Beatrice Spadea
Beatrice Spadea is a visual artist based in Italy. Her work breaks through space and reveals an imaginative world that brings the viewer beyond reality's heaviness. Using different mediums such as paper, aluminium, and cotton threads, Beatrice borrows images from the natural world and reworks them according to her personal vision.
If you are interested in Beatrice’s work, please email all inquiries to beatricespadea@gmail.com
Instagram: @beatrice.spadea
About
From the discussion of the real and virtual body to the desire of escaping the “normalized normality”, Beatrice addresses the themes that are closely linked to contemporary problems. The idea of her work is to transport the viewer into another world that does not necessarily stand in opposition to the present reality, but that offers an alternative way of seeing it. More precisely, the theme of evasion is a line that binds her works. In stark contrast with the dictatorship of borders and conventional beliefs, she investigates how to overcome the limits dictated by the social and architectural structures that we usually inhabit and that we often foster more or less consciously. She chooses different mediums depending on the idea she wants to express. In this way, each work is born as a unique corpus. However, the paper is recurrent in her works as the malleability and fragility of this medium are a metaphor for the deformations and contractions of the body under tension. Among her most recent productions, the work Naufraghi di questo tempo (Shipwrecked of this time) is a large installation composed of strips of paper on which the image of a stormy sea is printed. Reflecting on today's reality, the work takes the viewer on a journey through a stormy sea, in which all certainties seem to waver.
Naufraghi di questo tempo, print on paper, white threads, 330x130x150 cm, 2020.
Biography
Beatrice Spadea is an Italian artist born in Monza in 1995. She lives and works in her hometown, wherein 2018, she inaugurated her personal studio. Growing up in her father's artist studio, Beatrice began to approach art since she was a child inside a stimulating environment. After attending the Art School, in 2018 she graduated in Painting at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. After her formal education, she spent a year in an artist's studio in Milan. Starting her professional career as a visual artist, she inaugurated the studio in which she currently works. Since 2011 her works have been displayed in solo and collective exhibitions. In 2020 she was the winner of 15 Best Prize for Nice & Fair Contemporary Visions at Paratissima in Turin.
Selected Exhibitions
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020: Winner of 15 Best Prize for Nice&Fair Contemporary Visions, Paratissima, Turin.
C.R.A.C. Crepe Rotture Alterazioni e Cicatrici, curated by Ludovica Lamoure and Rosanna Accordino, Arti- galleria, Contemporary Art Center, Turin.
2018: Contaminazioni, group exhibition, Leo Galleries, Monza Affordable Art Fair, Silvia Rossi Art Gallery, Milan I did it!, curated by Elisabetta Scantamburlo, Nhow Milano, Milan.
2016: Live Performance, Hernandez Gallery, Milan, Member of the award jury DO U C ME? by SNATT LAB, Reggio Emilia.
2015: Nutrimento Urbano, group exhibition, Mostrami Factory in collaboration with Fondazione Bracco.
2013: Open Week, group exhibition, Monza 360°, group exhibition, N.o.A, Milan.
2012: Femmineo, group exhibition, N.o.A, Milan.
2011: Scritture Diverse, group exhibition, N.o.A, Milan.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015: Milan Frammenti, solo exhibition, MIMUMO – MicroMuseoMonza Casa della Luna Rossa, Monza.
Imagery courtesy of the artist.