Alisa Festa

I was born in the previous century in a country that does not longer exist by almost 30 years. Everything in my family had somehow to do with art: my grandmother was a passionate collector, my grandfather was an eclectic and he was easily able to complete an academic painting in one evening, and make a wooden sculpture the morning after. In fact, we never missed an art exhibition in the neighbourhood. So it was quite natural for me to have a sketchbook and some pencils of my own. From my very first childhood memories I remember myself draw something either out of boredom or to reproduce something. As soon as I was old enough, my parents signed me up to an art school.
Notwithstanding my natural interest and predisposition towards art, I ended up with a Bachelor degree in Linguistics and started travelling a lot.
I moved to Rome without a specific reason and there I studied philosophy in a catholic university (LUMSA). I still kept painting, for no reason, out of boredom, loneliness, or just because I was surrounded by too much beauty. I guess it was then, that a Babel Tower story-like repeated itself and a new form of things appeared to my mind: “…, observing their city…, confounds their speech so that they can no longer unders...

2011 - 2014 San Giacomo Art Scool, Restoring and Conservation (Rome, Italy)
2011 Bachelor of Art, Philosophy, LUMSA (Rome, Italy)
2010 San Giacomo Art School, Drawing (Rome, Italy)
1998 Bachelor of Art, Linguistics and German languages