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2020-15  Luigia d'Alfonso e Ada Perla, after following individual paths aimed at

developing a personal creative process, decided to share a workshop. This daily

relationship stimulated the birth of a four handed project. Dialogue, the fertile ground of their work, shaped a conceptual construction whose origin is in the surname that binds them, Perla (they are sisters-in-law). This research on the pearl, with studies and readings on its symbolic meaning in different cultures and civilizations, its presence in mythology, its biological origin brought their respective aesthetic and existential experiences in touch. The image of the pearl slowly changed from an exogenous element into an inner suggestion and opened new channels of communication. The osmosis between the two individualities, generated by these new routes, allowed the two artist to arrive at a common language, Sabìr.

The name chosen by the authors to identify this new artwork refers to the language spoken in the past in the ports across the Mediterranean Sea. Sabìr, from the Catalan saber "to know", was the lingua franca used by fishermen, merchants, pirates and slaves from Thessaloniki to Istanbul, from Valencia to Cagliari, from Genoa to Tangier. Idiom of mediation, it probably developed at the time of the Crusades and survived until the first decades of the 20th century. According to recent studies, this shared idiom is the oldest pidgin language known. Sabìr had a poor but precise vocabulary, composed of Italian and Spanish words with Arabic, Catalan, Greek, Occitan, Portuguese and Turkish influences. Characterized by a simple grammar, it had very limited verb forms with a

prevalent use of the infinitive and a very free word order. The many missing word classes (including possessive adjectives!) was replaced by a large use of prepositions; an adjective

repeated several times was equivalent to a superlative.Written testimonies are very rare: the first document in Sabìr dates back to 1296; it is the "Compasso da Navegare", the oldest portolano, pilot book, of the Mediterranean basin.

A Sabìr is a unitary whole, composed of several canvases, the canovacci. Each canvas is a complete but open story that leads to the next, sometimes in a continuum, sometimes in contrast, others by magic; each piece guides and connotes the composition.The long and delicate work of juxtaposition and binding - carried out with thin gauze to integrate the space left by the "missing words"- weaves the fragments together and renders a complete narration. Time is an essential element of the composition: from the first creative spark, the Sabìr does not reveal itself before the dawning of the second moon.

2015 Study of the concept Bottega Perla: artistic fabrics for home

2014 Concept and development of M.A.L.A. hand-painted fashion.

2014-02 Management and sharing of an art and craft workshop focused on the design and construction of: paintings and sculptures, design elements for furniture and lighting, jewelry, and theatrical panels.

Luigia d'Alfonso - Roma 16/12/1967

High-school diploma in languages

Faculty of political sciences

Art window dressing and visual merchandising course

Gemology course I.G.I. Istituto Gemmologico Italiano

Collaboration with the culture association “Progetto Educativo Percorsi tematici sulla Roma antica”

Stage in fashion company ”Oky for You”

Collaboration with the contemporary art center ”Il Punto” Roma

Management and sharing of “Bottega Perla” art and crafts workshop

Indipendent artist.

Ada Perla - Roma 20/10/1960
Diploma liceo artistico
Corso pittura Scuola delle Arti ornamentali
Diploma grafica pubblicitaria ed editoriale
Graphic design presso agenzie di pubblicit? e privati
Laurea Lettere indirizzo Storia dell?arte
Pubblicazione dell?articolo ?Pietro Paolo Avila e la sua collezione d?arte? su ?Roma Moderna e contemporanea?, Universit? Roma Tre
Gestione e condivisione dello studio di arte e artigianato artistico ?Bottega Perla?. Artista indipendente

PARTECIPAZIONE MOSTRE

2020

SHE IS… 2020, the multi-disciplinary art group exhibition organized by One Art Space Gallery in TriBeCa, NY.

2019 

?        Sinergie Solidali Call for artists ?La Donna: da Oggetto a Soggetto?. ?Ciaccerata? con l?altra faccia della Luna? opera selezionata per la mostra.

?        RAW Rome Art Week, dap ? Ciaccerata immaginatopeica. Un progetto artistico partecipato presso l?INMI L. Spallanzani: ?Ciaccerata? allo Spallanzani?. L?opera, donata, ? esposta nell?atrio dell?ospedale.

?        Concorso d?arte ASREA 2019: Sabir ?Il volo delle sirene?, selezionato ed esposto alla mostra collettiva presso il complesso della Ex Cartiera Latina - Sala Nagasawa.

?        Mostra personale ?Sab?r ? Visionary bridge?, One Art Space Gallery, Tribeca, New York.

?        XXX Porticato Gaetano, Attestato di segnalazione speciale Pinacoteca Comunale di Gaeta per l?opera ?TMS?: Totem Tempo Memoria Mediterraneo Spazio. L?opera ? entrata a far parte della collezione d?arte contemporanea della Pinacoteca.

?        Arte Laguna Prize 2018-19, Venezia Concorso internazionale d?arte contemporanea: Sab?r ?Ripercussioni? passato alla prima fase di selezione

2018

?        Mostra collettiva XXX Porticato Gaetano, rassegna d?arte ?Lo spazio e il tempo della memoria?, Pinacoteca comunale di Gaeta.

?        Mostra collettiva Umbria Art Festival d?arte contemporanea, urban location Terni.

?        Mostra personale ?Il Sab?r - trame pittoriche?, Galleria Pagea Arte Contemporanea, Angri (SA).

2014

Mostra personale ?M.A.L.A.?, Studio d?Arte Monfalcone 16, Roma

2013

Mostra personale ?I colori dell?acqua? Studio d?Arte Monfalcone 16, Roma

2012

Mostra personale ?Atelier Simultan? Studio d?Arte Monfalcone 16, Roma

2011

Mostra per l?evento ?Welfare e finanza: Donne in scena?, Teatro Euclide, Roma.

2010

Mostra personale per l?evento ?Percorsi di vini? Monte dei Paschi di Siena e ING Investment Management, Roma. Mostra collettiva ?Arte & Natura? 188? Annuale di fondazione Corpo Forestale dello Stato, Piazza del Popolo, Roma.

2008

Mostra collettiva 3a Edizione "Le porte del Mediterraneo", Chiostro del Paolotti,Conversano (BA)

2007

?        Mostra personale ?Stagione a Teatro? Teatro Euclide, Roma.

?        Fiera Internazionale di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea 27? Fiera del Levante e del Mediterraneo, Bari

?        Mostra collettiva itinerante ?Olivo in arte?, Associazione culturale Studio 5, Italia

2006

Mostra personale ?Wine&Art ?, Gloss, Roma.

2005

Mostra personale ?Wine&Art ?, Gloss, Roma.