Teresa
Maresca has been living and working in Milan, Italy, since the 1980’s.
Her first
shows on the theme of landscape, were
presented with essays by art critic Roberto Tassi, Roberto Sanesi and
philosopher Carlo Sini.
In 1995
at the Marino Marini Museum in Pistoia she staged a multifaceted exhibition
entitled “Interiors of Stone” which was inspired by Graham Sutherland’s war
sketches. Poet Roberto Carifi introduced the exhibition.
Her study
of interiors grew to include “Cathedrals”
in 1998, as well as “Factories”,
between 2000 and 2004.This
series on industrial archaeology was
shown at the Museum of Iron in Brescia and at the former Falck steel factory on
the outskirts of Milan. The exhibition was introduced by writer Lalla Romano,
art critic Andrea Beolchi and poet Roberto Mussapi.
Her work,
entitled “Americana”(2005-2008), is dedicated to the traces of time left on
abandoned buildings of the American West . This work was exhibited in art
galleries in Houston, Texas, and in
France (Paris, Lion, and Thonon les Bains).
In 2009
she staged “CINEMA!”, an art
installation in the new MUSIL, the Museum for Industry and Work in Brescia.
In the
same occasion the film maker Andrea Montagnani shoot STILL MOVIE, a short movie on Teresa
Maresca’s paintings.
In 2010,
a solo exhibition, “FLOWERS AND BONES”,
at the MUDI, the Museo Diocesano in Milan.
In 2011 she exhibited at the Biennale of Venice,
Padiglione Italia.
In 2019 two
solo exibitions: at the Aquarium of
Milan, and at the Museum of Modern Art in Genova.
Some of
her paintings are held at the Museum of Industry and Work , at the MUSIL Museum
in Brescia, and at the Museo Diocesano in Milan.
