Ersilia Sarrecchia is from the province of Latina, south of Rome and lives in Doha, Qatar, from the beginning of this year. She has exhibited extensively in various towns in her province and in Rome and Milan. Earlier she has lived and worked for brief periods in places as varied as Madrid, Barcelona, Berlin, Moscow, Las Vegas and London and exhibited her works in some of these cities.

Her earlier works were of an enchanting array of animals in luxuriant colors, perceived with affection and sensuality rather than from a naturalistic or critically descriptive stand point. Andrea Bellini, curator and Director of Artissima art fair in Turin, paraphrases Italo Calvino in his American Lectures and says that Sarrecchia’s pictorial practice accomplices a shedding of weight and attempt to free painting and Nature ‘from the world’s opacity’ from an onerous and unseemly heaviness.

The art historian and critic Vincenzo Scozzarella says “Ersilia Sarrecchia can appear, at first, influenced by American (and partly Italian) Pop Art experiences. The language, the intense use of color and the repetitiveness of the chosen subjects, could lead the viewer to interpret her narrative in ‘popular’ terms….every single creation has its very own explicit personality, a very definite character, I dare say a ‘story’, that the artist continuously reviews and presents to us through this repetition… In this sense I believe Ersilia’s narration evokes the experience of Giorgio Morandi …he was capable of seeing beyond pure appearance. And it is precisely ‘beyond appearance’ that Ersilia moves and leads us with her work, a work that can be described as a slow interior journey to operate an intimate and deep search within her.”

Ersilia has traveled in the world from sunny Mediterranean image making, a sort of pictorial felicity and fullness, to her current mysterious works, not easy to be deciphered or explained and approaching the language of visual poetry.

Education

2009    
Teaching Artistic Education at the secondary school
“Scuola Media A.Volta di Latina”, Latina, ITALY
2008    
Organized painting classes for children and adults,
Latina, ITALY Frosinone”, ITALY
2006    
Teaching image education at primary school, ITALY
2003    
Workshop of work and ceramica at the school “Demodè”, Velletri, Roma, ITALY
Organized painting classes at the cultural association “Domus”, Latina, ITALY
2002    
Assistant to the photographer Marcello Scopelliti, Latina, ITALY
2000    
School-leaving university “Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma”, Roma, ITALY
1998    
School project “the mark that live” primary school and
“Liceo Artistico”, Latina, ITALY
1993    
School-leaving school of Art “Liceo Artistico”, Latina, ITALY
       
Solo Exhibition
       
2009    
“INTERNI CONTEMPORANEI”, Latina, Italy
“CAPOVOLTO”, Mad Friuli, Latina, Italy
2008    
“MAD Joyce Arte Contemporanea”, Latina, Italy
“OMAGGIO AL QUARTIERE”, Latina, Italy
“MOVIMENTI..”, Pitton showroom, Latina, Italy
2007    
“MAGICMARKETPLACE”, Las Vegas, USA
2006    
“Oasi della Costa”, Sabaudia, Italy
“Laranarossa”, GALLERY, Latina, Italy
2005    
“MAD Rassegna d’Arte Contemporanea”Latina, Italy
“SERMONETA SOGNATA”, Latina, Italy
“The Stables of the Kremlin, Moscow, RUSSIA
2004    
Gallery La Casa del Critico, Velletri, Italy
“TO BE BEINGS” Gallery ArtVeritti,
Berlin, GERMANY
2003    
“ERSILIA GUARDA IL TEMPO”,
Gallery “Fiori di Zucca”, Latina, Italy
2002    
“ESSERESSERI”, Agora Village, Latina, Italy
2001    
“ESSERESSERI” Gallery Lidia Palumbo Scalzi,
Latina, Italy
2001    
“LIBERATORI”, Gallery UpArt, Madrid, SPAIN
1996    
“PERSONALE”, Gallery Pennacchi, Latina, Italy
1994    
“PERSONALE”, Town hall Bassiano, Italy
       
Collective Exhibition
       
2008    
“PHOTO VIRUS”, Grosseto, Italy
2006    
“OLTRE FRONTIERA”, Matera, Italy
2004    
2nd place “PREMIO LATINAMARE”, Latina, Italy
Photograph exhibition “ASPASIA”, Latina, Italy
1st place “MARIO RAZZANO”, Benevento, Italy
2003    
“CONTEMPORANEA”, Casacalenda, Italy
“PROGETTO CAMERUN” Teatro D’Annunzio,Latina, Italy
“CONTEMPORANEA PALAZZO M”, Latina, Italy
2002    
Gallery Arè, Rome, Italy
“FOGLIANO ARTE”, Latina, Italy
2001    
Gallery Lidia Palumbo Scalzi, Latina, Italy Sede
1997    
Regione Lazio, Rome, Italy
1995    
Accademia del Profumo, Milan, Italy
“I FORI IMPERIALI”, Rome, Italy
1994    
Accademy of Arts, Odessa, RUSSIA
       
Art installations
       
2004    
“FOGLIANO ARTE”, Latina, Italy
2001    
“EMPTITA’-PERSONE VUOTE”, Latina, Italy