan) - Parati Award - 2007
Imbersago (Lecco) - Morlotti Award - 2007
Lecce - Riva Arte Contemporanea - 2007
Milan - Galleria Obraz Milan - 2006
ART FAIRS
Wopart Lugano 2019 Tallulah Studio art
PROJECTS
IMPERMANENCE - New Projects on the image - MODENA PHOTOGRAPHY FOUNDATION, by Elena Bernardi
ART FOR THE SOCIAL "Illuminare" by Donatella Izzo
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Fabbrica del Vapore Foundation - Milan
Municipality of Novara
Municipal Museum of Modern Art and Photography Senigallia
Municipality of Vittuone
AWARDS
"Parati Prize for Painting" - 2009
"XI National Prize of Painting and Sculpture City of Novara" - 2007
"Luigina Manfretti Award for painting" - 2006
"Premio Brera Materializations" - 2006
"Regional Prize of engraving - Museum of Modern Art" Gallarate - 1996
NOMINATIONS
"Art Gallery Award" - 2013
"Celeste Prize" - 2012
"Basi Award" - 2012
"Morlotti Award" - 2007
"Celeste Prize" - 2006