TRAMEMENTE Opere di Paola Ricci

Tramemente
Saturday, January 25th
MUSEONUOVAERA - Strada San Giorgio Martire 9 - Bari at 6:30 PM
Works by Paola Ricci
The exhibition of Paola Ricci's works opens on Saturday, January 25th at 6:30 PM at the MUSEONUOVAERA Gallery in Bari.
The exhibition "Tramemente" presents artist Paola Ricci for the first time in the new venue of MUSEONUOVAERA Gallery, a suitable space to showcase the artist's large canvases. The canvases are partly new and partly created specifically for the event.
The title of the exhibition evokes the concept of "Trame," which represent and embody the artist's mental process, always evolving. "Tramemente" is a word that encapsulates the fusion between "trame" (weaves) and "mente" (mind), like a liaison without separation. Paola Ricci's drawing is fulfilled in the continuous evolution of the gesture, unafraid to transition from small dimensions to large canvas extensions. The drawing is the foundation that then evolves into painting. The oil colors of large pastels and the use of unconventional tools are not the only means for her gesture; the artist uses her fingers directly in contact with the canvas treated with beeswax. The weave is also the sewing, which is the dedication of the gesture over time; the sign is drawn by the embroidery that outlines the trace on fabric of objects from the past.

Paola Ricci paints with fury and meticulousness, cultivating a technique that can be achieved spontaneously. Probably, the artist refers to what Blake defined as the line, which is a painting method; indeed, the only one. The artist brings the line from the two-dimensional dimension to the three-dimensional one with the steel wire that draws in the void, creating sculptures in space.©Tancredi Gull. 2025.
Paola Ricci was born in Venice in 1961 and graduated from I.S.I.A. in Urbino. She obtained a Master's in Art and Therapy at the Pontifical University Antonianum in Rome. She combines her activity as an artist with teaching Art Didactics. At the CCA Andratx Mallorca (Spain), she was invited for a residency, and her works were exhibited at the Kunstall Gallery in a show titled "Wall Sculptures." She was invited as a Visiting Artist at the Cummings Arts Center, Connecticut College, New London, CT, USA, where she completed a large drawing on paper titled "Multiverso," part of the institute's collection. She was selected in 2016 for a residency at the Vermont Studio Center and received an award for this period of artistic research in the USA. In April 2019, she was selected for the exhibition "The Comm-Inn" at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam.
In July 2020, she participated in the exhibition "ANTEPERIMA" at TOMAV in Torre Moresco. In 2020, curator Frank Eckhardt invited her to Dresden for a public event where she presented a video at the Nonmuseum for Contemporary Art at Dresden Neumarkt NICHT MUSEUM ZEITGEMÄßER KUNST. In 2022, she participated in the Collective Exhibition "Connessioni" at The Kitchen Gallery in Milan. In 2023, she created a work titled "Filo d’Arianna" for a group exhibition at the Museo di Emilio Greco, which was then transferred to the MADXI Museum in Latina.