Vera Di Bianca

Text written for the exhibition at the Taylor Foundation by art historian Veronica Bianchi and translated by Rosella Di Niola.

Vera Di Bianca began her artistic training in the very prestigious Artistic High School located in Via Ripetta where she was a pupil of the teacher and artist of the Italian pop-art movement Cesare Tacchi. The teacher immediately became a referent in artistic matters and helped her in her creative journey. During this period when she was pushed towards autonomy and towards the search for a personal artistic identity, she directed her gaze towards painting and costume; In accordance with her choices as a teenager and the studies pursued at the Academy of Fine Arts, she is interested not only in painting but also in visual art and crafts.

In 2005 she trained in weaving and followed Marcella Polloni's courses and goldsmith's courses directed by Carla Yanez in Santiago de Chile where Vera specialized in these techniques also having as an interest the study of the Mapuche civilization, Amerindian inhabitants originally from central and southern Chile. Also in 2005 she made drawings of this tribe and organized an exhibition entitled; “La mirada inquieta” in the premises of the Catholic University of Santiag...

Education and professional experience

2017-2021- Artistic education assistant at the Municipal Conservatory of Art.
2015-2016 - Professor of plastic arts at College.
2014-2015 - Professor of visual arts at the College.
2015 - Master in the teaching profession. Paris 1 University, Panthéon-Sorbonne.
2011 - National School of Fine Arts in Paris. Live model course.
2010 - Higher School of Arts and Graphic Industries Estienne, Paris.
2008 - Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.
Diploma di arti visive e discipline dello spettacolo (Master 2 level).
Mention very well with congratulations from the jury.
2007 - Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.
Diploma di pittura (Master 1 level). Mention very well with congratulations from the jury.

2006 - National School of Decorative Arts, Paris, Erasmus.
2003 - Artistic High School “Ripetta”, Rome. Artistic Baccalaureate.

Personal exhibitions

2020- 8th Festival of Printmaking. Event organized by the Manifestampe Federation, May 26, Paris

2011 - Parade-Performance. Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. Creation of ten dresses and
of a dance choreography, June, Rome.

2008 - El jardín del chamán. Video-installation, Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.
Exhibition of five woven dresses on the theme of shamanism, May-June, Rome.

2005 - Las miradas worried. Catholic University of Chile.
Exhibition of drawings representing the Mapuche, October-December, Santiago de Chile.

2004 - Cromatica. Exhibition of paintings. June, Cinéclub Alphaville, Rome.

Collective exhibitions

2019- The evasionnists. Salle Capitant City hall of the 5th arrondissement, June 2020, Paris.

2018 - From one bridge to another. Béatrice Bellat Gallery, April-June 2018, Paris.

2018 - Engraving. May-June 2018. Garges-lès-Gonesse town hall.

2017 - Drawings by engravers. November 2016-January 2017, Taylor Foundation.
Feet and hands. January-February, Béatrice Ballet gallery, Paris.
All in the saddle. October-December 2017, Béatrice Bellat gallery, Paris.

2016 - The invitation to travel. March-April, Béatrice Bellat gallery, Paris.
2015 - Anonymity. June-July, B...