BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES:
Born in Cremona in 1932, she graduated from the Istituto Paolo Toschi in Parma and then studied at the Accademia di Brera. She lived in Paris from 1958 to 1960, where she appeared in one-man and group shows.
She then returned to Milan. Through the artist Bepi Romagnoni, she established contact with the Galleria Bergamini, which organized her first one-man show in Italy, in May 1962, curated by C. Munari.
Her continuous exploration was also stimulated by many important trips to Africa, Asia, and America, where situations and places offered her ideas and stimulus for elaborating elementary images and forms that can be recognized in her subsequent artistic work.
She gradually abandoned painting, and acquired extensive experience with different languages, including the language of film. In 1972 she made two Super Eight films: “Doprenoi” and “Diutop.”
In 1977, she was one of the founding members of the “Gruppo Metamorfosi,” with which she exhibited in Italy and abroad for about ten years.
From the beginning of the 1980’s, her focus shifted to sculpture. This led to the “Storie della terra-Mutazioni,” “Teatri della Malinconia,” “Pendoli del Tempo,” “Goniometri,” “Sestanti,” and “Costellazioni.”
Different forms and materials steadily expand through space, creating installations such as “Il Teatro Chimico di Novembre” (1984), “Teatro di Persefone” (1985), “Arpe” (from 1993), “Navigazioni” (from 1996), and more recently, “Vele.”
Over the course of ten years, she has also produced numerous multi-subject artist’s books, which are all documented in three different catalogues.
Her most important public exhibitions include those held at the Centro Attività Visive, Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara (1972), curated by Franco Farina, at the Pinacoteca Civica in Como (1993), curated by Luigi Cavadini, at the Torre del Lebbroso (1995) in Aosta, curated by Luciano Caramel and Janus, at Palazzo Racani Arroni di Spoleto (1997), curated by Martina Corgnati, at Palazzo Patrizi in Siena (2001), curated by Marco Meneguzzo, the new museum space “Le Carceri” in Asiago (2004), curated by Sandro Parmiggiani, at the Arsenale Militare and Conservatorio Musicale in La Spezia, as part of a review at the Fortezza Firmafede in Sarzana (2005), curated by Giovanna Riu and organized by La Marrana, at Palazzo Magnani in Reggio Emilia (2006), curated by Sandro Parmiggiani.
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