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Donatella Guarino
artist
Donatella Guarino
Donatella Guarino
Donatella Guarino
Sculptress, teacher and activist, an irregular and anti-authorial artist, she views art as a powerful mean of transformation and as a political statement.
Born in Naples, she grew up in a small town in the suburb and she completed her studies at Fine Arts Academy of Naples with an experimental thesis in Art pedagogy and didactics on creativity as a transformative attitude and about art as a mean of a radical pedagogy.
During an art therapy lab experience with psychiatric patients, she met the Sarajevo Supermarket project, which supports marginal artists and promotes creativity in disadvantaged areas. In 2011 she co-founded the homonymous association and co-ran an artist-run space in Naples until 2014, with which she organized dozens of events among groups and solo exhibitions, concerts, readings, literary presentations and public debates.
Since 2015 she has been working as an art teacher in public school. Working in deprived outskirts was a case that she keenly welcomed, as it aligns with her choices and ideas.
Her work explores the themes of the organic and the artificial, distance and proximity, control and communication, and the gap between an alluring appearance and a menacing reality.
As an artist, she's gone off the radar: after using a pseudonym for several years, since 2016 she appeared almost exclusively in collective works.
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