Barbara Nicoletto - HALONG HARBOUR

- Directly from the studio of artist Barbara Nicoletto.
Title: Halong Harbour belongs to the Essential Line, a series focused on formal reduction and the balance between sign, space, and matter. The work unfolds through an essential composition, where the landscape dissolves into a few structural elements, letting a suspended and timeless vision emerge.
Oil painting on paper mounted on a canvas-stretched frame, 70 × 70 cm.
The work depicts an evocative and suspended port vision, inspired by the famous Ha Long port. The composition blends industrial and maritime elements: a cargo ship loaded with colorful containers moves through the painted space beneath a large suspended structure, suggesting movement, travel, and global transit.
The surface is highly tactile, reminiscent of oxides and traces of rust, which confer depth and authenticity to the work, visually recalling the theme of the wreck and industrial memory. The color palette, dominated by warm, sandy tones, is enlivened by turquoise accents and the ship’s vivid colors, creating a dynamic balance between abstraction and figuration.
Unique work with a strong visual impact, ideal for collectors of contemporary painting and for modern or industrial spaces.
Original piece, ready to hang.-

Dimensions: 70 cm × 70 cm × 2 cm. Thickness.

'Barbara Nicoletto' - Italian artist.
January 1968 - Padova
Active between Reggio Emilia and Padova.

Always passionate about art and drawing, she continued her studies at the 'Pietro Selvatico' Art Institute in Padua, specializing in painting. She experimented with various representative techniques such as watercolor, tempera, acrylic, ink, oil, and printmaking techniques, guided by masters deeply knowledgeable of the oldest techniques, which they reinterpret with new and contemporary formulas. This approach makes her an artist who is always innovative and experimental.
The pursuit of new stimuli and evolutionary balances leads her to actively collaborate in the sports world, integrating various disciplines for physical and psychological well-being. When combined with the visual arts, these collaborations support and guide her towards teaching artistic disciplines and pursuing new professional goals.
Her art can only evolve and change with her shifting mood and curious personality!
It will hardly present itself as a single recognizable artistic face within a linear production line, but will emerge and surprise with its eclectic mutability.

1989/2011 - He continues his work in the furniture sector as a designer for several major companies in Veneto and Emilia-Romagna.
From 2017 to date - Independent artist; atelierist, painting and related subjects student at Reart Reggio Emilia.
He continues with experimentation, also thanks to his great passion for other cultures abroad, deepening his knowledge of both analog and digital photography, which in turn inspires his works.
Curiosity about the different forms of artistic expression brings her closer to the world of ceramics, Raku, the most loved.
The technique will be learned and deepened in the great workshop of master Nico Toniolo of Marostica.
Participated in several art competitions with works that received recognition from the juries, such as first prize at Raku Padova Arts in 2001. This involved a deepening of the illusionistic technique of marble and stone, such as travertine and Carrara marble.
Currently, his most used technique is oil that is constantly evolving thanks to the blending of material bases mixed with ultramarine blue, metallic oxides, pumice, and whatever the moment or the occasion brings to that particular moment.
Deep animal gazes, distant peoples, moons, and fantastic landscapes!
Work and evolve an innovative, original, and abstract artistic style called Sealing. Unique in its kind.
Participates in various exhibition events with subjects and themes that are always different, making the works appear as if created by different hands. This is all thanks to his imaginative and eclectic transformative ability.
Her fertile mind allows her to approach art with a new, deeper, and more subjective perspective, stripping it of the paradigms with which it is labeled and returning it to its true nature — that of speaking the language of feelings and the deepest instincts of humanity, passing through words. After three years of study, she achieved the title of Art Therapist recognized by UNI PRO.

