Mara Montanari

Mara lives and works in Italy in the province of Modena. She began to paint with determination from 1980 to 1995, continuing to study piano; doing some exhibits, personal and collective. She then resumed continuously from 2008. Her natural eclectic spirit led her to express herself as spans a range of media including: installations of leaves-painted sculptures; words on silk panels; ceramic pots; pillow-talking objects; large oil paintings. Her colors are bright, bold, colorful and sunny; her style ranges from expressionism-abstract to figurative-revisited, maintaining a constant freedom of expression over time. She has exhibited in Italy and since 2018 has some collectors in the U.S.

Extended history

Over the years, I still continue to research and experiment with the same spirit of the beginnings, and now also with a deeper psychic awareness, about creativity: 'Keeping the creative current clear' (C.P.Estés).

The subject matter of my work is often poetry and literature, that inspire me to represent, in different ways, some poetic compositions; but also songs, words, quotations, everything which captures me in one casual moment.
My themes are: love, nature, feelings, sensations, thoughts.

It leads me to a certain libertar...

My passion for art had already emerged in adolescence, at the age of 15 I have started with a mixture of different experiences, in private schools, studying piano, art history, live drawing, oil paint, conferences cycles in modern art, helding by art critics.
Also I traveled to find out the Etruscan and Roman archaelogical sites in Italy, as well as the most important art museums in Italy, and in Europe, in Paris, London and Amsterdam.

Exhibition in Castello di Belgioioso Pavia Italy, November 23,24_ 2024

22-23 Open Studio

2021-'14 Open Studio

2014-2018 la vigna atelier Fossoli di Carpi, Modena, permanent exhibit of recent works

2013 Saatchi Gallery, London, painting in loop "From Volcano to Butterfly" photo of real lotus leaf painted

2012 Open Studio, Carpi,Modena, Italy
la vigna atelier Fossoli di Carpi, recent works

2010 Commission by factory Icam-Inox Soliera, Modena
2008 opening Studio Carpi, Modena Italy
la vigna atelier, Fossoli di Carpi, Modena

2002 Commission by Carpi Ramazzini Hospital

1998 personal exhibit in Bank Pop. Carpi sede
1997 Exposition "Artisti a Milioni", Sala Ganci, organised by the Municipality of Carpi
1996-1998 various exhibitions with the group Edonè in Mantova and Carpi
1995 taken part at - 1st Prize Trevi Flash Art Museum

1992 personal exhibit at Galleria Teorema, via del Corso, Firenze
1989 I've won the 1st prize at the 12th Biennale d'arte Fiorano, Modena

My works are in private collections in New York, Manhattan, Bedford, in Massachussets, in France, Italy Firenze, Correggio, Carpi, and in public collections in Municipality of Fiorano-Modena, in Carpi Ramazzini Hospital, in f...