Tina Morello

My artistic practice develops through a visual language that combines abstract painting and collage, creating layered surfaces where color, imagery, and fragments of visual culture coexist in a dynamic balance between gesture and materiality.
The works emerge through a process of accumulation and transformation: newspaper clippings, media imagery, and text are incorporated into the canvas and later covered, altered, or partially revealed through expressive painterly interventions. This process creates a fragmented visual narrative that reflects the complexity of contemporary society.
Through the use of collage, my work also introduces a strong dimension of social critique. Images taken from media, politics, and popular culture become elements to deconstruct and reinterpret, questioning the systems of power, consumption, and communication that shape our time.
From a technical perspective, my research engages with the tradition of décollage and urban layering, recalling the experimentation of artists such as Mimmo Rotella, who transformed advertising posters and mass-media imagery into artistic material, and the contemporary practices of Mark Bradford, known for his large-scale compositions built through the stratification of urban a...

Academy of Fine Arts- Palermo

Collective exhibition ”Geometrias de amor”
Galleria Nauart, Barcelona, Spain, 2025

Solo Exhibition “Pareidolia”
9 Olas Gallery, Barcelona, Spain, 2018

Solo exhibition: "Emptiness"
The collective gallery, Barcelona, Spain, 2016

Collective Art Exhibition “Up art”
Castello di Marineo, Palermo, Italy, 2015

Collective Art Exhibition “TOP”
Espai Nauart, Barcelona, Spain, 2014

Collective Art Exhibiton “Barcelona Abstracio II”
Galerie Cadavere Exquisit, Barcelona, Spain, 2014

Collective Art Exhibiton ” Barcelona Abstracio”
Galerie Le Marais, Paris, France, 2014

Collective Art Exhibition “Colores Calidos”
Espai Nauart, Barcelona, Spain, 2014

Collective Art Exhibition “ Affinita’ Elettive”
Palazzo Duchi di Santo Stefano, Taormina, Italy, 2013

Collective Art Exhibition “ La notte bianca”
Villa Forni, Palermo, Italy, 2012

Collective Art Exhibition “Le Donne nell’arte”
Castel Bauso, Messina, Italy,2012

Collective Art Exhibition “ Summertime”
Villafranca Tirrena, Messina, Italy, 2012

Collective Art Exhibition “Quello che non vedi”
Risposto, Italy, 2012

Residence:

Nauart, Barcelona, from 01/05/2014 to 30/09/2014