BIOGRAPHY
Born on Lake Garda (Italy), Silvia Righetti has discovered the passion for writing and painting very young. After participating in many national competitions, she moved to Venice, where she obtained a Degree in Architecture, specialising in Contemporary Theatre, and where she worked for independent projects and the Art and Architecture Biennale, having many collaborations with national and international artists. She completed her architectural studies in Paris, at the School of Architecture of Paris Belleville, and back to Venice she started a long collaboration with multimedia artist Federica Marangoni. She worked at the Remy Toledo Gallery in New York, and in 2007, she relocated to UK, where she has been involved in many multidisciplinary projects, at the same time continuing her creative research in painting and writing, exhibiting in galleries and participating in several group and solo exhibitions between Glasgow and London.
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PUBLICATIONS
House & Garden UK Magazine, May / March / April 2024
EXHIBITIONS
2022/2019 Camberwell Arts Festival Open Studios, London.
2016. Glasgow, UK. Solo Exhibition, “Lavarone”, Six Foot Gallery, The Pentagon Centre, Washington Street, G3.
2015. Glasgow, UK. Winter Group Exhibition, Six Foot Gallery, The Pentagon Centre, Washington Street, G3.
2012. London, UK. “Graveyard on Acid”, Solo Exhibition, Real World Gallery, Brick Lane, E1.
WRITING & ART DIRECTION
2018-2015. Krafta Doc International Art Making Film Festival, The Lighthouse, Glasgow. Founder and Director.
2014. Proposal for Venice Art Biennale 2015. An environmental installation by Kaarina Kaikkonen, Finland.
2014. Hayward Touring Curatorial Open 2014. Invisible Cities. Proposal for an innovative exhibition touring Britain in 2014/2015.
STATEMENT
There is a very strong affinity between the disciplines of painting and writing. Like a dancer following a choreography, the hand moves on the canvas or on the blank page, creating or discovering new realities, unexpected dimensions. My work is multidisciplinary, but I’m essentially a painter, or rather, as I like to call myself, a painter who writes or a writer who paints. I educate my hands and my mind as a painter, and I mix media like I mix colours. I’m strongly influenced by nature and landscape and fascinated by the immersive power of storytelling: I’ve developed a body of work which deftly subverts the perceived boundaries between representation and abstraction, and I like to investigate things on the edge, those without a name, which sometimes turn into something else. I’m looking for new ways to represent harmony between the unexpected and the systematic, and since I started painting with hypnotherapy, much of my work is also related to the evocations of the dream state: words pouring from objects or scenes of a daily life as a waterfall of memories.
