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lessandra Porfidia, born in Rome, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in her city, in the School of Emilio Greco. You wrote your thesis on the work of Henry Moore, from which you acquired the vital force of form and the importance of the concept of emptiness.
You have been exhibiting since 1980 and since 2005 you have been working with the historic Galleria Edieuropa. Her debut was in the Carmine Siniscalco Gallery, the Studio S Arte Contemporanea with which she created her first personal exhibition in 1989, in the monumental complex of Montecchio Vesponi (AR), presented by the internationally renowned critic, Lorenza Trucchi. In 1996, with three important works from the Teatro del corpo cycle, she exhibited at the XII Quadriennale d’Arte Last Generations: following her participation, some of her works were acquired by the Macro Museum in Rome.
You constantly exhibit in Italy and abroad, especially in Egypt, Japan, the United States, Uzbekistan, France, Germany, Berlin, Munich, and Tel Aviv. The catalogs of his exhibitions boast presentations by internationally renowned critics and his works are present in numerous public spaces, such as the Palace of Justice of Asti and Frosinone, the Civil Motorization of Rome, the Prison of Viterbo, the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of Rome2, ASLRm1 of the Santa Maria della Pietà in Rome. In 1995 you were awarded the Fiumara-ARGAM Prize for Sculpture; in 1998 she was awarded the Suntory Prize at the Osaka Triennale, Japan, with museum acquisition of her work. In 2000 you won the Rome Metro International Art Prize, creating a mosaic for the Numidio Quadrato station. In 2016 you won the Bozzolo Prize with a diptych acquired from the collection of the Pinacoteca della Città. In 2022 the project of the steel sculpture On Vacuum – Space around the Void won the PAC Plan for Contemporary Art 2020 of the Ministry of Culture.
Her artistic research is increasingly focused on the theme of environmental sculpture in relation to nature and architecture, the habitat, issues of sustainability.
In addition to the personal artistic research activity, the teaching activity started since 1985 is very significant.
He taught, among other places, in the Academies of Fine Arts in: Milan, Florence, Carrara, Sassari, Macerata, before receiving in 2017 the chair of the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, where today he teaches for the three-year course and the course specialist in Sculpture, Public and Environmental Art, and where he also directs the School of Sculpture and has the delegation of the European research program Horizon Differences 2020.
In Brera she was the first Italian sculptor to hold the chair of Sculpture; while at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence she was also Erasmus and International Relations Manager, giving life to numerous international projects such as the Mediterranean Project, coordinating many educational projects with other artistic faculties, UPV in Spain in Bilbao and T.EI . in Greece in Athens and Tinos.
Still today strongly engaged in various international initiatives, she is active with numerous workshops, conferences and collaborations with artists and scholars of national and international universities.
Since 1998 she has been a member of the ISC, International Sculpture Center and for over ten years she has been in contact with various international organizations such as: the Sculpture Network organization, NMWA.org (National Museum of Women in the Arts Foundation), Society for Artistic Research.
Some of her writings have been published in scientific collections of art, aesthetics, psychoanalysis and at conferences.
Her work “Forma Lirica” was the subject of study in a degree thesis at the University of Rome 2, Faculty of Philosophy.