COME FIAMMA S’ACCENDE DA FUOCO CHE BALZA/ DISPOSITIVO DI MISURAZIONE DELL’ANIMA
2022
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Biografia essenziale
Shilha Cintelli born in Empoli (FI) in 1986, where she currently lives and works.
Artist, restorer, she teaches painting and drawing courses. Degree in Painting – Visual Arts and Restore of Cultural Heritage in Academy of Fine Arts in Florence
Restorer and painter by training, in 2017 she began her
artistic journey, when she felt the need to tell that dialogue that is created between the more or less daring meanings of
the inner world, when we become aware of that something that we consider external to our existence. A continuous
research that is complex and intimate at times, a necessary condition for translating thought into image: thus
immortalizing the natural sequence of emotional seasons becomes the common thread of artistic thought, a story to be
created almost a sort of “still image”, through the use and experimentation with various materials. An introspective
gesture that alternates painting, drawing and ceramics with installations or sculptures. Thus I respond to a quantum and
free language, defined by an interest in the analogies present between the relevant facts of my life path and those
belonging to the collective universe by using philosophical projects.
EDUCATIONS
2019 Qualification for teaching art of Fine Arts of Florence
2010 Degree in Painting, Accademy of Fine Arts of Florence
2008 Degree in Collaborator Restorer of Cultural Heritage of Fine Art of Florence
AWARDS
XXXIV Florence Prize
Visual Arts Section
SILVER FLOWER 2016
Palazzo Vecchio, Salone dei Cinquecento – FLORENCE
SOLO EXHIBITION
2019 March / June “Free Mind, Free Body – on the trail of the sign” as part of the initiatives related to the week of the
brain at the Sintesis Center, Ponte a Egola – PISA
2018 June MuDEV STUDI APERTI – contemporary art exhibition spin-off of the International Ceramics Festival of
Montelupo Fiorentino at Facto, Mont elupo F.no – FLORENCE
2018 February / March “Internal Architecture” at the Quaranthana Theater of San Miniato –
2017 February / March “Esser-ci * CONTEMPORARY DIALOGUES_ * cogito ergo sum”,
at the Salvadorini Gallery, Santa Croce sull’Arno – PISA
2014 June / July “ART AND DERIVATIVES | HIDDEN IDENTITY” at Palazzo Bastogi, Regional Council of
Tuscany – FLORENCE
GROUPS EXHIBITION
2020 October Be**pArt curated by Atelier Montez gallery, during the Rome Art Week
2019 13 December / 12 January exhibition finalists FIORA PRIZE at the Santa Maria della Scala,
Museum Complex – SIENA
2019 12/27 October FIORART | FIORA PRIZE shows finalist artists at the Granaio Lorense – Alberese GROSSETO
2019 June 21 / July 21 “THE INTERIOR COLOR, CHROMATISMS AND APPEARANCES IN CONTEMPORARY
CERAMICS” exhibition curated by Matteo Zauli, at MONTELUPO FIORENTINO – FLORENCE
2017 February / March European Project “MNEMOSINE EXHIBITION – IDENTITY”
with the installation Pensiero Written at Palazzina Uzielli, MUSEO LEONARDIANO – VINCI (FI)
2016 ANCIENT COMPANY OF PAIOLO at the Via Larga Gallery – FLORENCE
2015 SPOLETO FESTIVAL ART EXPO ‘at Historic Houses of Spoleto – UMBRIA
CATALOUGES
FIORA PRIZE, finalist exhibition curated by Alessandra Barberini and Ilaria Magni, 2019 IT
THE INTERIOR COLOR, CHROMATISMS AND APPEARANCES IN CONTEMPORARY CERAMICS curated
by Matteo Zauli, 2019 IT
ARTISTS’ RESIDENCES
Selected for aa artist residency from March to April 2019 in the village of Fuping in CHINA, as part of the
project ceramic road Faenza, curated by Beppe Olmeti, but canceled to the pandemic in progress
ASSISTANT / COLLABORATION CONTEMPORARY PROJECTS
2019 October / April Collaboration as an artist assistant for the “Double Circuit | Art, Design and Craftsmanship”
project curated by Matteo Zauli, promoted and organized by Fondazione Museo Montelupo Onlus and by the
Municipality of Scandicci
2018/2019 Co-founder of Facto -Tuscan Creative Factory, space in Montelupo Fiorentino, from 2018 to 2019