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Curriculum Vitae

Name: Mara
Surname: Moschini
Nationality: Italian
Date of birth: 16 th of june,1969
Place of birth: Cuneo, Italy
Studio: Frazione Bedoira, 1 CAP 12010 Gaiola, Valle Stura (Cuneo)
Telephone and fax: 0171-261002
Mobile: 349-4423299
E-mail: maramoschini@virgilio.it
Web site: www.maramoschini.com

 

Qualifications

School Year 1986-1987
Artistic High School Leaving Certificate issued by the High School "Liceo Artistico Statale Ego Bianchi" Cuneo, Italy. Vote 50/60.

School Year 1990-1991
Artistic Academic Leaving Certificate, issued by the Academy of fine Arts "Accademia delle Belle Arti" Carrara, Italy. Vote 110/110 and lode.

School Year 1991-1992
Qualification title as authorized expert for the maintenance of marble and stone materials, a course based on a stage and some training works as:

Pietrasanta:

  • Retouching and polishing of the marble Bas-relief for "Leopoldo II", by Vincenzo Santini (1848) located in the Square Duomo;
  • Polishing and repairing of San Giacinto Baptistry's Portal, an ancient beautiful Portal created during the XVIII century.

Florence, at the "Opificio delle Pietre dure":

  • Polishing and repairing of the "Monumento funerario di Vittorio Alfieri" (Funeral Monument of Vittorio Alfieri) by Antonio Canova, located in the Basilica of Santa Croce;
  • Polishing and repairing of the "Monumento a Gioacchino Rossini" (Monument to Gioacchino Rossini) by Cassioli, located in the Basilica of Santa Croce.

 

Working experiences

Years 1988-1989
Craftmanship experience with the sculptor Blasco Pellacani in his Atélier of Pietrasanta, (Lucca) and improving the marble technique

Years 1990-1991
Experience in the Atélier of Paolo Bresciani (Professional Laboratory of Clalk Sculpture Techniques).
Various works in artistic laboratories and foundries around Pietrasanta (Lucca), Italy.

Years 1992-2005
Shares an artistic Atélier with two sculptors located in Pietrasanta, (Lucca). Italy.

Tutoring and teaching in some stages organized by the "Centro di Formazione Professionale, Pietrasanta"
Marble Workshop Stage for the "Istituto d'Arte" and the "Liceo Artistico" in Lucca, Italy.

Years 1993-1994
Professional collaboration with the C.R.E.A Association in the Schools of Massarosa and Viareggio (Lucca), Italy.

Years 1995-1996
Reconstruction and maintenance work in the "Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus" in Singapore, under the direction of the sculptor Roberta Giovannini and restorer Carlo Sassetti.

Years 1998-2005
Professional collaboration with the Sculpture Atélier "Giuseppe Giannoni" located in via S. Maria n° 2 at Pietrasanta (Lucca), Italy: final executor of classic and contemporary marble sculptures in particular of the works of the artist Igor Mitoraj.

Year 1999
Retouchinging reconstruction of the front door of Calci's Carthusian Monastery in Calci, Pisa under the direction of Carlo Sassetti. Italy.

Years 2000-2002
Teacher in some Artistic High-Schools, Lucca , Italy.

Year 2005
Teacher of "Artistic Education Artistica" in the medium school of the Province of Cuneo, with year assignment of support.

 

Prizes and Scholarships

School Year 1989-1990
Thanks to a Scholarship released by the Academy of Fine Arts of Carrara, attended studies at the Sculpture Academy of Munich, Germany.

Year 1993
Prize for "La fontana" (The Fountain) at the First Painting Contest in Fanano (Modena), Italy.

Year 1997
Prize for "La carta scolpita" (The Carved Paper). Mercurio Art Galley, Viareggio (Lucca), Italy.

 

Symposia

Years 1988, 1989 and 1990
"Artisti in Piazza" (Artists in the Square), Seravezza (Lucca), Italy.

Year 1993
"XI Simposio internazionale di Scultura su Pietra" (11° International Symposium of Stone Sculptures) Fanano (Modena), Italy.

