Nicoletta Veronesi

About me

BIO

Nicoletta Veronesi‘s art work is characterized by the exploration of traditional and non-traditional media through her original use of color and her continuously different expressive forms: photography, painting, collage, artist’s books and objects. The artist operates with absolute freedom: abstract and figurative work alternate and overlap without any preoccupation of belonging. Nicoletta Veronesi’ s vocabulary is variety: it‘s the integrating quality of her work. She never ties herself to a style and she doesn’t allow herself to be limited by a specific cliché. As Marcel Duchamp said: “Most people stop and give themselves a style, for some there isn’t ever a break”.

Born in Milan, after her degree in Political Sciences at The Milan State University, she moved to New York City in 1975 and studied painting at The Art Students League. During ten vibrant years living in New York, Nicoletta Veronesi worked at both figurative and abstract painting on big format canvases and photographs, initially Polaroid and then Cibachrome. In 1986 she has been invited by collector Jacques Hachuel to work in Madrid where she had her first one-man show at Moriarty Gallery.

She lived in Madrid for 8 years, producing commission work and pursuing her own research.

She now lives between Milan and New York.

Her work has been on display in collective and personal exhibitions in New York, Spain, and Italy. Part of her art production was acquired by the borrowing institutions or private collectors.

John Weber

(John Weber Gallery, NY)

my world

ENCHANTED IMAGES

"Enchanted images" is the way I would define this work of Nicoletta Veronesi, seducing and intriguing images, images that fascinate and unsettle, as it happens when we encounter the world of fairy tales. And it is in this world that Nicoletta Veronesi's work transports us, a world that she brings to life using different techniques and styles of painting and photography, whether she enhances the dramatic and expressionistic dimension of color and its contrasts or she uses the pallor of grey and muted colours or black and white in their absoluteness. She brings us in the fairytale world, in the most ancient form of storytelling, in which everything holds and binds, connects and manifests. It has nothing to do with the world of childhood, but with that dark and unsettling of the origins, of the rites of passage, where life and death are together and pierce one into the other. The dreamlike dimension that appears in many of her works is conveyed by water. Water creates the double: it expands and it fades the image in the reflection. The depth of the water's reflection does not just reproduce, but it leads us, with its being vague, in the infinity of the sign and in its elusiveness, in its magic and enchanted deception. It creates an experience of transition, somewhere in between dream and reality...

Eleonora Fiorani

(epystemologist and writer)

A CIRCUMSTANCIAL RESEARCH

"...Veronesi’s whole work has, in my view, a narrative character and course. The titles are indicative in this respect: "The guardian of the river", "The escaped", "Fairy", "The elves dance in the winter" A symbolic world, expressed with visual metaphors that could very well translate into poetic lines. "The guardian of the river," a woman / goddess and queen erects herself as a guardian of the water, of which is evoked the preciousness.

It is the water of a great and vast river; the immersion of the goddess is not total, it almost suggests a birth by emerging, maintaining the contact with the salvific and ancestral element carrier of life. The mastery of digital technology is clear, but the risk of a detachment from reality is averted by the use of some wool and silk fibers that Veronesi inserts in her composition so that it becomes the weave of the surface. It’s a recall to a never abandon manual practice, which is nourished and delighted by a domestic feeling...

Mimma Pasqua

(art historian)

SHOWS

ONE MAN SHOWS

2018 Madre Acqua, Spazio Ciprea, Maruggio (TA)
2017 Fra il sogno e la realtà, Galleria Quinto Cortile, Milano
2016 Spiriti all’alba, Grand Hotel Trento, Trento
2009 About Love, Le Biciclette, Milano
2009 Elephants,Zebras, Giraffes, Space Le Trottoir – Milano
2005 Il viaggio, ArteTadino6, Milano
2005 L’isola felice, Biblioteca di Malfa, Salina, Isole Eolie
2005 Acquatica, Palazzo Comunale, Salina, Isole Eolie
1987 Incontro con Picasso, Centro Cultural Lavapies, Madrid
1986 Polaroid e Cybachrome, Galleria Caleidoscopio, Madrid
1986 Polaroid, Galleria Moriarty, Madrid
1986 Polaroid, Junta Municipal de Tetùan – Madrid
1985 Polaroid, Self Portrait, Kamikazy Gallery, New York
1984 Abstract, Reinhardt Gallery, Woodstock