Most significant exhibitions for painting works

2009/2011 - MoMArt, the showcase of art. Artists in the square. Collective exhibition in Padova.
2014 - Talking About Art, a collective in Camogli at Art Gallery.
2014 - Personal exhibition at Comunita’ Monte di Portofino
2014 - Madonna dei Gotti collective curated by the Municipality of Camogli - Liguria
2015 - The seas and the world contain staff at the municipality of Campegine.
2016 - The Museum in the Showcase two-person exhibition at CA’ DEI CARRARESI Museum in Treviso
2017 - The Ignorant Fairies tri-personal project with Iara Marzulli and Tina Sgrò at Galleria REART in R. Emilia.
2017 - Galleria REART Christmas Collective Exhibition
2018 - Reggia di Rivalta, Collective exhibition at Palazzo Ducale. Rivalta
2018 - Collective exhibition at Villa Castello La Tenuta di Caccia in Regnano
2018 - Arte Fiera di Padova exhibits for Galleria REART.
2019 - TRE LUNE three-person exhibition with Alessandra Binini and Barbara Giavelli at Galleria REART
2019 - 500 Leonardo Forever – Leonardo's 500th anniversary at Tecnopolo – Reggio Emilia
2019 - Art Parma Fair 2019 – Arte Fiera Parma exhibited at the REART gallery.
2020 - RADIUM ARTIS – Marina di Pietrasanta - Tripersonal San Martino in Rio - Reggio Emilia -
2021 - No Time / No Space Solo Exhibition at RADIUM ARTIS
2022 - MA EC – Milan - First prize for the work ‘Alone’ at the Art Competition - AMBIENTARTI III organized by ARTSPACE
2022 - Personal study path in ARTTHERAPY, three-year program at Centro Sarvas, Reggio Emilia.
2022 - Training workshop on the illusory marble painting technique - Rome
2024 - Exhibition, tripersonal in Modena at Artekyp with the new line 'Sealing'.


Humanities experiences

2011/2017 - Personal Trainer – recognized post-training training methods used: SLOWFIT (Pilates, medical-relax, stretching), functional, crossactive, and postural, as well as muscle strengthening workouts.
Virgin Active. Reggio Emilia.

2024 - Intern at: ‘AIMA’ Reggio Emilia; Matilde di Canossa Primary School Reggio Emilia.
2025 - Professional Art Therapist UNI.PRO. Three-year program at Centro Sarvas, Reggio Emilia.

2017/2025 - Teacher of Painting and related arts in group and individual settings with participants of all ages. Reart, Reggio Emilia.

2025 - Teacher of Creative Painting at Centro Sarvas, Reggio Emilia.




Main artistic events

2009/2011 - MoMArt, the showcase of art: Artists in the square, Collective Exhibition in Padua.
2014 - Talking About Art, a collective exhibition in Camogli at Art Gallery.
2014 - Personal exhibition at Comunita’ Monte di Portofino.
2014 - Madonna dei Gotti group exhibition curated by the Municipality of Camogli - Liguria
2015 - The months and the world contains staff at the municipality of Campegine.
2016 - The Museum in the Showcase two-person exhibition at CA’ DEI CARRARESI Museum in Treviso
2017 - THE IGNORANT FAIRIES, tri-personal, with Iara Marzulli and Tina Sgrò at Galleria REART in R. Emilia.
2017 - Galleria REART Christmas Collective Exhibition
2018 - Reggia di Rivalta, Collective exhibition at Palazzo Ducale. Rivalta
2018 - Collective exhibition at Villa Castello La Tenuta di Caccia in Regnano
2018 - Arte Fiera di Padova exhibits for Galleria REART
2019 - Trio exhibition with Alessandra Binini and Barbara Giavelli at Galleria REART
2019 - 500 Leonardo Forever – Fiftieth anniversary on Leonardo at Tecnopolo – Reggio Emilia
2019 - Art Parma Fair 2019 – Arte Fiera Parma exhibited at REART gallery.
2020 - RADIUM ARTIS – Marina di Pietrasanta - Tripersonale San Martino in Rio - Reggio Emilia -
2021 - NO TIME / NO SPACE Solo Exhibition at RADIUM ARTIS
2022 - MA EC – Milan - 1st prize for the work 'Alone' in the Art Competition - AMBIENTARTI III organized by ARTSPACE
2022 - Training workshop for the illusionistic painting technique of marble – Rome
2024 - EXIT - Artekyp Modena - Sealing Line.



Personal interests and hobbies

Reading of various kinds, often with psychological undertones, adventurous and cultural.
Photography
Cinema and museum visits.
Travel abroad with naturalistic and ethnological destinations.
Discipline and culture, primarily of an Eastern general nature.
Passionate about cooking that includes wine and food destinations.
But I love animals; generally, a cat is always a roommate.
Wandering through the streets without a destination.
Use the bicycle whenever possible.
Run or walk outdoors.
Individual sport
Gardening and care of plants of every possible species to cultivate.

His logo and signature: The Dragon