emanuela camacci
Mediums Used
All who have the opportunity to observe the works of Emanuela Camacci is transported into a universe where the harmony and balance of forms and surfaces speak of respect for the environment, living or inanimate, in relationship with man and his space.
Hers is an essential language in which the strength of sculpture knows how to conjugate the poetry of nature, where the links with poor art are mixed with elements of ancient culture and emotional, cultural and cognitive experiences merge in a deep and passionate look at the world.
Emanuela Camacci, born in Rome, has loved to draw and compose objects with paper and recycled materials since she was a child. Already in elementary school she experimented with the art of ceramics, modeling clay and personally following the cooking of her first works.
He graduated from Art School in Rome, then enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome in the Sculpture section. With the continuous desire to learn and experiment with new techniques, she also attended courses in engraving, woodcut and intaglio printing. After graduating, she finally follows a training in mosaic art at the laboratory of Costantino Buccolieri, where she worked for three years.
She has participated in numerous temporary exhibitions, such as Segni, a contemporary art exhibition in Turin in 2012, and in land art interventions in Italy and around the world, including, in 2019, GNAP Italy – Global Nomedic Art Project. Many international residencies, such as the Sculpture Symposium in Santiago, Chile in 2017 and the Yatoo International Artist in South Korea in 2018.
Among the privileged materials in giving shape to his ideas are stone, wood and clay, but he also loves to experiment with other media, such as iron and paper, in relation to the purpose and location of the works, up to the elements of nature.
In the sculptures made for outdoor environments, such as parks or gardens, emerges the ability to give essential and abstract forms to the stone, both as an organic element, and by crossing it with minimal geometric elements, through a careful and refined use of different surfaces and textures, which are changeable depending on the light; unique works, always different from each other in the tactile rendering.
In the recent series of works “Empty Cities” is significant the contrast between the geometric shapes finished with perfectly smooth surfaces, which symbolize the perfection and cultural persistence of ancient architecture, in contrast with shapeless elements made with rough and scratched textures, representing the organic and irrational part of the world, opposition that leaves a sense of unease, with a reference to metaphysical painting.
The artist in recent years is also dedicated to interventions and installations in nature, looking for and collecting plant elements and then compose them with a lyrical and poetic expressiveness, where emerges the love for the natural universe, a strong connection already present in the artist`s childhood. Color thus enters into the creation and lights up with the greens of the vegetable components, but also with the colors of artistic tradition, such as the purples on the barks of trees and Titian red combined with the whites of shells.
All these creative elements gave rise to the series of works “Urban Nature” in 2020, with a language of great power. Here the technique moves from the experience of mosaicist, overcome by the artist with a fragmentation of the rock that creates splinters that seem to become organic, come alive and vibrate between light and shadow, building large compositions. They are positive images, of hope, as from the fragmentation of a static and lifeless world comes a “modern” nature that transmits strength and vitality.
Who has the opportunity to observe the works of Emanuela Camacci is transported into a universe where the harmony and balance of forms and surfaces tell the respect for the environment, living or inanimate, in relationship with man and his spaces.
An essential language in which the strength of sculpture knows how to conjugate the poetry of nature, where the links with poor art are mixed with elements of ancient culture and the emotional, cultural and cognitive experiences merge into a deep and passionate look at the world.