GROUP SHOWS

2022 Bookcity '22: Selfportrait- Galleria Quintocortine, Milano
2022 Tornare a Itaca X, Palazzo Comunale, Grimaldi (CS)
2021 Tornare a Itaca X, Palazzo Comunale, Grimaldi (CS)
2020 Tornare a Itaca XIV, Palazzo Comunale, Grimaldi (CS)
2019 Memorie resistenti - XVI Rassegna Poesiarte Milano- Quintocortile -Milano
2019 Il Giardino delle meraviglie: "Angolo dei desideri" - Neuropsichiatria infantile-ASST Bergamo
2019 Tornare a Itaca XIII, Palazzo Comunale, Grimaldi (CS)
2019 XVI Rassegna Poesiarte Milano: Memorie resistenti, Quintocortile, Milano
2019 Specie Protette: il Giardini delle Meraviglie - Installation - MilanDesignWeek
2019 SmallFamilies, TamTam, Triennale, Milan
2018 Tornare@Itaca XII, Fondazione Brugnatelli, Milano
2018 Guerra o Pace?, Palazzo Trentini, Trento
2018 Giochi e Gioghi Globali, XV rassegna Poesiarte, Quinto Cortile, Milano
2018 Love maybe Love, Biennale FIDA, Palazzo Thun, Trento
2017 Tornare@Itaca XI, Attraversamenti, Palazzo Comunale, Grimaldi (CS)
2016 Land Art Lupanica, Udine
2016 Tornare@Itaca X, Il Cinema e lo sguardo degli altri, Quinto Cortile, Milano
2016 Passi d’arte nel bosco lupanico, 1a edizione premio Land Art, Udine
2016 Tornare@Itaca. Il Cinema e lo sguardo degli altri, MAM, Cosenza
2015 FiguraAQUA (parte terza), Spazio Soderini, Milano
2015 Tondo d’Artista, Spazio SEICENTRO, Milano
2015 Toyssimi, Triennale di Milano, Milano
2015 Visioni, Museo MAXI, Roma
2015 Visioni, Spazio Ex Fornace, Milano
2014 Per Terra, Spazio Ex Fornace, Milano
2014 Abiti da Lavoro - Abiti d'oro ( variazione sugli abiti da lavoro) illustrazioni - Triennale di Milano
2014 Per Terra, Tornare@Itaca, Palazzo del Comune di Grimaldi, Cosenza
2013 Il Labirinto, TamTam, Spazio Ex Fornace, Milano
2012 Ama Foreste, NABA, Milano
2011 Passagen, Colonia
2011 La Casa di Ulisse, Fabbrica Del Vapore, Milano
2011 Invenzioni Leggere, Space Anna Lenti, Milano
2010 Progettazione casa Rom, TamTam
2010 Gioielli, Atelier VM, Milano
2010 Love you Love me, Cow Parade, Hotel De Russie, Roma
2008 La Vache Qui Rit , Cow Parade, Capri
2008 The brain project, Trieste
2007 Poetree Christmas City Park, Superstudiopiù, Milano
2007 Unreal Flowers, My Own gallery, Superstudiopiù , Milano
2007 Mediterraneo i colori del mare , Gard Gallery – Roma
2007 The brain project, Trieste
2007 I peccati del III Millennio, Palazzo della Regione, Trento
2007 Precious Cow, Cow Parad, Milano
2006 Urban Work, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatam,New York
2006 4 Italian Artists, Artkultur, Monaco
2005 Messaggi, Gasoline, Milano
2004 Limited editions, Slobs Edizioni, Milano
2003 Oggetti d'artista, Slobs, Milano
2002 Prints edition, Slobs , Milano
1999 Solo Fiori, Belcanto, Pavia
1999 Arte grafica, Immaginaria, Milano
1998 Only Roses, WEA (World Exhibition Association), Viterbo
1997 I colori del vento, Palazzina Liberty, Milano
1997 Trilogia d’amore, Paci & Partners, Milano
1997 Cartoline d’autore, Bac Art Studio Venezia
1996 Il fischietto , Microbrera, Milano
1996 Pittura, Ceramica, Gioielli, Palazzo Maresca – Ostuni
1995 Cartoline d’autore, Bac Art Studio, Venezia
1994 Cartoline d’autore, Bac Art Studio, Venezia
1987 Toros y los Toreros, Galleria Moriarti, Madrid
1986 El Collage, Sala d'Exposiciones Universidad de Valencia, Valencia
1985 Video, The Kitchen, New York

