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Simona Ciari has an academic background, graduating in Architecture in Florence in 1990. Since 2006 she has taken part in art exhibitions with her works.

• ARTtime, Lignano Sabbiadoro, 2006
• Triennale di Architettura, Florence, 2006
• Bronze Medal, Florence Prize, 2006
• Reggio Emilia Fair, 2006
• Solo exhibition, Studio Archimoderni, Bari, 2007
• Solo exhibition, Terme Tamerici, Montecatini Terme, 2007
• Solo exhibition, Teatro della Pergola, Florence (at the invitation of the Consulate of Peru)
• Woman - Matter - Creativity, Palazzo Coveri, Florence, 2008
• Proiezioni Arte III Millennio, Trento, 2008
• Silver Florin, Florence Prize, 2008
• Italian State Of Art, London, 2008
• Arte in Fiera, Longarone (BL), 2009
• Architect Artist Award, P.A.A.L.M.A. Award, La Spezia, 2009

About Simona Ciari:

"Inspired by nature without indulging in naturalistic attitudes is what Simona Ciari's pictorial research is all about. Rather than forms, she explores the magical energy of the elements in that boundless territory, and her themes are the sky, the sea, the sun, the sand, air, water, fire and earth. There is in fact something alchemic even in the factuality of the works in which the artist experiments with the dialogue between different materials, combining pictorial colour with plastic ingredients that allow her to intervene on the surface and create thicknesses and drips, incised grooves and granular streaks. With a further expressive impulse, transparent glass, coloured stones and copper wires also interact, almost as if to scan the mobile and unpredictable encroachment between the elements. Each of his scores seems to aim to make opposites participate in a single harmonious design, and as a natural reflection, the structure of the work often features multiple compositions of several parts, destined to communicate their combination of form and colour in space. And light and space, free from the rules of scientific physics, appear to be the guiding numbers that accompany this fascinating journey, rich in figurative and abstract suggestions. Light and space not reinvented for a fantastic representation, but nourishing a new balance between tactile and visual perception, capable of giving the image the vibration of an event in progress".

Roberta Fiorini

"Immeasurable vastnesses open up before Simona Ciari: the artist is totally immersed in them, using a phenomenal mix of acrylic materials discovered in the sphere of avant-garde building technology, employed to obtain plastic jumps over uncontaminated and sonorous sidereal depths. Now to structure tight rhythms in polymateric compositions of extraordinary spatial suggestion. Simona Ciari proposes perspectives which, while nourished by the clearest informal verve, are part of a rigorous spiritual research, materialising her chromatic passions, like crescendoing musical chords, to express existential doubts and sentimental thunderbolts, between contrasts of pure tones and comparisons between smoothness and roughness. In Occhi delle Memoria (Eyes of Memory ) the past and the future materialise and merge in the immaculate vortex of a comet harbinger of vital energy: archaic micro-organic presences animate its interior like a mother's womb bent on procreation, and abstraction becomes the root of the organic perfection of a world yet to be built. And creation breaks down into the Primordial Elements (air-water-earth-fire) still permeated by the initial breath but already structured in geometric shapes and rhythmic or melodic movements, to then triumph in the marvellous and complex phenomena of nature to which Flower of Happiness seems to allude, where light and matter deflagrate according to radial directions as in a Big Bang with incalculable consequences. Mondriaan claimed: it is precisely out of love for nature and reality that we avoid its natural appearance. Simona Ciari seeks a different kind of plastic expression, to reach the natural essence of life, and she succeeds in doing so by virtue of an expressive authenticity that makes her discover the most uncontaminated places of being, which then coincide with those of universal spirituality".

Alvaro Spagnesi