Anna Maria Tentella has been attracted
to art since childhood, when she loved drawing, but her education included only
art history, not practical art subjects. Her artistic journey
has begun around the age of thirty, when she realized that art could provide
profound answers to her inner world. Starting a creative path became a
necessity.
With constant work,
she has experimented for years with colored pencils, watercolor, oil painting,
engraving, ceramic. Over time, papier-mâché has appeared increasingly suited
to her expressive needs, a medium she had already used with children both at
home as a mother and at school as a primary school teacher.
Papier-mâché,
mouldable with her own hands, has proved to be a medium of infinite potential.
It takes on the form most responsive to the content to be expressed, overcoming
the limits of canvas or paper. It creates grooves and reliefs with real lights
and shadows besides varied thicknesses that can curve the papier-mâché while it
is drying, enriching three-dimensionality. Later watercolor or oil
painting completes with color what the dried papier-mâché already
suggests.The resulting material is light, surpassing the heaviness of reality.
It can be able to speak the language of the soul and to express its
aspirations.
Previously graduated
in psychology, the artist finds in her work a vehicle for a deep journey into
the inner world, making it visible, while the work is offering transformation
and healing for the complexity of life.
Being a passionate traveller, she dissolves with her artistic creation the
boundaries between the outer and inner world. She transforms them into forms,
colors, and textures that reveal what is hidden or what is possible.
In her poetics, art is
an expression of herself and her own presence in the world. It responds to
inner needs making real both intimate experiences and aspirations.
Selection
of Group Exhibitions
2024 –
Fermo, Italy –
Watermills (Association Fermo in
Aquerello)
2023 –
Fermo, Italy –
Fermo Attivo (Municipality of Fermo)
2022 –
Uppsala, Sweden –
Come and Create (Cultural Centre
“Kontakten”, Gottsunda)2013 – Milano , Italy, Spazio Hajech –
September in Milan (Borgo
degli Artisti Ezio Sapi)
2012 –
Fermo, Italy –
Intanto (Municipality of Fermo)
2007 –
Fermo, Italy –
Chalcography (EDA Course)
2002 –
Fermo, Italy –
The Trays of Saint Lucy (Cultural
Association Periferie)
1999 –
Fermo, Italy –
Survey of Artists in the Fermo Area (Cultural
Association Periferie)
1991 –
Sassoferrato, Italy –
Salvi Art Exhibition (Municipality
of Sassoferrato / University of Urbino)
