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Marisa Settembrini was born in Gagliano del Capo (Lecce, Italy) in 1955. She has attended the Accademia di Brera -Brera Academy- and the Kunst Akademie -Kunst Academy- in Munich, and she currently is a regular teacher for Pictorial Subjects at the Liceo Artistico di Brera -High School of Arts of Brera- in Milan. She lives in the city (Milan), and travels to the village of Alessano, in the region of Italy called Salento, when she needs some peace and quiet. Her activity started in 1976 when she was asked to participate to the exhibition “La nuova figurazione italiana” -The new Italian figuration- at the Palazzo dei Congressi -Congress Palace- in Rome, in occasion of the Quadriennale Romana. |
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She won the Premio Lyceum
-Lyceum Award- for graphics in 1984,the Premio Cortina
-Cortina Award- for painting in 1994, the Premio Saint Vincent -Saint Vincent Award- in 1995, the Premio Bormio -Bormio Award- and the Premio Milano
-Milano Award- in 1996. At the end of the Eighties she exhibited her works in Milan, at Palazzo Sormani -Sormani Palace- during an engraving exhibition and in 1991 the Town Council decided to dedicate her an important exhibition at the Museo di Milano -Milan Museum-. In 1995, eighteen of her painting representing the theme of Dante’s Paradise were exhibited at the Oratorio della Passione -Oratory of Passion-, by the Basilica di Sant’Ambrogio -The Basilica of Saint Ambrose- in Milan and in the same year, forty-six of her works were exhibited at the Università Bocconi -Bocconi University-. She was invited to the 6th and 7th Triennale of Italian engraving and to the 32nd Biennale of Arts in Milan, where she exposed six paintings in the portrait section.
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| In December 1997 she was invited to participate to the 5th Biennale of Arts in Cremona with three important works in the history section, together with Tadini and Adami. In 1998 she was asked to participate to the exhibition “Il giardino della ceramica” -The garden of ceramics- in Pietrasanta and to the exhibition “Vergine, Madre, Regina” -Virgin, Mother, Queen- at the Fondazione Mons. Bello
-Monsignor Bello Fundation. Still in 1998 was asked to participate to the exhibition “La soglia del silenzio” -The threshold of silence- and in 1999 to the exhibition “Le stagioni della luce” -Seasons of light- in the gallery Lazzaro by Corsi di Milano. Both the exhibitions were edited by the critic Carlo Franza.
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| Among her credits, she boasts many personal exhibitions in Italy (Rome, Florence, Alcamo, Lecce, Todi, Milano, Erice, San Vito Lo Capo, Pavia, Brescia, Sondrio, Loreto) and abroad (New York, Munich, Dusseldorf), and the participation to important shows. Her works have been exposed in several museums in Italy and abroad (Berlin, Montreal, New York). Among the Italian museums, particulary noticeable are some recent acquisitions to the Civico Museo del Disegno in Salò (Brescia, Italy), 1993; to the M.I.M.A.C. (Museo Internazionale Mariano di Arte Contemporanea -Mariano International Museum of Contemporary Art- at the Fondazione Mons. A. Bello di Alessano (Lecce), 1998; to the Civica Raccolta di Arte Contemporanea -Civic Show of Contemporary Art- in Ruffano (Lecce), 1998; and to the Civico Museo all’Aperto della Scultura -Outdoor Civic Museum of Evgraving- in Martano (Lecce) in 2004 with the “Porta della Luna” -Door of the Moon-. |
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In the recent years, representing the closure of this Millennium, she has devoted herself to a story where writing blends with painting, in a triptych of exhibitions in Milan (Blanchaert Antiquariato, Chiesa Antiquariato) culminating in the Rotonda di San Carlo al Corso. In 2003 one of her creations, a big Cross was placed in the Santuario di San Vito - Shrine of Saint Vito - in San Vito Lo Capo, Sicily. In the same year she exhibited her works in Sondrio at Palazzo Martinengo -Martinengo Palace-, and also in Alcamo at the Maestri Evola and in Rome at the Centrale Ristotheatre; later on, in 2004 she exhibited her works in New York, and again in Milano with an exhibition promoted by the province at the Spazio Guicciardini and in Roma at the Vaticano - Vatica - where she was called for by Giovanni Paolo II in order to execute a big portrait that, after the death of the Pope, has been exposed in the cathedral of his home town in Poland.
During the recent years she has devoted herself again to the theme of the story with some installations at the Otel Ristotheatre in 2005 and 2006, at Palazzo Borghese - Borghese Palace - (Florence) in 2007 and 2008. Recently at the Creative Council in Milan she has exposed the installation “Sussurrando la libertà”
- Whispering freedom - and in 2010 "Cede alla luce di perla il cielo" - The sky yelds to pearl light - |
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In the summer of 2008 she's invited by the Administration of Loreto with the exhibition “Alla corte del tempo” - At the court of time - at the Bastione Sangallo. While in Milan at the Circolo della Stampa she participates to the review "Panorama Italiano" -Italian landscape-. At the Studio Comerio she presents “Canto per Eva” -Song for Eva-, an example of Pont Art and "Solstizio d'inverno" -Winter solstice- |
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In 2009 she move to Florence where at the event Plus Florence she presents the exhibition "Viaggio in Europa" -trip in Europe-. In the same year the Local Administration of the city of Teglio asks her a solo exhibition in the city and the presence at "Nuovi Scenari" - New scenarios -, an important review cured by Carlo Franza and developed in various urban places.
In 2010 she's invited from the MIMAC (Don Tonino Bello Foundation)
to the review "Sentieri di Pace" - Peace paths -
In 2011 she's
involved in a big anthological exhibition titled "Novecento ed oltre", at the Plus Berlin and in Borgo Cardigliano, Specchia. It's also considerable the participation at the international reviewfor the 150 years from the Italian unification. She's also invited from Vittorio Sgarbi, presenting two big installation ("Libertà" and "La Colonna di Borges") at the 54th edition of the Biennale di Venezia
She has produced in collaboration with other writers, several graphics files. She has been indicated by Jean Pierre Jouvet in the Catalogo Comanducci -Comanducci Catalogue- at n. 14 and by Domenico Montalto at n. 27. Many Italian and foreign critics and writers, as Argan and Carluccio, as A. Del Guercio and Fabiani, as Ferguson, and Carlo Franza, as Armando Ginesi and Guzzi and Montalto, as Muritti and Ponente, as Russoli and Sanesi, as Walter Schonenberg and Marco Valsecchi, and also Fulvio Papi have written about her art. |
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