Year 1994
"Scogliera viva" (Alive Cliffs), Caorle (Venezia), Italy.
"Scolpire in piazza a Teulada" (Carving in the Squares of Teulada) Teulada (Cagliari), Italy.

Year 1996
"Premio sculture di arredo 1996" (Sculptures for House Design's Prize), Marina di Carrara (Massa), Italy.

Year 1997
"Il paesaggio domani" (Tomorrow's View), Montbrison, Cedex, France.
"Art Symposium for Young Artists in Europe", Vasternorrland, Sweden, as representant of the young italian artists (Goya Program- Generating Opportunities for young Artists).
"Sculture su legno dell'Etna" (Sculptures with the Wood of Mount Etna), Linguaglossa (Catania), Italy.
"Pittura e scultura" (Paintings and Sculptures), Pietrasanta (Lucca), Italy.

Year 1999
"Kunst in Stein" Internationale Bildhauersymposium (Art in Stone, International Sculpture Symposium) Wunsiedel, Germany.

Year 2000
Primer Simposium Internacional de Escultura Carlos III (First International Sculpture Symposium) Colonia de Fuente Palmera, Cordoba, Spain.

Year 2001
International Stone Sculpture Symposium in Itoman city, Okinawa, Japan.

 

Contests

Year 1990
"Premio Italia per le Arti Visive Beato Angelico" (Beato Angelico Visual Arts Award) Certaldo (Florence), Italy.

Year 1997
"Concorso per un monumento in Cuneo al matematico G. Peano" (Contest for a Cuneo Tribute to the mathematician G.Peano) and exposition sketches.
First Prize for the National Sculpture Contest named: "Cesare Pavese; his sceneries, characters and myths" St Stefano Belbo, (Cuneo), Italy.

 

Publications

Year 1998
"Amleto" (Hamlet), Bronze Statue, publishe by the famous Italian Magazine: "Quadri e Sculture".

Year 1999
"Figura di donna" (Woman's Figure), Drawing Brochure issued by the U.R.P. Mental Hospital Department of the St. Giovanni Battista Hospital, Torino, Italy.

Year 2000
"Uomo e donna" (Man and Woman), Drawing Brochure issued by the U.R.P. Mental Hospital Department of the St. Giovanni Battista Hospital, Torino, Italy.

Year 2007
"Doppio pensiero" (Double thought), sculpture in marble published in the magazine "Arte contemporanea" bimonthly of information and critic of art , Year I number 5 - January-February - 2007, in occasion of the presentation "Galleria proposte d'Arte Contemporanea" Ing. Marco Golzi - Via Barsanti n° 18 - 55045 Pietrasanta (LU) Tel. 0584-70407.
www.propostedarte.com info@propostedarte.com

Year 2008
Exhibition "i Segreti ... del Mestiere artisti per il Duomo":
- "Pietrasanta: trenta artisti per il Duomo di S. Martino", article published on the weekly magazine "Toscana Oggi - vita nova" 3rd August 2008
- "Arte per il Duomo", article published on "Pietrasanta Magazine" Summer 2008
- marked on the magazine "Rd'A", quarterly of culture and information of the visual arts year 2 number 5.

 

Sculptures in Museums

Year 1993
"Man" (1991), coloured cement - Cultural Association "CePASA", Spoleto, Italy.

Year 1996
"Ophelia - Hamlet" (1996), coloured terracotta - Museo dei Bozzetti, Cultural Centre "Luigi Russo" Pietrasanta (Lucca), Italy.

Year 1999
"Drawing" (1999), watercolor on paper, "Documentation centre on paper manufacture", Pietrabuona, Pescia (Pistoia), Italy.

Year 2002 - today
I am present in the "Fondazione Antonio Fineschi" (Antonio Fineschi Foundation) of Prato with documentation and works (seat: street Amendola n.7 Prato), Italy.

 

Collective exibitions

Year 1987
Art Gallery "Artstudio", Cuneo, Italy.

