Cronaca di un’epoca smarrita
Old nails expand like scattered remains of ancient buildings: signs of a humanity that once united, fixed, sought order. Now they float inert, emptied of purpose, witnesses to an era that replaced building with domination and destruction. Branches with dried flowers speak of a suspended nature, forgotten between what could have been built and what has been destroyed. Slender but not broken, they still retain their shape and memory. Two bombs rain down from above: blind emblems of a violence that continues to threaten what remains alive.
Buccellati Roberta
Roberta Buccellati, born in Genoa in 1969, resides and works there to this day. She graduated from the Art School in her home town, where she studied with painters Luigi Sirotti and Paola Ginepri and with sculptors Luisa Caprile and Vittorio Dituri. In ’98 she enrolled in the Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti (painting section) and obtained her academic degree in ’93. Her path was influenced by teachers such as Mario Chianese, Roberta Ferrarese, Nicola Ottria, Giannetto Fieschi, Guido Zanoletti. Since 1992, she has constantly devoted herself to painting, beginning her exhibition activity. Her passion for art led her to hold drawing courses from 1996 to 2008. In 2009, she obtained her teaching certificate in art history and drawing. From 2009 to 2015 she collaborated with the Fondazione Remotti, Reggio Children and Palazzo Ducale as a trainer and creator of educational laboratory courses aimed at schools, families and teachers/educators. Since 2015 she has been collaborating with artists in the design and realisation of artistic interventions of a social nature. In 2002, she began exploring urban landscapes on foot, equipped with a camera, documenting suburbs, factories, and coastlines to build a vast photographic archive. Her pictorial research grows from the foundation of these photographic analyses, focusing specifically on the dynamic relationship between built spaces and the individuals who inhabit them. In recent years, she has devoted herself to performative projects in collaboration with Officine Teatrali Bianchini. Notable performances include Abitare la Soglia (2017) at the Castle of Genoa Nervi and then in the Spazio 21 of the former psychiatric hospital of Genoa Quarto, and, most recently, within the 2024 Open House event in Rome at ELAB155. Her experience within the former psychiatric hospital of Genoa Quarto led her to explore environments as evolving psychological spaces, capable of shaping alternative realities. In 2019, driven by the need for a spatio-temporal expansion, she turned to the sky as an open and limitless space dedicated to humanity. From this exploration emerged the series Ognuno ha il proprio cielo, evoking a deep, ancestral emotional connection between the observer and the artwork itself. In the same year, she collaborated with La Casa Dell’Arte in Albisola Capo specialising in artistic/popular ceramics and with the artists Danilo Trogu and Cinzia Scarnecchia, and began to deepen her painting technique on majolica dedicated to the same cycle on skies. The following year, fascinated by the work of the artist-anthropologist Claudio Costa, she began a written-graphic and pictorial analysis centred on his collection of poems Amore e disamore. Roberta Buccellati has been exhibiting since 1991. In that year, she won the First Prize at the fifth ‘La Verna’ painting competition in Chiusi della Verna (Arezzo). She has held solo exhibitions in Genoa, Milan and Rome and has taken part in several exhibitions both in Italy and abroad. Her works can be found in private and public collections. Francesca Bavazzano, Germano Berlingheli, Monica Bottino, Domenico Camera, Dario Ferin, and Giannina Scorza have reviewed her work in writing.
