Flaminia Lizzani

FLAMINIA LIZZANI

(Rome, 1963)

Flaminia Lizzani is an Italian artist born in Rome, where she lives and works. She attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and the Free School of the Nude, graduating in 1990. Since 1993, she has dedicated a long time to her work as a restorer, working on important sites in the capital (Piazza del Popolo, Palazzo Farnese, Porta Pia, Palazzo della Consulta, Teatro Marcello, Temple of Vesta, Villa Medici, Capitoline Superintendence for Cultural Heritage, Borghese Gallery, National Gallery of Modern Art, Palazzo Barberini, and San Pietro). For several years, she was also a casting director for cinema. It is from these different experiences that the central interests of her work arise and develop: spontaneity and an almost obsessive attention to detail, which she intensifies with color to achieve a sense of corporeality.

She expresses herself through various mediums, from installations such as in the group exhibition "Primo Centro" curated by Alessandra Bonomo at the Aldobrandesco Castle of Arcidosso (GR) in 2011, to painting, focusing on the female nude since 1986, portraying subjects in very quick poses, lasting around thirty seconds. The female body is the central theme of her first solo exhibition, "Nidi di Donna" (2018), at the International Women's House, in collaboration with Asia Onlus. In the same year, she turned to photography, choosing the camera on her cell phone (Huawei 10) as her medium for its cinematic-like spontaneity. All her previous experiences converge in these works, resulting in photographs with a painterly effect, the printing of which on watercolor paper intensifies the material aspect. The first of these works were exhibited in 2020/21 at the Goethe House Museum in Rome. Additionally, she was invited by critic Duccio Trombadori for three consecutive years to the Sulmona Prize: in 2021, she participated with a painting presented at the Contemporary Art Exhibition at the Diocesan Museum Complex in the former Convent of Santa Chiara (46th Sulmona Prize), and in the next two editions, she participated in the same exhibition with photographic works (47th and 48th Sulmona Prize).