Simona Weller

SIMONA WELLER

(Roma, 1940)

Simona Weller lives and works in the medieval village of Calcata (VT). She graduated from the Academy of Rome after long study stays in the East (from Bangkok to Cairo), in 1973 she came to the attention of critics at the X Quadrennial in Rome with large abstract canvases where painting mixes with letters and writing. During the 70s she was present at the Quadrennial in Rome, at the Venice Biennale (1978 - Materialization of language curated by Mirella Bentivoglio) and in Sao Paulo, Brazil, at the International Kunstlerinnen in Berlin. A multifaceted artist, she has always combined her activity as a painter (and then also a ceramist) with that of a writer in a process of research and historical reconstruction on the presence of women in art: in 1976 she published an investigative book on Italian women artists of the twentieth century, Il Michelangelo's Complex, and an essay on female creativity, The Private as Politics.

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Her solo and group exhibitions include: Barcellona - Price J. Mirò (1972); Genazzano - Nuovo astrattismo italiano (1972); Termoli, Termoli Price (1972); X Quadriennale di Roma, Palazzo delle Esposizioni (1973); Milione Art Gallery, Milan (1975); Berlino, Orangerie Charlottenbourg 1877-1977 - International Künstlerinnen (1977); Francoforte, Kunsthalle (1977); Arte - Ricerca curated by Lorenza Trucchi, Quadriennale di Roma (1978); Materializzazione del linguaggio curated Mirella Bentivoglio, Venice Biennale (1978); From page to space curated by Mirella Bentivoglio, Columbia University, New York (1979); Testuale, le parole e le immagini, Rotonda della Besana, Milno (1979); Trasparenze dell’arte italiana sulla via della carta curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai (1993); Post Scrip- tum curated by Mirella Bentivoglio, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara (1998); Magma curated by Benedetta Carpi De Resmini e Laima Krevyte, Istituto Centrale per la Grafica, Rome (2018); Il Soggetto Imprevisto 1978. Arte e Femminismo in Italia curated by Marco Scotini e Raffaella Perna, Frigoriferi Milanesi, Milan (2019); Ri-materializ- zazione del linguaggio. 1978-2022 curated by Cristiana Perrella, Andrea Viliani e Vittoria Pavesi, Antonio delle Nogare Foundation, Bolzano (2022); Il segno è l’esemplare parlato curated by Micol Veller Fornasa, Galleria Z2O Project, Rome (2023); FARE UNO dalla Parola al Segno un dialogo possibile curated by Erica Ravenna, Galleria Erica Ravenna, Rome (2023); Diario al Muro, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome (2023), MIART (2024).