Artists
An album of portraits and self-portraits, of faces not revealed, of shared moments.
A portfolio of artists who share the values of LENSart and who over the years have participated in our initiatives.
An ongoing discovery
Simona Raimondi
Simona was born in Milan in the summer of 1970. She lived with her family in the Milan area until July 1991, when Simona entered the Maddalena community of Anffas Ticino in Somma Lombardo, what was to become a second family and home for her.
Since 1996 she has worked as a cleaner in a local company. In 1993 Anffas Ticino decided to open the Atelier espressivo in order to activate a space for expression through artistic languages, particularly drawing and painting, for the disabled people the association cared for. The initial idea was to create a space that acts both on a personal and social level.
And this is exactly how Simona approaches art, embodying over the years the spirit with which the Atelier was born: thanks to art Simona embarks on a profound path of searching for her unique and singular identity. Simona begins a journey that starts from herself and through art progressively questions her self-image, how she perceives herself, re-reading her relationship with the people who are part of her life. Precisely in deconstructing the forms of the body, in order to study and reproduce them, she focuses on her way of perceiving the world, which she returns now on paper, now on canvas and, although not present in this exhibition, now in ceramics. On the other hand, the motto of the Atelier she is part of is precisely “let’s try to remake our portrait,” because in understanding who I am, thus starting with introspective work, I can understand how to be in harmony in the world around me.
Lisa Perini
With a degree in painting from the Accademia Belle Arti di Venezia with Prof. Luigi Viola, Lisa now resides in Treviso, but is an artist with several awards and numerous solo and group exhibitions both in Italy and abroad to her credit. Her works are part of public collections in Europe, America and Asia.
For Lisa Perini, color becomes a personal alphabet to rework and filter representation. Her spontaneity can be found in her works and drawings, manifestations of a dynamic, intense and multifaceted personality that sets her apart. Lisa’s autism does not develop as if it were a cognitive deficit, quite the contrary. Lisa has a particularly developed sense of sight; she can be said to be hyper-sighted, to the point that she notices endless and surprising shades of colors. Her mind creates unexpected and always harmonious color plays. The colors of Lisa’s figures, landscapes and objects are hardly the same as those with which they present themselves to her eyes, but are an expression of the emotions and feelings that such figures arouse in her. Red is certainly her stylistic signature, along with recycled objects, fragments of glass, plastic, pennies, and whatever discarded object happens to be in her hands that Lisa mixes together with acrylics giving an even more material touch, plastic in fact, to her works.
To learn more about Lisa’s work, we recommend the Diari Sonori catalog published by Diastema, which you can purchase by writing directly to the publisher.
TAPU singulart
Darko, Albert, Mr. Heart and Tiziano Pinton are part of TAPU independent and singular art, a collective of artists, independent and singular, divergent from the common social paradigms according to which everyone should assume a certain identity in order to exist.
In this view everything divergent would be ugly, sick and bad, while that which is homologated would be beautiful, healthy and good.
They call themselves naive and hopeful and want to turn their “artistic singularity” into hope for the future.
This collective, joins forces, to discover, support and promote the artistic production of all those who for various reasons are working on the margins. The collective Tapu independent art was formed in September 2013 following the first collective organized at the municipal kennel of Treviso entitled: DOG!
Lisa Binato
Born in 1969, for Lisa Binato painting is an indispensable activity, it is her spark of light, the centre of life. Well-integrated in the community of the Massignan Social Farm, she has been painting for twenty years since 1998. Lisa stops, remembers, reworks, transforms her world into painting. She loves to portray, more or less from memory in their characteristic features, the people she meets.
After an initial phase of technical approach in which she painted compositions of letters of the alphabet of various colors, arranged in a scattered and repetitive order in the sheet, as if to recall the rudiments taught to children on the first days of school, she feels the need to move almost immediately to figurative themes with groups of individuals standing out on the most important support, paper.
A desire to express and manifest herself in all her deepest and most secret humanity, until behaviors and figures are revealed in their original state, where the essence of our being dwells, free from the traps and deceptions of conventions.
Richard Boulet
A well-rounded artist, his personal research is rooted in an autobiographical experience often of suffering, which led him to question his personal condition of marginality, in his works extended to the community.
Richard Boulet, a Canadian artist working in Edmonton, maintains an active practice in the studio that addresses issues of marginalization, particularly mental health issues and, more recently, concerns related to LGBTQ2S+ communities. Boulet has three degrees, two from the University of Manitoba, first in Environmental Studies (Architecture) and then a BFA in Painting, then an MFA from the University of Alberta in Drawing and Intermediate, where he honed his desire to work with textiles by combining text and image. He exhibited extensively, with a national tour that included the Textile Museum of Canada, as well as multiple solo and group exhibitions. The interview took place in artverona, where Richard Boulet participated in the exhibition space Arte Connettiva.
Laboratorio espressivo "e"
The expressive workshop ‘and’ is based on the Giudecca Island in Venice. The special feature of its activity consists in the direct observation of Venetian and other works, and their subsequent interpretation in the workshop, where participants have the opportunity to develop a special bond with their city and its immense artistic heritage. Andrea Boscolo, Lea Clara Ballarin, Antonella Agostini, Massimo Poli, and Massimo Reboa are some of the artists who attend the expressive workshop ‘and’.
Dianelis Massip Lopez
Dianelis Massip Lopez is a self-taught Cuban artist. His representations reveal a very singular vision where his great passion for music seems to sprout on paper at the repetitive rhythm of a pen that lets branches and leaves bloom ordered like a melody.
Although the final result of his visual creations reveals forms that we might consider abstract, it is his intention to represent sets derived from forms of the plant world, which are interwoven with wood of living fabrics. They often look like veils, female hair, mermaid tails, spirals, vortices. They are forms that are articulated rhythmically, with dynamism, and from which radiates a poem that much speaks of how the artist interprets his reality, as of his obsessions for beauty and perfection. Drawing allowed her to discover new horizons of expression, as well as a remarkable development of her artistic attitudes. Dianelis stays for hours making these pieces, controls every detail and processes each composition with the utmost care and minutia.
Dianelis is part of the atelier Studio Riera Art Brut in L’Habana.
Andrea Georgiadis
Andrea Georgiadis was born in Treviso in 1996.
He approached art in 2017 with the creation of figurative works, mainly using painting and shells that he has collected since childhood.
He loves dancing, swimming, listening to music, reading, going to the cinema and theatre.
Since 2019, he has participated in the creative workshop of the ALA autism association, where he has the opportunity to experiment and express himself with the techniques and media that he feels are most his own.
Andrea has developed his own alphabet, with which to express his thoughts.
On display at FORMAE MENTIS was the entire creative process that led Andrea to define the alphabet, and write.
We are always open to meet new artists!
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