The toys box
The box where the toys are placed whenever one has finished to play, a container in which the creative activity is temporarily put away, together with that reality that even though it appears suspended, it doesn't cease to exist. It is the most cherished and precious thing that a child has, like a drawing, that (sometimes) without any reference to the visible objects from which he is surrounded, he spontaneously gives with joy to those he loves most. Meanwhile he draws he lives his story.
Each toy/piece of art is a piece of a tale: an object, a painting, a photo, the music.
The most concrete reality is the fruit of abstraction, matter manipulated by the idea, by the feeling. Like a natural flow of water which nobody knows where it originates. We know the water because a definition was given to it, but we do not know who has created it.
The Creator is the wind, the breath, the heartbeat, the fertilization. It is the question that is aimed to the Sky.
Thus the artist, tired of semiotics, semantics, of abstraction and figurativism, already accepted his human form, doesn't want to enter in another shape, the artist; therefore he takes his creations (those which make feel himself very proud of) and arrange them in a box. The box is a means, not a limit for the art objects, which are instead the subjects.
They aren't pieces of a puzzle to be put together, but elements to be placed according to one's own liking and to be taken anywhere one wants to, beacause they belong to the recreational world.
Whoever stops to look at them, becomes attacted by their reference to the external world and by their colours, but, the more one dwells upon them, the more he starts to hear something: the silence and their inner sound. That freedom that the artist experiences when he becomes "Everything"; soon after the onlooker feels their candor, the lightheartedness, and little by little he wants to own them. He wants to have them all.
They remind him of his desires, the songs sung by the mother, the feelings.
Finally the artist can share his living and emotions, which are the same for everybody, and his happiness finds realization in this process of giving them to others.
Exhibitions
2009 “1000 Artisti a Palazzo”, Group Exhibition, Palazzo Arese Borromeo, Cesano Maderno, Italy
“Rispettivamente Arte”, duo show, Sala Civica C. Levi, Desio, Italy
2008 "Painting and Graphic Art" solo show, Villa Vertua, Nova Milanese, Italy
2006 “Aesthetica Art Exhibition” at the Gateway to the Quarter, York, UK
“ Sara Manzotti Painting and Graphic Art “ solo show, Villa Tittoni Traversi, Desio, Italy
“ Hypegallery ”, Spazio Assab One, Milan, Italy
2005 “ Women’s Art Show 05 “, Fairfields Arts Centre, Basingstoke, UK
“ Hypegallery ”, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
“Lexmark European Art Competition 2004”, The Air Gallery, Dover Street, London, UK
“ Living London “, London College of Fashion, John Prince’s Street, London, UK
“ Hype Gallery “, The Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London, UK
“ XHIBIT ’03 “, The London Institute Gallery Mayfair, London, UK
“ In – Print “, Cumbria Institute of the Arts c/o The Gallery at The Canopy, Kendal, UK
2002 “ In – Print “, Cumbria Institute of the Arts, Carlisle, UK
“ Brixton Open “, The Bettie Morton Gallery, Brixton, London, UK
“ Canonbury Gallery Open “, Canonbury Gallery, Islington, London, UK
“ Exposure “, The Beatrice Royal Contemporary Art Gallery, Eastleigh, UK
2001 “ Artists in Print too “, Atrium Cotton Building London Bridge, London, UK
“ Gardens “, InsideSpace Gallery, Burlington Arcade Piccadilly, London, UK
“ Artists in print “, R. K. Burt Gallery, London, UK
“ Engraving European Biennial 2001 “, Rotary Club Acquiterme, Ovada, Italy
1997 “ Menotrenta “, Competition for young artists, Hajech Art Space, Milan, Italy
1996 “ Young Brera’s Engravers “, Il Melograno d’Oro Art Space, Milan, Italy
“ In Accademia “, National Printmaking Competition for Academies of Fine Arts, L’Aquila, Italy
Cultural Association “ La Cuba D’Oro “, Rome, Italy
“ Salon I “, Spazio Linati Gallery, Milan, Italy
1995 Cultural Association “ La Cuba D’Oro “, Rome, Italy
“ Ex - libris and Engraving “, Libreria Duomo, Milan, Italy
“ Salon I “, Studio Lattuada Gallery, Milan, Italy
IV National Competition of Graphic Art, Brisighella, Italy
IV National Competition of Painting, Lissone, Italy
Publications
Image of a print chosen for the book ‘Illuminations’‘ by the Celestial Arts, Houston, USA, 2006
Images of paintings and prints used for The European School of Oncology leaflets:
Advances in Clinical Oncology Conference May 2005, Warsaw, Poland
Skin Melanoma Conference April 2005, Moscow, Russia
Advances in Breast Cancer and Melanoma Conference September 2004, Sofia, Bulgaria
Familial Cancer Conference 2004, Milan, Italy
Gynaecological Cancer Programme Brochure 2004, Milan, Italy
Breast Cancer and Melanoma Course and Seminars 2004, Milan, Italy
Chirurgia e Immagine Corporea 2004, Italy
Carcinoma Conference 2004, Milan, Italy
Event Brochure and Flyer 2003, Milan, Italy
Image of a painting used for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport Annual Report 2001 book cover, London, UK
Qualifications
2000 - 2003 Professional Development Award in Design
Certificates in Experimental Printmaking, Applied Printmaking, Printmaking Techniques
London College of Printing, London, UK
1996 - 1998 Diploma di Maturita’, (Art High School Diploma)
Liceo Artistico Hajech, Milan, Italy
1992 - 1996 Diploma in Painting (B.A. equivalent)
Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan, Italy
1989 - 1990 Certificate in Graphics
R. Bauer Institute, Milan, Italy
1983 - 1987 Diploma in the Teaching of Art (A level equivalent in art subject)
Institute of Art, Cantu’, Como, Italy
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