Chiara Ionta

I attended high school in my hometown, that had a very good classical high school comprising even an acting class. I’ve always loved art and I often made drawings or logos for school events.

My grandfather was a painter in his leisure time, so I was encouraged to follow my inclinations and to enroll at the Printmaking course of the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, in which I spent five wonderful years studying art and learning new skills thanks to both regular lessons and seminars and workshops.

During the last five years I focused my research on monotype, because I see it as a technique which encloses both the freedom of painting and the poetic gestures of printmaking.
Initially I used the most spread monotype technique, involving glass plates and oil or acrylic colors, before using a plate of metal and chalcographic inks instead, after having studied this way to realize them on some Printmaking books.
This, together with the new media I’d learnt from the painting classes, helped me to develop my own language : to me, painting and printmaking are not only two separate techniques between which an art student has to choose, but two sides of the same coin, two media through which it is possible to achieve a result, that is the...

2012-2017
Academy of Fine Arts, via Ripetta 222, Rome

 2014 : ‘Artisti cinesi e italiani’, Palazzo Velli,
Rome:

‘Punti di vista’, Temple University,Rome;

‘Arte e Sport 6’, Rome.

 2015: ‘ Xilografia senza confini’, gallery ‘ La linea’,
Rome.

 2016: ‘Sinergie ad arte 5’, via Volsinio 21, Rome.

‘Arte e sport 7’, Rome;

‘ Xilografia senza confini 2’, gallery
Porta Latina, Rome;

‘Octale’, Academy of Fine
Arts,Frosinone.

 2017: ‘Tiny Biennale- Yellow’, Temple University,
Rome.

'Corpoxcorpo' Make Make Gallery, Rome

'Second exhibit of micropainting', Segni
(Rome)

 2018: ‘Sub Piele', solo show, American Corner-
Alexandru si Aristia Aman Library,
Craiova (Romania) - One-man show

'Ars Ventis', San Vittore del Lazio,
...