Year 1989
"Universo donna" (Woman's Universe) St. Agostino Cloister, Pietrasanta (Lucca), Italy.
"Giovani artisti per Capalbio" (Young Artists in Capalbio), Capalbio (Grosseto), Italy.

Year 1991
"Maggio al Chiostro" (May at the Cloister) Maddaloni (Caserta), Italy.
"Tra fiume e mare" (Between River and Sea) Bocca di Magra (La Spezia), Italy.

Year 1993
"Rencontre Artistique des Sculpteurs des Trois Provinces" (Artistic Meeting of the Sculptors of the three Areas) Ville de Tende, France.
"ContemporaneArte", Pescia (Pistoia), Italy.

Year 1994
"Marmi al Forte" (Marbles at Forte) Forte dei Marmi (Lucca), Italy.
"l'Occhio" (The Eye) Borgo S. Dalmazzo (Cuneo), Italy.

Year 1995
"In the Footsteps of Michelangelo: Five Sculptors from Pietrasanta" Llangollen, Liverpool and Manchester, Great Britain.

Year 1997
"Tre scultori" (Three Sculptors) St. Croce Cloister, Florence, Italy.
"Annuario D'arte", presentazione catalogo ed. 1996/97 (Yearly Catalogue:introducing the 1996/97 catalogue), S. Paolo all'Orto, Pisa, Italy.

Years 1997-1998
"Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara e Akademie der Bildenden Kunste Munchen" Mostra itinerante (Route Exhibition Carrara-Munchen), Italy-Germany.

Years 1998-2000
"Leonardesca" Artistic Route Exhibition organized by the Centro Internazionale di cultura e spiritualità Fra Benedetto (Fra Benedetto International Centre of Culture and Spirituality) Villico (Lucca), Italy.

Year 1998
"Italienska Konstnarer" Sweden.
"Dieci Scultori a Mulazzo" (Ten Sculptors in Mulazzo), Arpiola di Mulazzo (Massa), Italy.
"Flora artificiale in un Parco naturale" (Artificial Flowers inside a Natural Park) Villa Schiff, Montignoso (Massa), Italy.
"Concorso per il Monumento a Giuseppe Peano" (A Prize for the Monument to G. Peano), S. Giovanni Church, Cuneo, Italy.

Year 1999
"Arabeschi d'arte" (Art Arabesques) Querceta (Lucca), Italy.
"Giorni d'arte" (Days of Art) Marina di Carrara (Massa Carrara), Italy.
"I colori della vita" (Colours of Life) St. Augustine's Cloister, Pietrasanta (Lucca), Italy.
"Mostra della pietra lavorata" (Carved Stone Exhibition) Strada in Casentino (Arezzo), Italy.
"Colori nuovi sulle antiche carte di Pescia" (New Colours upon Ancient Maps in Pescia) Pietrabuona - Pescia (Pistoia), Italy.

Year 2000
"Giorni d'arte" (Days of Art) Marina di Carrara (Massa), Italy.
"Mostra di scultura" (Exhibition of sculpture), Piazza S. Lorenzo, Florence, Italy.
"Mostra della pietra lavorata" (Carved Stone Exhibition) Strada in Casentino (Arezzo), Italy.
"Omaggio a Francesco" (A Tribute to St. Francis), Italy. Travelling exhibition:

  • Francis ST. Stigmata's Church, Rome;
  • ST. Croce's Cloister, Florence;
  • Capuchin's Monastery, Fiesole;
  • St. Francis' Church, Arezzo;
  • Verna's Sanctuary, Assisi, Perugia.

Years 2000-2001
"Elisir Art Gallery", Modugno (Bari), Italy.

Year 2001
"Mostra della pietra lavorata" (Carved Stone Exhibition) Strada in Casentino (Arezzo), Italy.

Year 2002
Prima mostra di pittura e scultura al femminile "Insieme è... di più" (First Exhibition of Female Paintings and Sculptures "Toghether means... more") Palazzo Ducale, Massa, Italy.
"I colori della vita: una carta dipinta per volare" (The Colours of Life: a Painted Paper for Flying) Pietrasanta (Lucca ), Italy.
"Salviamo il Duomo" (Let's save the Cathedral) St. Augustine's Cloister, Pietrasanta (Lucca), Italy.
"Mostra della pietra lavorata" (Carved Stone Exhibition) Strada in Casentino (Arezzo), Italy.
"c'Arte d'identità" Art Gallery, Pietrasanta (Lucca), Italy.

