Roberta #verteramo will be the special guest artist at VIP Lounge, Genova Yachting Festival, presenting works that combine art and #design and explore the evocative power of matter. The relationship between the artist and the world of seas and navigation started from a personal passion, and evolved in the creation of objects and works of art that have become an integral part of the boats offered by the largest international shipyards.
The strength of Roberta Verteramo's artistic production lies in her great mastery over matter, an experience gained over the years as a restorer between contemporary art and #design. After graduating from the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin and a period at the Universitat Politècnica de València, Roberta #verteramo was first restorer of #design in Italy and founded the Laboratory of the Museo de La Triennale in Milan, collaborating with important international artists and designers. At the same time, she developed her own independent poetics which, starting in 2016, is expressed energetically in the #design sector with works that, while outlining her original artistic vocation, succeed in dialoguing successfully with the current needs of the market. Today she lives between Turin and London and her works, present in important art collections all over the world, are exhibited at the 88gallery London and in the main international #design fairs, such as #design Miami / Basel, PAD London and Paris, Masterpiece, Decorex London and TEFAF Maastricht. Her projects were selected by some of the most important brands including Visionnaire Home, Sanlorenzo #yacht, Minotti and Salvioni.
The Salone Nautico in Genoa has always been a reference for all those interested in the area, providing the opportunity to discover the latest novelties from the nautical world in terms of shipyard production, engines, electronics and accessories. This year edition aims at celebrating Genua as the City of the Nautical World and, under the auspices of the Made in Ital,y as a meeting point for sea, art and #design.
Her works go beyond the rigid aesthetic taxonomy that separates visual arts from applied arts and, thanks to their expressive power, articulate a visual grammar that becomes narration: stories, suggestions, emotions are revealed through the profile of objects that become symbols and give life to an original story yet to be discovered.
Liquid emotions translate into matter through dense color overlays of contents that the resin absorbs and modulates. The light rests on the shiny, and then opaque, surfaces that characterise the linguistic autonomy of an artist who moves with ease between art and #design. Her Jewel Paintings go beyond the two-dimensionality of the pictorial work to become a vertical tale in the three dimensions preserved by the resin: precious pieces of a composite history that today enrich the domestic perimeter of the most elegant yachts in the world. Miss Verteramo's artistic production also explores Sculpture with the Alchemic Jewel series: small installations forged in bronze and embellished with resin elements. Worked with authoritative grace, they explore the dense dialogue between the polished material and the raw expressive power of metal.
The alchemical experience with matter recaps an ancestral willingness to explore the sacred and sensual aspects of materials, as displayed in the Selene collection: the perforated metal embraces the geometrical form, proposing a visual and tactile experience.
“To me creating means, first of all, experiencing the material and "feeling" where I can go, so that I can answer back with an emotion.”
Roberta #verteramo
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