Stella Battaglia

STATEMENT

My works reflect on the relationship between vision and object, between the two dimensions of the image and the three dimensions of sculpture, which has led to the creation of works in a wide range of materials, traditional and otherwise, including video installations. The image is the starting point for a rhythmic and dynamic development of the form, whereas movement is the fundamental element, which resonates with that of the observer.

CURRICULUM VITAE

After working in dance and theatre, Battaglia turned to the figurative arts and, in collaboration with Gianni Miglietta, focused on the theme of perspective and anamorphosis accompanied by an in-depth study of optical distortion in sculpture.

EXHIBITIONS

2017- Moving Signs. Raw Space. Vero Beach. FL. USA
2017- Boston International Fine Art Show. BIFAS 2017
2017- Art Fair Malaga, Spain, June 2017.
 2016- Boa Gallery. Paris. France
2015- Les Jours de Lumières Festival. Saint-Saturnin. France
2015- Boa Gallery. Paris. France
2014- Present Art Festival of Shanghai. Pudong Library. Shanghai. China
2014- Punti di vista. (Point of View). Sculpture and Painting. Milan Art & Event Center. Italy
2013- Wilson Art Museum. Shanghai. China
2013- Vienna Showcase. Austria
2013- Florence-Shanghai Prize 2013
2013- Conversation Scenes. Sensus, contemporary art sites. Florence. Italy
2013- Visual. Photography through Contemporary Languages. SUC Space. Alinari National Museum of Photography. Florence. Italy
2013- Stella Battaglia. The Appearance of the Form. Il Cassero for Italian Sculpture. Montevarchi. Italy
2012- Geometries of Illusion-Art meets Science. Galileo Museum. Florence. Italy
2010- Arte Fiera di Bologna, M. Cirulli Gallery.  Hypothesis for a contemporary portrait. M. Nobile Gallery. Bologna. Italy
2009- Italian language meets art, science and technology: presentation of Galileo.  Sculpture with video projection at IX Week of Italian Language in the world. Rome. Italy
2008- Festival of Creativity. Fortezza da Basso. Florence. Italy
2008- Science Festival, Palazzo Ducale. Genoa. Italy
2007- Rocca Paolina, Perugia Science Festival, Institute and Museum of History of Science  
2003- Again. Villa Strozzi. Florence. Italy
1996- Chapelle des Pénitents Blancs.  Saint Paul de Vence. France
1994- International Biennale of Ceramic. Vallauris. France
1993- Forbes Collection. Museum of Arts and Design of New York. U.S.
1993- International Ceramics competition. Faenza. Italy
1992- Provincia Regionale, Ragusa. Italy
1992- Vissi d’Arte Gallery. New York. U.S.
1992- New Spirits Gallery. Memphis. U.S.

MUSEUMS INTERVENTIONS AND ART INSTALLATIONS

2014- Perspective Gallery. Paleontological Museum. Montevarchi. Italy
2011- Vinum Nostrum, Pitti Palace. Florence. Italy
2010- Florence Science. Collections, sites e personalities of the 19th century. Institute and Museum of History of Science. Natural History Museum. Florence. Italy
2009-2010- Art and illusion, masterpieces of Trompe-l’oeil from antiquity to the present day, Palazzo Strozzi. Florence. Italy
2009- Galileo. Images of the Universe from Antiquity to the Telescope. Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
2006-2007- The Mind of Leonardo. In the Studio of the Universal Genius. Uffizi Gallery. Florence.
2006- Mate-trentino. Museum Tridentino of Natural Sciences. Trento. Italy
2003-2004- Mate-Milano, National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci. Milano. Italy.
2002- Anamorphosis in the foyer. Sinalunga Theater. Sinalunga. Italy.
2002- Armilla, anamorphic installation at Institute and Museum of History of Science. Florence. Italy
2002- Magnificent Perspective Devices, Museo di Palazzo Vecchio for the Ragazzi Museum and in collaboration with the Institute and Science Museum of Florence. Italy
2001-2002- In the Sign of Masaccio. The Invention of Perspective. Uffizi Gallery. Florence. Anamorphic installations in the courtyard of the Uffizi and in the exhibition.
2000- Fabric Europa. Florence. Italy
2000- Anamorphic installation. Roman Theatre. Bene Vagenna. Italy
2000- Anamorphic installation. Chiesa della Missione decorated by Andrea Pozzo. Mondovì. Italy

CONFERENCES AND SCIENTIFIC CONSULTATION

2016- Conference "Perspective study for the Bas-relief on the Pulpit of Donatello in the church of San Lorenzo". Florence. Italy
2016- Conference “Perspective study for the Crucifixion of Donatello”. Bargello Museum. Florence. Italy
2014- Consultation “The perspettive of the bas-relief Crucifixion of Donatello.” Museo del Bargello.       Florence. Italy
2014- Shaping with Light. Museo First. Firenze Scienza and Technic. Museum Galileo. Florence. Italy
2014- Consultation “The Opificio delle Pietre Dure on the perspective of the bas-reliefs on the Pulpit of Donatello”. San Lorenzo Church. Florence. Italy
2013- Conference “Visual. Photography and its Contemporary Languages”. Florence. SUC Space. Alinari National Museum of Photography
2008- International study conference Geometry -Teaching and Research, organized by the Florence Faculty of Architecture, Florence. Italy

EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOP

2016- Perspective and optical proportion, the sculptor’ eye. Lesson for the students of the School of High Formation of Opificio delle Pietre Dure. Florence. 2014- From perspective to cinematography effects. Galileo ANSAS Museum. Florence. Italy
2012- Disegnar come si vede (Designing as you see). Galileo ANSAS Museum. Florence. Italy
2011- Seminar with students enrolled in the descriptive geometry course of the Florence Faculty of Architecture, 2008.
2010- Seminar with students enrolled in the descriptive geometry course of the Florence Faculty of Architecture.
2009- Seminar with students enrolled in the descriptive geometry course of the Florence Faculty of Architecture.
2008- Seminar with students enrolled in the descriptive geometry course of the Florence Faculty of Architecture.
2004-2005- Art and Science, the Science of Drawing, Institute and Museum of History of Science. Florence. Italy 
2003- Museo dei Ragazzi, Palazzo Vecchio. Florence 2002. Italy
2003- Museo dei Ragazzi, Palazzo Vecchio. Florence. Italy