Year 2003
Seconda Mostra di pittura e scultura al femminile "Insieme... è di più, come eravamo, come siamo, come vorremmo essere.", (Second Exhibition of Female Paintings and Sculptures "Toghether means... more, how we were, how we are, how we would be") Palazzo Ducale, Massa, Italy.
"Dipingendo e scolpendo in Versilia" (Painting and sculpturing in Versilia) Querceta of Seravezza (Lucca) Italy.

Year 2008
Exhibition "i Segreti... del Mestiere artisti per il Duomo", Battistero Via Garibaldi, Pietrasanta (Lucca) Italy.

Year 2009
Exhibition "Verso l'iperuranio", at the gallery Studio d'Arte Pinto, Pietrasanta (Lucca) Italy.

Year 2010
Exhibition "Humanitate", at the gallery Studio d'Arte Pinto, Pietrasanta (Lucca) Italy.
Exhibition "Ab Urbe Condita", at the gallery Studio d'Arte Pinto, Pietrasanta (Lucca) Italy.
Exhibition “Etichette d’autore” Versilia Wine Art, cured by Lodovico Gierut, at the Chiesa di S. Agostino, Pietrasanta (Lucca) Italy.
Exhibition “Alberi”, Circolo “Convivio”, Lido di Camaiore (Lucca) Italy.

Year 2011
Exhibition “Torri”, at the Gallery Studio d’Arte Pinto, Pietrasanta (Lucca) Italy.
Exhibition “Massaciuccoli. Il lago degli artisti”, cured by Lodovico Gierut, Scuderie Granducali, Seravezza (Lucca) Italy.
Exhibition “L’Arte per l’Arte”, Comunità Parrocchiale San Donato in Polverosa, Firenze Italy.
Exhibition “Versilia”, at the Caffè Storico-Letterario “Giubbe Rosse” cured by Lodovico Gierut, Firenze Italy.

Year 2012
Exhibition “La fede come fonte d’ispirazione per l’arte”, Firenze Italy.

Year 2013
Exhibition “Itinerarte”, esperienze e percorsi d’arte contemporanea, Savigliano (Cuneo) Italy.
Exhibition “Gli scultori dello Stagi: opere al Museo dei Bozzetti”, at the Complesso di S. Agostino, Pietrasanta (Lucca) Italy.
Exhibition of international sculptures “Il Leone e i suoi simboli”, cured by Erica Cavalli and Lodovico Gierut, comitato promotore 500° anniversario del Lodo di Papa Leone X, Valdicastello Carducci, Querceta, Cardoso and Villa Bertelli at Forte dei Marmi (Lucca) Italy.
Exhibition “Quelli dell’Artistico...” in festa 1963-2013, festa del cinquantennio del Liceo Artistico “Ego Bianchi”, at the Sala mostre della Provincia di Cuneo Italy.

Year 2014
Exhibition of contemporary art “Visioni interiori” cured by Roberto Borra, at the Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea “La Conchiglia”, Torino Italy.

Year 2015
Exhibition "DonnaScultura XIII edizione" - Chiostro di Sant’Agostino Pietrasanta (LU)
Event "Tutti a Borgo!" - Arte, musica e sapori tra le storiche vie di Borgo Nuovo
Exhibition Paratissima - Torino Esposizioni corso Massimo d’Azeglio n.15 Torino

 

Personal exibitions

Year 2003
"Genesi", sculptures of Mara Moschini, Cultural Centre "Luigi Russo" - Grasce hall - Pietrasanta (Lucca) Italy.

Year 2014
“Mara Moschini scultrice”, Castello della Rovere, Vinovo (Torino) Italy. Presentation cured by Paolo Pelù and Lodovico Gierut.

 

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