Donatella Richtman

Donatella Richtman Cinquini
By Ute BenJosef

The Spirit of the Eternal Feminine

Her sculptures have an indescribable attraction. They arrest the observer, and leave an abiding impression. Donatella's art is essentially focused on the human figure. She combines the aesthetic tradition of her native Florence with the multi-layered humanism of her Jewish psyche. What makes her work new and fresh is the feminine spirit, already emergent this century by Chagall.

Symbolic Work

The representation of a Pregnant Woman becomes the representation of pregnancy itself: the woman sits in full girth on the floor, her face reaching up to the whole universe, taking and receiving the endless mystery, carrying life within her. The cercle, the sphere - the "great globe itself" - becomes the symbol of perfection. The distress of a child is transmuted into the distress of his mother, encompassing him with her sympathetic presence.

In the spirit of the archetypal feminine, Donatella is also creator of fountains. In them, the cycle of birth, life and death is united into a whole. The Zurich City Council has commissioned one of these fountains for the Leimbach cemetery.

Spectrum

Donatella Richtman Cinquini was born in Florence in 1948...

studied art in pietrasanta

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DONATELLA RICHTMAN CINQUINI
Milestones

1985 Exhibition in Rorbas, Switzerland
1987 Exhibition, Galerie am Platz, Eglisau, Switzerland
1987 Exhibition Hotel Euler, Basel, Switzerland
1989 Exhibition in Zurich, Switzerland
1990 Creation of the Aurora-Award, official
Television Advertising Distributor of Switzerland
1990 Exhibition at Gaon Centre in Geneva, Switzerland
1991 The Fountain of Eternity, monumental fountain bought by
the City of Zurich
1991 "Platin de lune" presented in Munich, Germany for Meister Design
1994 Finalist in Gioia Lazzerini Award Roma in Pietrasanta.
1994 Exhibition Hotel Cesar, Ceasarea Israel. Under Patronage of Reuma Weizman, First Lady of Israel
1995 Exhibition at Wyvern Gallery Dublin, Ireland. Opened by Albert Reynold, ex Prime minister of Ireland
1998 Exhibition at Amalia Arbel Gallery, Tel Aviv and Rishon le Zion
1998 Peace sculpture erected in Zichron Yakov, Israel
2001 Exhibition at the House of Meister Design, Zürich, Switzerland
2002 Exhibition at the Diseart in Dingle, Ireland. Opened by Monsignor
Ò Fiannachta and Prof. Donncha Ò Corràin
2002 Exhibition at Noel Campbell-shar...