ARTIST BIO
Maria Cristina Cerminara was born in Rome
where she now lives. She lived in England and Germany
where she studied Drawing Art Techniques. After studies at the Art Academy of Florence she graduated in Graphics and Painting at Art Academy of Rome in 1990.
Among the most important solo exhibition she participated to: "Sehnsucht - Frammenti dell'Essere" - Spazio Gattomerlino Gallery - Rome 2017
"De Obsessione - Bond Age" - Massenzio Arte Gallery - Rome 2009
"Eros&Tattoo" - Fondazione Menna - Rome 2008
"La Scelta" - La Camera Verde - Rome 2004
"Blue" - Galerie Maas. Cologne - Germany 1993
In the year 2003 she collaborated with Scottish Lion Television to the production of the documentary "Mediterranean Tales" with interviews about my artistic work and the work of her father the sculptor Gabriele Cerminara.
Among the most important group exhibitions she participated to:
Marvelousartgallery
"International Women's day"
March 2023
"Ingresso Libero" Atelier Montez, Rome. 2022
"New Jersey Book Art Symposium" - Rutgers University New Jersey, Usa. 2020
"Erotic Art Exhibition" Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf- London-2019
"XI Premio Internazionale" - Massenzio Arte - I.S.A. Rome - 2008
"Red Light District - Images of Desire" - Galerie Y-Burg - Amsterdam - 1998
"Escatologica" - Galleria Spaziotemporaneo . Milano - 1997
"Escatologica"- Palazzo Comunale. Siena - 1997
"Orizzonte Plurale" - Museo della Carta - Fabriano - 1995
Publications:
MarvelousArtgallery
"International Women's day 2023"
March 2023 issue
GoddessArtMag
January/February issue 2023
Alessandro Polidoro Editore: Illustration for the italian translation of "John Marr ed altri marinai" poetries by Herman Melville. Translation in italian by american literature Professor Dr. Gordon Poole.
Edizioni La Camera Verde:
Collana «Locandina d’artista. Jeu d’œuf pour violer les solutions régulières il faudrait bien naître»:
Collana «Il fotogramma d’argento»:
"La scelta" - Cristina Cerminara - 2004
ARTIST STATEMENT
"Sharing a Vision:
Art is exploring our unconscious universe"
I was born in Rome where I now live and work.
My art research is based on drawing techniques and multidisciplinary experiments.
In the last years I begun using a combination of visual languages such as collage, photography with analog and digital drawings.
My art research is founded on paradox, play, irony and the exploration of reality through its contradictions.
In the last years I focused my research on the exploration of feminine unconscious universe, on women's body perception in different cultures and on how strongly women are oppressed in many countries including our "progressive" Europe.
Although deeply connected with the difficult realities surrounding us nowadays my style remains often dreamy and visionary as expression of an archetypical unconscious universe.
I love expressing the immense energies of women souls and their deep connection with natural elements as these are often concealed and oppressed.
In my art I like creating images where powerful cosmic energies flow freely to expand as a women/human empowerment symbol.
It's my way of showing how deeply we humans are connected with each other and with our enviroment and how we can't think of ourselves as separated isolated units.
My mission in my art is to show how strongly we are entangled to nature, enviroment and each other.
Rome / Italy
