Maria Rosa Muzzi

Maria Rosa Muzzi was born in Faenza, a city famous for its ceramic art, where she lived until 1970. Having majored in the plastic arts in High School, She attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna and the Institute of Ceramic Art in Faenza. She moved to Rome in 1971 where she has taught Artistic Education. For many years she devoted herself entirely to painting, but more recently, returned to her first love, clay e bronze.Muzzi represents the humble one, the farmers, personalities that do not make exemplary actions, historical, decisive. They live their daily life without realizing to be represented and to become immortal in the painting. They do not put themselves in laying. They are represented in their natural human condition. What is important is not what they do but how the artist shows us the vision of this subject. Are they simple people? We almost understand it more from the pictorial technique than from other references. With a wide painting, constituted by juxtaposition of wide clear chromatic areas, Muzzi uses a simple language to depict simple ones.In my opinion exist some links with Gauguin, with the sturdiness of his compositions, few figures, and wide masses. But also relations with Ottone Rosai, also if interpre...

The creative way of Maria Rosa Muzzi begins to the age of just 10 years, when she starts following the first drawing school. Her formation goes on with the institute of art the ceramics in Faenza, town which the Muzzi was born in, and then the Artistic Secondary school frequented in Bologna, where gets the teacher title of master of the ceramics. The moment the vocation to represent the humble ones finds out, it when, after the marriage, visiting Calabria she pauses to observe for long hours the fishermen or the rural ones working the fields. We are in the 1980s. This moment will mark in the depth all the next creative experience of Muzzi. Our artists stylistic way is driven by various references.

2003RomaForum Interart Le grandi mostre europee
2003NapoliCollettiva Rassegna artistica Maschio Angioino
2003RomaCastel S.Angelo Manifestazione Culturale
2004 Roma Personale Tempio di Dioniso
2004 Roma Palazzo Marini .Presentazione monografia di Maria
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