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aMBRA mOROSI’s biography
aMBRA mOROSI was born in Florence, Italy, in 1951. Her early paintings were stylistically classical. In the early 1980’s she painted in a hyper-realistic manner. Since 1984 her work assumes an original quality, difficult to classify according to known artistic styles. Using a particular sfumato technique, aMBRA mOROSI endeavours to transform the subject matter into an absolute form. In this endeavour, the physical features of that which is depicted are unavoidably rendered in an indistinct way. In other words, she attempts to depict an invisible, absolute reality, rather than a physical, relative one. Morosi’s “absolute forms” can be identified with the representation of the id, that is of the inherited instinctive impulses of the individual.
In 1994 she founded an avant-garde artistic movement, called Estensionism (Es=id), based on these principles.
aMBRA mOROSI’s medium is generally mixed: either oil-paint or acrylic-paint and pastel, on canvas or wood. Her formats tend to be relatively large (for example, 120x120 cm).
aMBRA mOROSI’s first painting exhibition dates back to 1984. Since then she has held many one-man exhibitions and has participated in numerous group shows, both in Italy and abroad.
In 1994 she presented the first Estensionist group exhibition. Morosi has recently exhibited in New York (Caelum Gallery and C.V.B. Space), Cortina d’Ampezzo (Museo delle Regole), Rome (S. Carlo al Corso), Florence (Accademia delle Arti e del Disegno and Museo degli Innocenti), Barcelona (Art Expo), London (The Empire Gallery).
Morosi’s work is included in many private and public collections in Italy, U.S.A., Japan, Poland (Cracovian Museum of Modern Art). In 1990 the prestigious Accademia dei Dioscuri awarded Morosi a prize for her original work.
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