Carla Colombo Artist

 

Carla Colombo

Biography (Painting Section)

 

Carla Colombo was born, lives and works in Imbersago (Lc), at her studio ArteCarla in Via Brianza n. 16.

At a very young age she discovered a passion for colors and approached the world of self-taught painting, partially fulfilling the desire for discovery and research that accompanied her throughout her artistic career.

Her continuous research and love for art encouraged her to attend the School of Pure and Applied Art in Merate under the guidance of well-known masters of the area, in particular Maestro F. Torazza.

In the 90s, the meeting with Maestro A. Beretta of Milan gave her a new artistic energy that exploded in works that were increasingly personal and recognizable by their application and chromatic spontaneity.

Over the years she explores and experiments with different paths from the traditional canon and it is in these interpretations that she lets us glimpse a new world, bordering on the contemporary and the modern, always favoring the technique most congenial to her, the oil that she spreads admirably with energetic and spontaneous spatulas. She also expresses herself with watercolors, preferring the macchiaiola technique, the ink that she develops in fantasy creations - zentangle, mixed techniques for which she also uses recycled and natural materials, such as stones, sand, chalk, marble dust.

Since 1996, the year of her artistic recovery, she has held about one hundred solo exhibitions in various locations, she has participated in many group exhibitions organized in all the regions of Italy, but also abroad: Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Colombia, Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, United Kingdom, Romania, Russia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, Uruguay, Venezuela.

Many of her works are found in museums, associations, private collectors and public bodies.

An endless list of awards for her works that she has presented and participated in various national and international competitions, a long list that you can still view on her website www.artecarla.it.

She is awarded prestigious academic titles by prestigious Academies:

– Career Award by the association “Il Tempio” of Palermo

– International Academy “Il Convivio” of Castiglione di Sicilia (CT)

- International Academy “Greci-Marino” Verbano Academy of Letters, Arts, Sciences of Novara.

– City of New York Award 2019 for merits in artistic activity such as figurative art and literary art.

– Word Literary For Peace and Human Rights, International Ambassador Of Peace (International Ambassador of Peace), January 2021

- and many others.

Many art catalogues, (Avanguardie artistica, 2011, I Grandi Maestri, 2012, etc. etc.), art periodicals, newspapers, covers of association or private volumes, feature images of her works.

Passionate and assiduous supporter of the international artistic movement of mail art, she strives to disseminate its characteristics, methods and to capture the adhesion of other artists by organizing events without any profit-making purpose.

He has divulged and divulges the art of fellow artists, organizing artistic events on personal projects at his ArteCarla atelier, but also in different locations and collaborates free of charge with various associations with his artistic skills.

Many of his works have been donated for solidarity events and on his own initiative he has proposed personal solidarity initiatives.

He has dedicated a virtual gallery to the art of artists for several years, completing everything with personal reviews. In this regard, the substantial volume entitled LaVostraArte edited by Etabeta-ps has been published.

His artistic expression, which is a continuous externalization of emotions and research, has conquered over the years a well-defined space in the difficult world of art.

To go into detail about the above, it is advisable to consult the site http://www.artecarla.it

and his personal blog http://artecarlacolombo.blogspot.com which he personally manages and updates.