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The Painting
Exhibited in Chicago in 2005 and Vancouver in 2006, "Anghiari Verde" is part of one of Chierici's most successful projects, "La Battaglia di Anghiari." This mixed-media painting, measuring 270 by 90 centimeters, is an elaboration of a lost mural by Leonardo da Vinci.

The Artist
Vittoria Chierici is an Italian painter and filmmaker currently living in New York.

During the 80s, she participated in important young artist groups including the Enfatisti, in Bologna, and the Neoconceptuals in Milano; the latter group's work culminated in the show "Examples of New Italian Art" at Riverside Studios, London in 1989. In the same year, Vittoria Chierici was nominated to represent Italy at the Tokyo International Exhibition, "7 Artists."

In the late 90s, Chierici began work on a new mixed media project comprising digital elaboration and painting, on the historical subject of The Battle of Anghiari, based on a lost mural by Leonardo da Vinci. A large work on canvas, "Leonardo Scomparso," was commissioned by the City of Anghiari, Tuscany and permanently exhibited at the museum of Palazzo Marzocco.

Since 2004, Chierici has been living and working in New York, and has begun a series of collaborations with American artists working in different art forms. Focusing on representing movement, since 2006 she has been working with contemporary dancers like Amanda Kirschner, Elisabeth de Ment, Miguel Anaya, Robbie Cook and choreographer Liz Gerring. In collaboration with composer Eve Beglarian, Chierici has recently started a new mixed media project based on the general issue of energy, focusing, in particular, on the feelings and imaginative responses engendered by industrial icons in our landscape.

Paintings and video installations by Vittoria Chierici have been shown in galleries and museums: Kunstmoderner Museum, Wien; Massimo Minini Gallery, Brescia; PAC, Contemporary Art Museum, Milano; Riverside Studios, London; Buades Gallery, Madrid; Castello di Rivoli, Turin; Museo Civico, Siena; Trevi Flash Art Museum, Perugia; Italian Cultural Institute, New York; Esso Gallery, New York; Baryshnikov Art Center, New York; The Times Center, New York; The Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh.

Chierici’s works are in private and public collections: PAC, Contemporary Art Museum, Milano; GNAM, National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Roma; Museum of Modern Art, Arezzo; Carisbo Foundation, Bologna; Republic of San Marino; New York University, New York; Kirkland and Ellis, New York.

She has been featured in essays and reviews by major Italian art critics and historians: Achille Bonito Oliva, Corrado Levi, Adachiara Zevi; in art magazines and newspapers including Flash Art, Flash Art International, Tema Celeste, Domus, La Repubblica.

Vittoria Chierici received her education in Art History at the University of Bologna, where she studied with Umberto Eco and other Italian intellectuals who founded the new faculty, DAMS (Art, Music, and Performing Arts) and in New York, where, in the early 80's, she continued her studies in Art History at UC Berkeley and Columbia, focusing on the migration of European avant garde artists to the USA in the early 20th century. She also studied Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts and filmmaking at the New York Film Academy.

Vittoria Chierici has been assistant professor at the Milano Politecnico, Faculty of Design.

Visit Vittoria Chierici's webpage.