Dreaming Painting

"Lucia Simone (Perugia, 1986) is one of the most interesting exponents of the so-called Post-Internet Art, a definition coined in 2006 by the American artist Marisa Olson to describe her own work and that of some artists close to her, divided between a traditionally “offline” and a very strong focus on online surfing. In her words, Post-Internet Art literally means: “The art I produce after surfing the net”. Lucia Simone, artist of the Millennials generation , works according to the methodologies of Post-Internet Art, reinterprets contemporaneity through a careful work of recovery of images that can be taken directly by her, recovered from books on the history of photography, taken from glossy magazines or select on the web from the thousands of free images of Google Generation." (Chiara Canali) BIOGRAPHY Lucia Simone was born in 1986 in Perugia. She lives and works in Rome. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, attending the four-year course in Painting and then the two-year course in Performing Arts and Disciplines. He worked as a painting assistant at the chair of Gianfranco Notargiacomo. He is present in the VI Repertoire of Italian Engravers, published by Faenza. He has received several awards including an artist residency on the occasion of the FIG Bilbao International Prize, he has exhibited in several museums including Macro La Pelanda (RM), Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art and in prestigious places such as Palazzo Montecitorio and Palazzo Vecchio on the occasion of the Florence Prize. Of particular note was Uncanny at Interzone Galleria (RM) where the relevance to themes with a strong emotional impact prevailed. This research is repeated in Realtà Consumata at Fondamenta Gallery with an in-depth analysis in the Inside Art magazine of December 2018. In December 2019 he carried out an artist residency in one of the ateliers of the MACRO ASILO (Museo Arte Contemporanea Roma). At the end of 2021 he exhibited his works at Iaga Contemporary Art (Romania) with a solo show entitled Signal Lost curated by Chiara Canali. In 2023 she presents two solo exhibitions curated by Saveria Colosimo: Mad World , at the Gallerati Gallery in Romeand Last Flowers at the former Santa Maria della Misericordia hospital in Perugia. She was recently selected as a finalist for the Luigi Candiani Prize organized by the SAC (Spazio Arte Contemporanea), and for the Arte Laguna Prize whose collective exhibition was held in 2023 at the Arsenale of Venice.