Milena Nicosia

For Milena Nicosia, art is breath, narrative, eternity.
Born in Sicily, she has been painting since she was 4 years old and has never lost the enthusiasm for it.
Her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence were rich in stimuli: Alchemy, Aesthetics, Philosophy, Symbology, and Art History left her with an endless desire for experimentation.
Her production has evolved hand in hand with her lived experience. There was a period dominated by the warmth of "beds," the passion of her twenties mixed with melancholy, longing, and "absences." Her voids contained presences, smells, and suggestions.
Since 2005, warmth and emotions in her works have been replaced by coldness and austerity, marked by traces of "clothes stripped off the body," essences in prints that preserve a form no longer there.
The color was that of an archaeological or black-and-white photographic relic.
Her perception of things is intimate and sacred; the material and immaterial imprints life leaves behind are her great source of inspiration. Her works, feminine and mysterious, hold stories and life accounts even when they appear abstract or metaphysical. Her color is not realistic but emotional.
Her painting style involves removing, carving, or corroding the surfac...

1992-93 High School Diploma in Applied Arts as an Architectural and Interior Designer obtained at the Art Institute of Comiso.
1997–02 Diploma in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence with 110 cum laude out of 110. Thesis presented: “Piero Guccione, Beauty as a Meduseo shield”.
At the School of Painting of Prof. Adriano Bimbi the first and second academic year, at the School of Painting of Prof. Riccardo Guarneri the third and fourth year, when she attended the engraving laboratory of Prof. Rodolfo Ceccotti.
2018 Master in Teaching, Psychological, Anthropological Methodologies, Theory and Methods of Design at the University “Dante Alighieri” of Reggio Calabria.

2010
• Exhibition “Contra, the triumph of the Image” Church of the Holy Souls, Enna. Publication in the catalog edited by Giuseppe Di Bella published by Con-Fine editions
• Review in the Con-Fine magazine for the inclusion of the aartist in the private collection of the publishing house.
2009
• Exhibits at the Fiera di Padova
• Personal painting exhibition Palazzo Mormino di Donnalucata (Scicli)
2008
• Exhibition entitled “STOP!” at the “Museo della Polizia” in Rome. His painting to raise public awareness on the issue of road safety.
• Group exhibition “Different looks” in Warsaw at the Pracownia Galeria.
• Review in the magazine "con-fine" December 08 "Footprints of light, stratigraphy of the soul" text by Giuseppe Di Bella
2007
• Review The relict orma delle cose by Francesco Giulio Farachi Published in JULIET, art magazine N° 135 December ’07 – January ’08
• Semifinalist of the Premio Celeste ’07 competition for painting, published in the catalog by the Cultural Association L’Albero Celeste of San Gimignano, Siena.
• Personal exhibition at the Trump Plaza Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey on the occasion of the “1st Convention of the CSNA”, Sicilian Confederation of North America
• Group exhibition THE NIGHT of the WH...