SILVIA BATTISTUZZI

ARTIST STATEMENT:

My work is informed by the subjective and interpersonal relationships that I establish with places. It is linked to those stories and experiences. I am primarily a painter,  but I also work with photography, installations and art objects.

I am most interested in how people relate to their environment, nature; with its contingencies. I elicit the power to resist with simple objects in a close and vital experience. I often use waste material in a concrete or allegorical way, thus repurposing them as an object that would have been otherwise discarded.

BIO

Battistuzzi was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina; and graduated as a Psychologist, from the National University of Buenos Aires (U.B.A.). She trained in drawing and painting in workshops of the Asociación Estímulo de Bellas Artes (AEBA) in Buenos Aires, in the workshops of the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid (CBA), Spain, and in art history seminars in Florence (Italy). She has lived for years in the argentine Patagonia.

She participates in art clinics with Eduardo Médici, and continues to develop her art practice.
Her awards include – 1st prize in Pintura Paleta Artística (Painting Artistic Palette)- 2022 of the Society of Plastic Artists (SAAP-Buenos Aires, Argentina)- Mentions of Jury in Salón Pequeño Formato- Artvilo 2022 and Salón Invierno SAAP 2022 (Buenos Aires, Argentina)1st prize in Pintura Salón Otoño SAAP (Painting at the Autumn Salon of the Argentine Society of Plastic Artists -SAAP-Buenos Aires, Argentina); 1st prize in Pintura Abstracta en Asociación Estímulo de Bellas Artes (Abstract Painting at the Stimulus Association of Fine Arts (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - as well as participated in three Biennials in Patagonia – 2015, 2017 and 2019-2020(Argentina)

Her paintings were included in the New York Latin American Art Triennial, NYLAAT 2022 - Argentine delegation at the Argentine Consulate in New York - September 2022.

In 2018 she participated in the Arkane Artist Residence, Morocco.

She has exhibited in solo and group shows in Argentina, USA, Malasya, Paraguay, Belgium, Spain, Ecuador, Denmark, Nepal, Morocco and Italy.

Her artwork is in the collections of the Municipal Museum “Juan Sánchez” (Gral. Roca- Río Negro - Argentine),  the Faculty of Education Sciences of Río Negro and Neuquén (Cipolletti, Río Negro, Argentine). And in private collections in Argentina - Cuore di Donna International, Italy; Arkane Association, Morocco.