CONTEMPORARY ARTIST
CRISTINA SIMEONI
Cristina Simeoni lives and works in Mantova.
Driven by art passion, she started painting from her earliest years taking part to "Madonnari" gatherings (painters who paint sacred images on the floor by using chalks only),specializing herself in drawings and oil technique. At the beginning of the 90's she worked at scene-painting for staging en plen air and after the technical school-leaving, attended painting and decorative art lessons.
Till today Cristina has taken part many national and international exhibitions in important cities & touristic towns with an excellent audience and critics reply.
Her works are reproduced in important art books and are present in public and private collections.
My name is Cristina Simeoni, I am a visual artist and I create abstract paintings. I'm specialized in oil and acrylic painting. I enjoy working with structure pastes to create textured works and often I incorporate materials such as natural fibers, stone and metal.
Art has always been my passion. I've always thought that complicating is easy while simplifying is difficult. This is why I strive to create elegant paintings with clean, refined lines and attention to the smallest details. My aim is to create elegant and essential pieces that convey light and harmony, that evoke emotion in viewers and encourage them to reflect and contemplate.
Up to this day, I have taken part in many national and international exhibitions in major cities and tourist destinations, with an excellent reception from audiences and critics alike. My works have been reproduced in renowned art books and are held in both public and private collections, both nationally and internationally.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Art is the most sincere and direct way I know to express myself and not making art is like to lose the ability to communicate.
I have been drawing and painting as long as I can remember. Only child, I spent many moments alone and art has always been my companion, my pastime, my refuge.
At the beginning of my artistic career, I was focused on realist painting. I painted what I saw, it was a safe ground to take my first steps in the art world and to find a match in those who observed my paintings. Growing, this wasn't enough and on the canvas, I felt the need to express not just the images I saw but the The feelings that they aroused in me.
Painting mostly at night, because by day I was doing another job, I created the first series of works, night landscapes surrounded by warm lights that lit the canvas. Night views have gradually become more essential and my painting has been focusing exclusively on light.
Thus was born the “lights” collection, geometric elements emerged out of the darkness with sudden chromatic ignitions. It was during the visit to the Mirò Foundation in Spain which observing the work of this great artist, something unexpected happened. A breack in my mind and heart. Not only did I understood abstract art but had entered my soul with such strength and passion such as to cause an irrepressible emotion that ended in tears. From that moment, my artistic production would be totally changed. I didn’t need real images anymore as a starting point but only the sensations, the emotions that I felt and that I wanted to communicate to the observer of my paintings.
Abstract art communicates directly to the soul, without passing through the eye filter. This awareness excited and scared me at the same time; to express my art sincerely, I had to represent what I felt without the warm and safe blanket of figurative painting. My artistic journey continued towards abstraction, purity and essentiality of forms. This is how my last works were born and I arrived at the white.
White represents synthesis.
The floating atmosphere of absolute silence that always I have looked for in my works, is enclosed in a single color.
All in one color. The White.
“White is such a high world compared to us that we don't hear its sound. We only hear an immense silence. It is a silence that is not dead, but is full of potential ". That's what wrote W. Kandinskij, Father of Abstractionism in "The Spiritual in Art".
I always have thinked that complicating is easy, simplifying is difficult.
The aim is to remove the superfluous to reach the essence of things and represent them in their essentiality and simplicity.
I love to use white in the structures that I shape on the canvas, it is the "non-color" that most reflects the light, which always has been the subject of my works. The light that I have always tried to capture thus becomes the author of chiaroscuro that change with the passing of the day.
So in my research, right now, white is the answer.
The material comes to life on the pictorial support thanks to the light that breaks, creeps and runs through every shape, thickness and wave created by this refined artist.
