Angela Cavalieri

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Angela Cavalieri (born 1962) is an Australian printmaker, whose work recreates text and narratives in visual form and was included in the Venice Biennale, 2011.

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Early life and education

Cavalieri's parents migrated from Calabria, Italy, to Australia in the post-war period. She studied printmaking at the Victorian College of the Arts from 1981 to 1983. [1]

Career

Cavalieri exhibited in solo and group exhibitions from 1984,[ citation needed ] and in 2011 was included in The Venice Biennale, Italian Pavillion In The World Project, 2011. [2] She also won the Manly Library Artist Book Award in 2011. [2]

She has been awarded several prizes and has undertaken a number of artist residencies in Europe and Australia. Her work is held in public and private collections throughout Australia, notably Australian National Gallery, [3] The National Gallery of Victoria, [4] State Library of Queensland, Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne and State Library of Victoria. She is also represented in the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland. [3]

Art practice

Text, language and the transformative nature of culture are recurring themes in Cavalieri's art practice, referencing in particular her Italian heritage. [5] Her work has been described as "visually seductive, monumental in their proportions and immediate in their impact" by the art historian Sasha Grishin. [6]

She surveys the art of writing and storytelling in a visual form in a series of monumental, hand-rolled linocuts on canvas as well as producing small-scale artist's books. [7]

Passages from Dante, Petrarch, Italo Calvino and the influences of Italian artists such as Piero della Francesca, Giotto and Piranesi are referenced in her work. [8] The music of the Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) also provided Cavalieri with inspiration, as a result of an Arts Centre Melbourne commission to produce a work about an opera in 2011, the State Library of Victoria's Creative Fellowship (2012-2013) [9] and a residency at La Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Residency in Venice (2015), exploring the city where Monteverdi lived in the last decades of his life. [10] [11]

Awards and residencies

Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions

References

  1. ↑ "Angela Cavalieri – Selected". 28 December 2016. Archived from the original on 28 December 2016. Retrieved 10 March 2024.
  2. 1 2 3 "Cavalieri, Angela (1962-)". Trove People. Retrieved 10 March 2024.
  3. 1 2 "Angela Cavalieri - Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venezia" . Retrieved 15 September 2024.
  4. ↑ "If he kill or I kill".
  5. ↑ "Canzone: Music as storytelling". The Guardian. 7 October 2015. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 15 September 2024.
  6. ↑ Grishin, Sasha (2011). "Profiles in Print: Angela Cavalieri". Craft Arts International. 82: 74–78.
  7. ↑ Women's Art Register [Artists File]: Cavalieri, Angela. Women's Art Register. 2008.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  8. ↑ "World of the Book: a curator tour". University of Melbourne. 11 November 2022.
  9. ↑ "Angela Cavalieri". State Library Victoria. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
  10. ↑ Kayser, Petra (2015). Canzone - Music as Storytelling. Melbourne, Victoria: fortyfivedownstairs. pp. 4–5. ISBN   978-0-646-94478-4.
  11. ↑ Garden, Wendy (2016). "Angela Cavalieri: Narrative tones". Art Monthly Australia. 292: 30–33.
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