New challenges and new projects for Raffaela Mariniello, Laura Cantarella and Elena Baldelli. The female artists selected by the Terna Prize 01 talk about all the moments lived in achieving their goals following the exciting experience of the contest upon their return from the exhibit-event held at the Chelsea Museum in New York. “This summer I expect to be working a lot – explained with great satisfaction Raffaela Mariniello, among the winners of the Megawatt category with the artwork “Souvenir d'Italie". I have just returned from a photographic trip for Italy because I am preparing an exhibit at the FORMA venue in Milan. I also just finished an educational project for middle schools in collaboration with the MADRE museum in Naples. At the moment, my solo exhibit ‘39 MILES’ is presently being held at the art gallery ‘Leggermente fuori fuoco’ in Salerno, to be followed in August by a collective show in Sardinia during the Berchidda Jazz Festival (Nuoro)”.
Laura Cantarella is also an ongoing volcano of ideas: “I am organizing for September in Sicily a workshop of territorial surveys entitled ‘Topography of the trauma’ – explained the artists awarded last year for the Megawatt category for the artwork “Etna”-. I am also planning a course for the department of Architecture at the Polytechnic Institute in Turin and various seminars that I will hold at the University of Barcelona. At present I am participating in a photographic campaign of the Piedmont region that will lead to an exhibit on the region’s artistic and architectural heritage”.
New opportunities also for the artistic career of the very young Elena Baldelli, who just graduated from the Fine Arts Academy in Brera. “Lately I have been very busy completing my studies– explained the winner of the “Gigawatt” category who was awarded for the lightbox "Rx-underwaterbreathing-#1oscillating rhythm". After completing my university studies and having specialized in graphics, I was involved in a series of events organized by the Academy. In February I participated in the Salon Primo in Brera with the installation ‘Sospensione di Respiri Fluidi’. Then I flew to Innsbruck, at the end of May, for a collective exhibit that involved professors and students of the Academy”.
2009-07-08
