Marcella Tisi

Painter, Sculptor, Architect
Born in 1962 in Genoa and a descendant of the 16th-century Ferrara school painter Benvenuto Tisi, known as il Garofalo, she currently resides and works in Turin. In the early 1980s, she embarked on her artistic journey in painting, favoring landscape and nude subjects. She graduated in Architecture and began practicing as a freelance architect while simultaneously engaging in teaching assistance and research at the Faculty of Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Turin. Subsequently, she obtained a degree in Sculpture from the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin, further enriching her artistic path as a painter and architect by embracing sculpture. Today, her work encompasses public and private open-space interventions, urban and territorial requalification projects, and interior renovations, with a primary focus on the relationship between art, nature, and architecture. She continues to pursue teaching, research, and experimentation activities and exhibits her work in prestigious venues in Italy and abroad.

In 1987, she graduated in Architecture from the Politecnico di Torino while concurrently refining her artistic studies under the guidance of Giacomo Soffiantino.
Her artistic path began in painting in the early 1980s. In 1988, she obtained her professional qualification to practice as an architect.
In 1996, she attended the engraving school at the International Center of Graphics in Venice and she worked in the studio of Luigi Mainolfi in Turin.
In 2000, she received certification to teach art disciplines at the lower secondary level and art disciplines and art history at the upper secondary level (artistic and scientific high schools and art institutes).
From 1998 to 2006, she occasionally attended Pino Mantovani’s studio.
In 2004, she graduated in Sculpture, under the tutelage of Riccardo Cordero, at the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin, completing her artistic and academic training.

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**PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES**

2023 - *Contaminations. Notes of Art at the Mandina*, works and installations, Cappella Mandina, via Unità d’Italia, 34, Gerbido, Grugliasco (TO).
2022 - *Mandala of Pumpkins. Art and Madness*, installation and performance, Park of Palazzo Piozzo di Rosignano, Rivoli (TO).
2021 - *Clay Cliffs. Welcome*, Botanical Garden, Turin.
2019 - *The Works and the Place*, exhibition of works and installations, Spazio Mutabilis, Turin.
2018 - *The Absolute Garden*, installation and performance, Palazzo Aimonetti, Turin.
*The Leaf Canvas*, installation, Circolo dei Lettori, Palazzo Graneri della Roccia, Turin.
2008 - *The Rooms*, exhibition of works and artistic performance, Palazzina Marfisa d’Este, Ferrara.
2007 - *ILBLUINTERRA. PER(e)SISTERE, exhibition of paintings and photographs, Fort of Exilles (TO).
2007 - *Expansions. Sign and Color Inhabit Space*, exhibition of works and installation, Studio Lapis, Turin.
2004 - *ILBLUINTERRA*, exhibition of paintings and photographs, Circolo Culturale La Scaletta, Sassi, Matera.
1996 - *The Body and Movement*, exhibition of paintings and dance...