Biography
Laura Omacini was born in Venice in 1991.
She earned a Master’s Degree from the department of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. Winner of Erasmus scholarship, she spent a semester at the École Européenne Supérieure d’Art de Bretagne in Rennes, France. She lives and works in Venice and till the 2021 she was in art residency at the prestigious Istituzione Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa. In 2022 she has a solo show at the Museo Ca’ Pesaro of Venice.
Education
2015-2017
MA Fine Art, Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, Venice, Italy
2016-2017
Erasmus+, École Européenne Supérieure d’Art de Bretagne, Rennes, France
2011-2015
BA Fine Art, Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, Venice, Italy
2005-2010
A Level equivalent, Liceo Artistico Statale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
What is being presented here is the result of a research where space and matter are the main characters. The repeated subject offers itself to an investigation whose aim is to unveil paradoxical analogies that link contemporary existence to the technical and methodological phases of making of the work. In this body of works, what is being pursued is a possible fusion between different levels of reading – sensorial, symbolic, conceptual – and in this their cancellation.
Halfway to representation and abstraction, in this works the subject and the observer lend themselves to a play of repositioning. The immersive nature of the water landscape is symbolically denied. The view is interrupted by a continued effort of eyestrain accommodation, lost between the image and its own surface, which is highlighted by the composition and sometimes by some geometrical bas-relief. The idea is to suspend, depict and return a questioning and wavering sensation, an experience that is aims by nature to the overcoming of the concepts of truth and border.
The picture becomes a place for the expression of the desire to even the odds between the notion of what’s real and what’s virtual, between a dimension de facto and another one, intangible but equally inferential.
Please click here to see the picture of the solo show “De Limite”
Selected Works
LE BEATITUDINI – Solo Show
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023
Le Beatitudini, solo show, Crag Gallery, Turin
2022
ArtVerona 2022, Verona, Crag Gallery, Verona
Le beatitudini, solo show, Museo Ca’ Pesaro di Venezia, Venezia
2021
ArtVerona, Crag Gallery, Verona
Preferirei di no, Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa, Galleria di Piazza San Marco, curated by Stefano Cecchetto
2020
De limite, solo show, CRAG Gallery, Turin
Prospettiva comune, Giudecca Art District, curated by Pier Paolo Scelsi, Venezia
103ma Collettiva Giovani Artisti, collective exhibition curated by Stefano Coletto, Istituzione Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Galleria di Piazza San Marco, Venice
2019
Surfaces, collective exhibition curated by Raphaël Charpentié, AEDAEN, Strasbourg, France
2017
Premio Paolina Brugnatelli 2017, collective exhibition curated by Riccardo Caldura, Fondazione Paolina Brugantelli, corso Buenos Aires 66, Milano
Premio Paolina Brugnatelli 2017, collective exhibition curated by Riccardo Caldura, Forte Marghera, padiglione n° 36, Venice
GazzeraArtVenice, collective exhibition by Guglielmo Bianco, Forte Gazzera, Venice
2016
Drive Thru, collective exhibition curated by Roger Clarke and Peter Fillingham, Q Park, Cavendish Square, London
2015
Interaction Generation, collective exhibition curated by Saverio Simi de Burgis, Atelier 3+10, Venice
Silent Movies, collective exhibition curated by Vanya Balogh and Cedric Christie, Q Park, Cavendish Square, London
2014
Premio Nazionale Giuseppe Gambino, collective exhibition, Galleria Civica di Preganziol, Treviso
Awards
Second Prize, 103ma Collettiva Giovani Artisti, Istituzione Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia
Winner, Contemporary Art Prize 2018, Rotary Clubs from Strasbourg, Bonn and Novara
Shortlisted, Premio Paolina Brugnatelli 2018, Fondazione Paolina Brugnatelli, Milano
Shortlisted, Premio Nazionale Giuseppe Gambino 2014, Fondazione Giuseppe Gambino, Preganziol, Treviso
Workshops, residencies
Opera 2019, art residency, Istituzione Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, September 2019 – July 2020
Une histoire éclatée pour une peinture sans cadre, workshop by Olivier Nottellet, EESAB, Rennes, France, October 2016