Knots (detail), 2007 marble, wrought iron nodes and iron frame, 56x20x21cm Sculpture

Biography Elena Mutinelli, sculptress figurative, was born in Milan on 4th July 1967. After achieving the degree in Sculpture at Accademia di Belle Arti in Brera (Brera School of Fine Arts), in 1989/1990 academic year with the teachers A. Cavaliere, Cascella, L. Silvestri, in 1990/91 she moved to Pietrasanta (Lucca - Tuscany), in order to learn marble working technique. In the years 1992-1995, she worked between Milan and Pietrasanta and then, in 1995, she definitively settled in Milan, where she had the opportunity to weave together professional relationships with famous Art Galleries From 1998 until 2004 she decided to open a new studio, where she could completely dedicate herself to sculpture and to the work of Milan Cathedral: in these years, in fact, she permanently set herself up as external partner of La Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo di Milano (Time-honoured Factory of Milan Cathedral), for whom she had been working occasionally since 1992. During the collaboration with La Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo di Milano, she was involved in the reproduction of original marble works with the creation of marble work copies, she made in her studio. Elena Mutinelli’s works are parts of many private and public collections, among which the most important. Elena Mutinelli’s works are parts of many private and public collections, among which the most important are: - 2000: Owens Corning, an international firm that produces thermo-acoustic insulating materials, bought Elena Mutinelli’s works, that were realized with its own production materials. The same year, these sculptures were exhibited with the precious Antonio Guardi paintings and other important ancient works of art at Museo Lo Studiolo (Lo Studiolo Museum), in Milan. - 2001: the Jolly Hotel Madison Tower in New York bought many Elena Mutinelli’s graphic works of art, that now are in all the rooms of the hotel. - 2004: Siena Art History University acquired the work “Nell’arena” (“In the arena”), that has become a part of the University collection, whose director is Enrico Crispolti. - 2005: the village of Reana del Royale unveiled the monument “Vuoto di mani congiunte” (“Emptiness of joined hands”), a monumental work of art made out of Fior di Roccia del Timao marble: this work of art was bought by AFDS and placed in Reana del Royale municipal square. (Udine - Northern Italy). - 2008: Butan Gas, a sculptured work of art for a private collection. - 2009 Tia Private collection, Denver.