Isabel carafi
Italian-Argentine artist.
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
National qualified at Academy of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina 1978.
She lives and Works in Italy since 1980.
She got the qualification in Painter professor, Diploma of fine Art at Carrara, Italy,1983.
She lived in Carrara from 1980 to 1992.
Currently and since 1999 she lives in Trieste, Italy.
Personal and Collective Exhibition
Argentina (Buenos Aires, Cordoba, La Plata, Patagonia, Puerto Madrin), Canada (montreal), China (Hong Kong, Shanghai), Croatia (Rovinj), France (Paris), Germany (Berlin), Italy (Ascoli Piceno, Bologna, Carrara, Catania, Finale Ligure, Florence, Forte dei Marmi, Genoa, La Spezia, Naples, Milan, Modena, Padua, Reggio Emilia, Rome, Sardinia, Sicily, Treviso, Trieste, Venice), Russia (Moscow), Slovenia, Spain (Barcelona), Sweden, Switeryland, Usa (New York, Miami), Uruguay (Montevideo, Punta del Este).
www.isabelcarafi.it mail: isabelcarafi54@gmail.com
TRIESTE - ITALY
Isabel Carafì may perhaps boast of the richest curriculum, in his long career as a painter he has had the opportunity to travel and exhibit a bit everywhere, to confront the other by overcoming fears and breaking taboos. The choice of living in Trieste is therefore not quite random: middle ground, culture crossing, exchange and friction. It is from his artistic production that the signs of the acquired and perhaps sometimes conflicting diversities emerge, of the search for that point of ancestral and decisive origin. Isabel Carafì divides his existence between the South American and Eurasian continents, he is born in Buenos Aires, Accademia di Belle Arti Diplomas, moved to Italy 1980 Accademia di Carrara and from 1999 he lives in Trieste. The traits of his pictorial poetics are unmistakable: not pure depiction, not simple abstraction but almost anthropological research. The subjects of his works mix the semiotic value of caricature, the taste for naif design, with contemporary architecture.
ISABELCARAFI my works
My work is planned from the idea, to the design to the material to the execution, starting in the last years with research trips in the various metropolises of the planet and a previous photographic work and then moving on to different visual materials of execution, painting: canvas, acrylic , plexiglas, sculpture: lgno, arcilla, resin.
Many instructors from my Juventu have inspired my career as a painter, sculptor, as a young man I loved Bernini, Capogrossi Fontana Scanavino, first Mattise, Picasso, Egon Shile, Klimt, Munch, Renne Magritte, Keit Haring, as an adult more and more unquestionably art primitive archaic, Etruscan, Phoenician, Greek, African, Asian .precolombino
Totally in symbiosis, my interactive works in front of the viewer, the shape does not become color without it, the color does not interact without a conscious and designed form.
1979-1882 | CARRARA ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS, ACCADEMIA DI BELLE ARTI CARRARA, CARRARA Italy | PAINTING STUDIES. SCULPTURE, ENGRAVING, ART HISTORY, VISUAL COMMUNICATION, VISUAL COMPOSITION, |
1978 | Painting and sculpture professor degree-, accadmia Belle Arti Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Argentina | introduction to teaching as an art professional, specializing in painting and sculpture, |
1986 | STRUCTURE LANDSCAPE, MUSEO CERRETO LAGHI DI ARTE CONTEMPORANEA, CERRETO LAGHI Italy | LARGE-SIZE WORK ON CANVAS TELLS THE LANDSCAPE OF THE SURROUNDING AREA, |
2019 | STRUCTURAL METAMORPHOSIS, MUSEO ARTE MODERNA UGO CARA MUGGIA, TRIESTE MUGGIA Italy | BETWEEN PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURES. ARCHITECTURAL STRUCTURES BY CONFIGURING A SYSTEM OF WEAVES AND DIALOGING WITH THE INDIVIDUAL, 16 May-15 Jun 2019 |
2023 | PLANET EARTH SUSTAINABILITY, ARCADIA ART GALLERY, MILANO Italy | OPERE SU TELE E SCULTURE IN CERAMICA E LEGNO, ALBERI, PESCI ,MEDUSE, CONVOCANDO AL PUBBLICO A RIFLETTERE SULLA POSSIBILITA DI TENERE PRESENTE LA PROBLEMATICA AMBIETALE CHE CI APPARTIENE.. WORKS ON CANVASES AND SCULPTURES IN CERAMIC AND WOOD, TREES, FISHE, 24 Oct-08 Nov 2023 |
2018 | INMIGRATION IN THE METROPOLIS, Palazzo Costanzi , TRIESTE Italy | DIPINTI E ART DIGITALE, OPERE SU TELA E FEROX, E SCULTURE IN CERAMICA, I POPOLI IMMIGRANO NELLE METROPOLIS DEI PAESI DI TUTTO IL MONDO PAINTINGS AND DIGITAL ART, WORKS ON CANVAS AND FEROX, AND CERAMIC SCULPTURES, PEOPLE IMMIGRATE INTO THE METROPOLIS OF C, 08 Jun-12 Jul 2018 |
2023 | NICE ART FAIR NAE, PALAZZO DELLE ESPOSIONI, SALA CONGRESI, NICE France | PLANET EARTH-WORKS ON CANVAS, 14-16 Apr 2023 |
2022 | Luciana Matalon Foundation, FONDAZIONE LUCIANA MATALON, MILANO Italy | WOOD SCULPTURE AND PAINTING INSTALLATION, PLANET EARTH THEME, 21-31 May 2022 |
2023 | collective exhibition, Galeria Gaudi, Madrid Spain | Pianetta Terra Animals series works on canvas, 06-22 Apr 2023 |
2022 | COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION, MAISON10, NEW YORK United States | ARCHITECTURE SERIES, INMIGRATION IN LAS METROPOLIS 6 WORKS ON CANVAS, 08 Sep-22 Jun 2022 |
2020 | COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION FARM GALLERY TURIN, ARTE | COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION, WORKS ON CANVAS SERIES ARCHITECTURE IN THE METROPOLIS, |
2019 | THE LITTLE TRIESTE NEWSPAPER, GIORNALE IL PICCOLO | SOLO EXHIBITION OF THE ARTIST ISABEL CARAFì PALAZZO COSTANZI TRIESTE-ESCULTURE IN CERAMIC AND WORKS ON CANVAS, 08 May 2019 |
2022 | LUCIANA MATALON FOUNDATION, MOSTRA COLLETTICA GALLERIA ARTE BORGO ROMA | ENTREVISTA SU MEI WORKS WORK ON CANVAS AND WOOD SCULPTURE INSTALLATION, PRESENTED AT THE LUCIANA MATALON FOUNDATION IN MILAN, 02 Jun 2022 |
2018 | SOLO EXHIBITION AT THE CARA MUSEUM OF MUGGIA TRIESTE, MOSTRA PERSONALE CARAFì | ENTREVISTA ON MY WORK AS A PAINTER AND SCULPTOR ON THE WORKS PRESENTED AT MY PERSONAL EXHIBITION AT THE CARA MUSEUM OF MUGGIA TRIESTE, 09 Jun 2018 |