Abstract paintings, usually in shades of white or iridescent colors that offer textures where the true protagonist is the light that gives shape to the artwork as the hours pass. Minimalist artworks create a fluid flow inside the room and can bring a sense of freedom, calm and brightness to any soul and space.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013
"Geometrie di Luce” Rocca San Giorgio – Orzinuovi (Brescia) - Italy
2012
“Atmosfere” Galleria Europa – Lido di Camaiore (Lucca) - Italy
“Suggestioni” Sala Civica – Lazise (Verona) - Italy
2008
"Luci silenti" Tuttolibri - S.Zeno Naviglio (Brescia) - Italy
2007
"I colori della notte" Atelier Zumbolo - Soresina (Cremona) - Italy
"Bagliori notturni" Pro Loco Dino Villani - Suzzara (Mantova) - Italy
"Dalla luce al colore" - Peschiera Maraglio - Monte Isola Lago d'Iseo (Brescia) - Italy
"I colori della luce" ex Chiesa dei Disciplini - Piubega (Mantova) - Italy
2006
“Istanti” Chiesa di San Rocco - Pavone del Mella (Brescia) - Italy
2005
“ Visioni, Silenzi, Attese ” Galleria d’Arte Zanetti - Bozzolo (Mantova) - Italy
2004
“Dalla realtà al sogno” Galleria “Spazio Arte” - Castell’Arquato (Piacenza) - Italy
2003
“Meditazioni” Centrale della birra - Cremona - Italy
2002
“Cristina Simeoni” Tisaneria - Cremona - Italy
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
"La Materia e la Creazione" - Abbazia San Benedetto Po in Polirone (Mantova)
2014
"Luxury Art" - La Meridiana - Via Fiori 23 - Casinalbo (Modena)
“Forma et Imago mentis” Corte Isolani - Bologna
2013
"Keeping in Touch" - Artrom Network - Via Faiti n.6 Roma
"Abstracta" - Palazzo Ducale di Sabbioneta- Piazza Ducale - Sabbioneta (MN)
"L’Espressività dell’Alluminio" Spazio Comel - Latina - Italy
“Biennale Internazionale d’Arte Contemporanea Art Brescia” Sala Polivalente - Calvisano (Brescia)
“Dallo Spartito alla Tela” Castello di Monticelli d'Ongina- (Piacenza) - Italy
“L'Arte al tempo di Giuseppe Verdi” Museo Ponchielli - Paderno Ponchielli (Cremona) - Italy
2012
"Il Tempo e lo Spazio" Palazzo Orsini - Bomarzo (Viterbo) - Italy
"Nel giardino di Verdiana" Castello Pallavicino - Casali, Monticelli d’Ongina (Piacenza) - Italy
“Donne e seduzione” Palazzo del Turismo - Peschiera Maraglio - Monte Isola Lago d'Iseo (Brescia) “Passaggi” Galleria municipale - Lavenone (Brescia) - Lago d’Idro - Italy
2011
“Artedonna a San Zeno” Tuttolibri - S.Zeno Naviglio (Brescia) - Italy
"Le donne e l’arte" Comune di Motta Baluffi (Cremona) - Italy
"Donne d’arte" Chiesa di San Rocco Pavone del Mella (Brescia) - Italy
“Donne e seduzione” Palazzo del Turismo - Peschiera Maraglio - Monte Isola Lago d'Iseo (Brescia)
“Da Monteisola alla luna” Percorsi Sperimentali - Palazzo del Turismo- Peschiera Maraglio.
“Artefiera Orzinuovi” Orzinuovi (Brescia) - Italy
“Drawn Togeter” Siena Art Institute - Siena - Italy
“Spazio4” Palazzo del Podestà, Soresina (Cremona) - Italy
2010
“Artedonna” Tuttolibri - S.Zeno Naviglio (Brescia) - Italy
“Pandino Artedonna” Castello Visconteo Comune di Pandino (Cremona) - Italy
2009
"Artedonna" Castello Visconteo Comune di Pandino (Cremona) - Italy
2008
"Artedonna" Castello Visconteo Comune di Pandino (Cremona) - Italy
Collettiva a Palazzo Beffa - Asola (Mantova) - Italy
"Underground" Teatro Sociale di Soresina (Cremona) - Italy
2007
"Amici d'Arte" Galleria d’Arte Zanetti - Bozzolo (Mantova) - Italy
2006
"Colori e sguardi sul tempo" Palazzo del Podestà - Soresina (Cremona) - Italy
"Pittori della nostra terra" Teatro Comunale - Rodigo (Mantova) - Italy
2005
“Images of the water" Galleria “Immagini Spazio arte” - Cremona - Italy
Collettiva Sala degli Affreschi del Castello Visconteo di Pandino (Cremona) - Italy
2004
“L’arte al femminile” Galleria “Immagini Spazio arte” - Cremona - Italy
2002
Rassegna Fuori Stagione Galleria Immagini - Cremona - Italy
2001
Mostra Mercato “Artisti a Torino 2001” - Palazzo Nervi - Torino - Italy
XVI Premio S.Giorgio Concorso di Pittura a tema su invito - San Giorgio (Mantova) - Italy
Premio Suzzara sezione a libera partecipazione - Galleria del Premio - Suzzara (Mantova) - Italy
Concorso internazionale di umorismo “Isole 2001” mostra itinerante su invito.
Fiera Mercato d’arte contemporanea ARTE Padova 2001 - Padova - Italy
2000
Mostra d’arte comune di Gazzuolo (Mantova) - Italy
Collettiva Villa Ormond - Sanremo (Imola) - Italy
1997
Collettiva -Torre civica - Piubega (Mantova) - Italy