WORK EXPERIENCE

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY — 1977-1979

Research collaboration and doctoral thesis with Dr. Annie Bergman: "Art as a means of communication with autistic children" (Preschool age group)

THE NEW SCHOOL UNIVERSITY-NEW YORK-1979-1981

Italian language teaching through the creation of my own textbook: images and personal stories (adolescents and adults)

IN MY OWN ART STUDIO-MILANO-1993-2000)

Art workshops for children (ceramics, mosaic, jewelery, autobiographical booklets)

NABA-MILANO-2011

Teacher of the intensive "Creative Embroidery" course: https://vimeo.com/97552959 https://vimeo.com/20678968

https://vimeo.com/97552960

NABA-MILANO-2012

For "TAM TAM, an extreme school" http://www.tam-tam-tam.org/

Design and teaching of the "Naturelli" workshop: Creation of jewels with the elements of nature.

SOLARIS (CAMPHILL)-HUDSON NY-2014

Within SOLARIS http://www.camphillhudson.org/solaris.html creation and design of design objects and jewelery with hadicapped residents. The work is later sold in the Warren Street-Hudson-NY association store

SCUOLE e TRIENNALE di MILANO-2015
TOYSSIMI with TAM TAM http://www.tam-tam-tam.org/

100 children and 100 designers. Design and execution of toys with elementary school children.

https://www.eliconie.info/?x=entry:entry150723-171815;comments:1

TRIVULZIO-MILANO-2018-2019

Il Pio Albergo Trivulzio, http://www.iltrivulzio.it/home.html for over two centuries it has been the nursing home for the poorer and elderly of Milan. Design and implementation of the project "The Game of the giant Goose". (Creation of a maxi tableau of the game of goose and application of hand colored drawings by the elderly. Original drawings by Nicoletta Veronesi)

PANE QUOTIDIANO - MILANO - 2018-2019

With TAM TAMand for Pane Quotidiano http://panequotidiano.eu/ an art project for the children of the users of the Bread Onlus Association:

https://www.facebook.com/tamtamspecieprotette/ - (Vedi pagina facebook)

NEUROPSICHIATRIA INFANTILE - ASST BERGAMO-2019

IL GIARDINO DELLE MERAVIGLIE: Permanent installations and works of art in the park of the psychiatric institution of Bergamo: creation of a dynamic and stimulating journey.

My work of art: "The bench of desires" (mosaic), https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3Aaf9ffaa9-0458-4f17-aa96-9d1886ea5f82

ART RESIDENCY - 2018-2019

Initiation to the world of creativity. In my studio in the south of Italy I offer week ends or weeks of art residency where I

extrapolate the artist which is in all of us

https://artemetamorfosi.blogspot.com/2019/09/art-residency-3-giorni-di-creativita.html

CREATIVE WORSHOPS: 2010-2019

DREAM CATCHERS

https://artemetamorfosi.blogspot.com/2019/10/workshop-creation-of-dream-catcher.html

WORKING WITH NATURE

https://artemetamorfosi.blogspot.com/2019/10/ricamo-creativo-noi-e-la-natura.html

ARTIST BOOKS

https://artemetamorfosi.blogspot.com/2019/10/libri-dartista-e-libri-per-bambini-2000.html