Patrizia Murro is an Italian visual artist, trained at the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti in Turin, where she combined painting with the study of Fashion and Costume — two languages that have shaped and run through her entire artistic practice. In 2001 she was awarded first prize in the photography competition “Women photographed by women” organised by Glamour Condé Nast, with publication in the May issue of that year — the first public recognition of a visual sensibility that would define all her work to come.
Her practice spans painting, sculpture, bronze casting, laser engraving on stone, marble and fabric, in a continuous dialogue between material and body, memory and rebirth. At the heart of her work is the project Re-nasci (Re-born), a journey of over seven years dedicated to exploring the organs of the human body as maps of pain, affection and transformation. In each work, silk thread crosses and sutures the anatomical form, while gold retraces its contours — echoing the great tradition of Sienese Gothic painting, from Duccio to Simone Martini — reinterpreted in a contemporary and deeply personal key. The foetus, a recurring and propitiatory figure, inhabits every organ as a silent witness to suffering endured and as a promise of renewal: not a symbol of fragility, but of generative strength.
In 2020 she held her first solo exhibition at the Palazzo dei Priori in Colle Val d’Elsa, a significant milestone in a journey that binds her ever more deeply to Tuscany and its artistic tradition.
In recent months her research has evolved in a new and luminous direction: flowering branches, born from a deep and studied love for Vincent van Gogh, physically pursued through the streets of Auvers-sur-Oise, Paris, Amsterdam and Nuenen, where Patrizia sought his palette in the skies of France and Holland. An evolution that is not a break, but the natural flowering of the same theme that has accompanied her for years: birth, rebirth, life regenerating itself.
In this new body of work Murro embraces the technique of cloisonnism, preparing her canvases with rabbit skin glue and Bologna gesso following the instructions of Benvenuto Cellini, and mixing colours exclusively from pure pigments: Veronese green, ultramarine and alizarin crimson — the same chromatic triad beloved by Van Gogh — become her visual alphabet, rooted in history and alive in the present.
Patrizia has exhibited nationally and internationally, including Paratissima (Turin), the International Cinemambiente Festival and Out of Fashion (Milan). She worked hands-on at the foundries of Chianti, taking part directly in the bronze casting process, and entrusted the execution of a marble sculpture to the workshops of Carrara. She lives and works between Turin and Tuscany.