Sculptures by emanuela camacci
Credentials
Qualifications
▪ Diploma Academy of Fine Arts, Sculpture section, holded in Rome in 1990
▪ Diploma of Artistic Liceum c/o IV Statal Artistic Liceum of Rome in 1986;
▪ Xilography certificate, Engraving and Calcographic print c/o School of Ornamental Arts S.Giacomo, Rome 1991;
▪ Summer`s Academy of fine Arts, sculpture. Villany, Hungary,▪ Diploma Academy of Fine Arts, Sculpture section, holded in Rome in 1990
▪ Diploma of Artistic Liceum c/o IV Statal Artistic Liceum of Rome in 1986;
▪ Xilography certificate, Engraving and Calcographic print c/o School of Ornamental Arts S.Giacomo, Rome 1991;
▪ Summer`s Academy of fine Arts, sculpture. Villany, HungaryExhibitions
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Awards
2010 13° simposio internazionale su pietre del Friuli V.G. (Udine)
2010 Scultura_LIVE 2010 (Pescopennataro, Isernia)
2009 "Sliabh Gearr". Wexford Co. Ireland
2008 3° price for a public art commission. Municipality of Mori, (TN) Italy
2007 The Way of Marble - Dobrøichovice, Cezch Republic
2007 SkulpturenLandschaft, Hamburg, Germany
2007 Cartasia. Open air installation exhibition, Lucca, Italy (Artcò)
2006 Resim ve Açýk Hava Taþ Heykel Sempozyumlarý - ANKARA UNIVERSITESI. Turkey
2006 Sculpture for the Dokuma Modern Art Museum. Antalya.Turkey
2006 Simmpetra, Museum of Modern Art, Caldhas de Rhaina, Portugal
2006 Europäisches Kunstsymposim-Skulpturenpark Mutzschen. Germany
2006 Sculpture for Villa Meridiana. Santa Maria di Leuca (Lecce)
2005 Int. Sculpture Symposium, Municipality of Dettelbach, Germany
2004 "sag und grab mal". Gartow, Germany
2003 Artist residence in Kunststation Kleinsassen (Frankfurt), Germany
2003 Sculpture for the Municipality of Lindern, Germany
2003 Sculpture for the Municipality of Portimao, Portugal
2002 Sculpture for the Yüzüncü Yil University Fine Arts Faculty, Van, Turkey.
2002 LanaArt. Sculpture Meeting in Carinthia.
2002 Skuplturenfeld Fuchsmoos. Piller im Pitztal, Austria
2001 1° price, competition `I Giovani Artisti per i Cimiteri di Roma`, for a sculpture to realize c/o Cemetery `Flaminio` in Rome
2001 Int. Marble meeting. C.E.M.A.F. Fines, Spain
2000 `Artessier`. Pierre Tessier Sculpture Park. Drumondville, Quèbec
2000 1° Prize, International Stone Sculpture Meeting, Ma`alot Tarshiha, Israel
1999 Biennal of sculpture. Comblain-au-Pont, Belgium
1999 II° Biennal of sculpture. Sculpture garden of Aubazine Municipality, France.
1998 Winner of a sculpture national competition for a sculpture realized c/o Barrack`s firemen, city of Rome-Montesacro est
1998 International granit sculpture Symposium. Tjodaling, Larvik, Norway
Born in Rome, the 20 of December 1968 Emanuela Camacci lives and works in Rome.
Accepted at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, she mastered her technique in sculpture, holed in the 1990.
She took part in several events in the world. Her sculptures are part of public and private collections.
Relates to this events she said:
"taking part in theses events, offers me an exciting opportunity to create a piece of work designed for a specific space related and integrated to the environment it is destined to.
It is also an opportunity to have an exchange with other artists, to meet them and learn from their experience and, therefore, to mature professionally and personally through the discovery of a context culturally different from mine. In this sense, it represents an important opening to me from an artistic, intellectual and human perspective"
ARTICLES
2007 n. 4 di Artpool to the web
Municiplaity of Dobrichovice, Czech Republic
Dokuma Modern Art Museum-Antalya.Turkey
Museum de esculutra contemporanea.Caldas da Rhainas. Portugal
Municipality of Lindern, Germany
Skuplturenfeld Fuchsmoos. Piller im Pitztal, Austria
Yüzüncü Yil University Fine Arts Faculty, city of Van, Turkey
Municipality of Motzen- Germany
Church of San Carlo Borromeo, "Via Crucis". Tivoli
Municipality of Fines. Spain
School in Ma`alot Tarshiha, Israel (symposium)
Municipality of Portimao. Portugal
Municipality of Moritzburg, Germany
Municiplaity of San Salvo, Italy
