Daniela Carletti

Daniela Carletti was born in Ferrara, northern Italy, and started to be interested in art at the end of the seventies. That was the time when she began to attend a painting, watercolor, sculpturing and graphic school, whose teachers were important artists of her town. She has experimented with different materials like: clay to realize terracotta sculptures similar to the ones of Henry Moore, resin and fiberglass for more abstract sculptures, wire and plaster for lighter vaguely humanlike figures.  Around the nineties, she started to make reliefs with plaster. Since then, it was the nature in its most humble aspect that became the main source of her artwork, a nature of reeds and wild herbs, you find along rivers and ditches. She picked up and through a personal procedure reproduced them with special hard plaster on tarlatan fabric. After many solo and group exhibitions, in 2007 she participated in the 4th International Symposium of painting in Odessa (UKR) and exhibition at the Museum of Eastern and Western Art.In year 2008, after having attended a graphic school (Laboratori Liberi) near Urbino, Italy, she experimented many different techniques on Japanese paper.In year 2011, she was invited to the Venice Biennale, 54th International Art Exhibition, curated by Vittorio Sgarbi. Exhibitions selection from 2013:2018 - In memory of Barys Aydin, 2th International Plastic Art Exhibition, Binali Yildirim University Faculty of Fine Arts, Erzincan- Matrice del Paradiso, Pinacoteca Civica, San Severino Marche, Macerata - Wandering-Girovagando, Cloister Galleria d’Arte, Ferrara - solo exhibition - Ai Mulini, Galleria del Carbone, Ferrara2017 - Equus & Folium, Emirates Palace, Mezzaluna, curated by Swiss Art Gate UAE, Abu Dhabi (UAE) - duo exhibition  - In den Maandern der Schonheit, Deutschen Hirtenmuseum, Hersbruck, Nuremberg2016 - Luce nell’Arte, Arte nella Luce, Centro Puecher, Milano - solo exhibition - Dodici Contemporaneamente 2° edizione:“Perimetri, prospettive, vie di fuga”, International Art Exhibition, curated by MAC, Veroli Frosinone - Women with their own light, Artissima Art Gallery, Dubai - Attraversare mondi, Cloister Galleria d’Arte, Ferrara - solo exhibition  - Tracce e segmenti, Cloister Galleria d’Arte, Ferrara2015 - Voli di luce, Hotel Annunziata Art Gallery, Ferrara - solo exhibition - Sulla via degli aironi, Museo Magi ‘900, Pieve di Cento, Bologna - solo exhibition  - Sentire il viaggio, OnArt Gallery, Florence - Gemellaggio d’Arte Firenze-Fès, Palazzo Rosselli del Turco, European School of Economics, Florence2014 - ArtUAE 5th Edition, Armani Oasi, Burji Khalifa, Dubai - Inspiring Collections, Sharjah University, College of Fine Arts and Design, in collaboration with Artissima Art Gallery-Dubai, Sharjah  - Equilibri, Chie Art Gallery, Milano - Center of Ministry of Culture in Umm al Quwain curated by Artissima Art Gallery-Dubai - La Leda perduta: una collezione ferrarese-Divagazioni su un mito nel centenario di Michelangelo Buonarroti curated by Lucio Scardino, Camerini del Principe, Castello Estense, Ferrara - Ajman Saray Hotel, Ajman curated by Artissima Art Gallery-Dubai - Metamorphosis, Artissima Art Gallery, Dubai - solo exhibition2013 - Inland, Spazio Espositivo Banca Mediolanum, Ferrara - solo exhibition - Metamorphosis, Emirates Palace, Mezzaluna, curated by Swiss Art Gate UAE, Abu Dhabi – solo exhibition - Le farfalle ci sono ancora? Meeting with the artist “Incontri d’Autore”, curated by Lucia Boni and Paolo Volta, Galleria del Carbone, Ferrara - solo exhibition  - Ferrara in Nurnberg, Kreis Galerie am Germanischen Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg - In ordine sparso, Galleria Rosso Cinabro, Roma Her artwork is currently represented by:Swiss Art Gate UAE, DubaiArtissima Art Gallery, DubaiT.I.D. The interior Design, MilanCloister Galleria d’Arte, FerraraShe says of her work: “I think I have nostalgia for a time when human beings lived in direct communication with nature. I can’t explain in any other way my compulsive need to represent it.In all my artworks I just follow my inspiration, there is not much planning; the different materials I use suggest the path I follow. In the various steps of processing, all senses are involved, acting in synergy with the mind and the heart, showing me where to go. Creating an artwork is like making a trip to the mysterious and attractive unknown.”