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Chiara Rapaccini

Rome, Italy

Chiara Rapaccini, aka RAP, was born in Florence. She currently lives in Rome where she is head of th...

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Chiara Rapaccini

Joined In 2013

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(11 Followers)

About the artist

Chiara Rapaccini

Joined In 2013

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(11 Followers)

ABOUT
EXHIBITIONS
RECOGNITION

Chiara Rapaccini, aka RAP, was born in Florence. She currently lives in Rome where she is head of the child illustration faculty at the European Design Institute. A designer, painter, illustrator, sculptor, she also writes and illustrates children and adult books. Her vignettes appeared regularly on the Espresso magazine and on “Billy Il Vizio di Leggere” on TG1 news, she collaborated with Espresso online as a blogger and with Linkiesta as a correspondent. Personal shows of her work have been premiered in Rome, Milan, Naples, Genoa and Venice, Turin, Osaka, Tokyo, Bruxelles, Paris and New York. Her project MARIO MONICELLI AND RAP, 100 YEARS OF CINEMA” has been displayed In New York, Buenos Aires, Cuba and Italy, in Naples and Venice; at the Cinema Biennale in 2015 and, together with the photogrpher Andrea Vierucci, at the GAMC Lorenzo Viani in Viareggio, during the Lucca Film Festival 2016. Chiara Rapaccini writes the satirical leaflet “Amori Sfigati” (Hapless love) that has been very successful on Facebook. In 2016 she received the “Andrea Pazienza” Award as the best Web author. Her latest novel “ROSSA” was published in 2019 by La Nave di Teseo Editore.
In 2019 she made the documentary "AMORI DI LATTA - close encounters with te...

EXHIBITIONS and WORKSHOPS
2018
A AMA B CHE AMA C CHE AMA D –Galleria il Vicolo, Milano, Febbraio 2018
NOSANVALENTINODAY – AMORISFIGATI LIVE -Hart, Napoli, 14 Febbraio 2018
A AMA B CHE AMA C CHE AMA D –Galleria il Vicolo, Genova Primavera 2018
RAP – Studio MOCA, Roma (Dicembre 2018)
2017
RAP – Studio MOCA, Roma (Dicembre 2017)
AMORI – La Feltrinelli- Piazza dei Martiri- Napoli

2016

RAP A MONTI 3– Mostra diffusa nelle botteghe del Rione Monti- Roma
MATITE DIGITALI – Festival del Fumetto di Cosenza “Le strade del Pesaggio” - Cosenza
ESSERE DONNA OGGI (Elio) – Chiara Rapaccini e Franny Thiery – Galleria B17- Roma
MARIO - Chiara Rapaccini e Andrea Vierucci per Monicelli. GAMC Galleria d'arte Moderna e Contemporanea Lorenzo Viani - Lucca Film Festival 2016 - Viareggio
AMORI SFIGATI - grafiche di Chiara Rapaccini. Waiting Invano San Valentino -Galleria il Vicolo - Milano

2015
Collettiva Rapaccini-Luciani-Fagnani “Lo Spaventapasseri non ha mai spaventato nessuno” - Marocchi Design Showroom - Imola
Installazione “Mario Monicelli y RAP 100 años de cine - ICAIC "Fresa y Chocolate" - La Habana
Installazione “FANTASMI” Omaggio a Mario Monicelli- Biennale Cinema di Venezia - Palazzo del Casinò
Installazione “Mario...

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