Jara Marzulli - Occhio virtuoso

Precious opera and one of the few remaining, belonging to the period in which the artist’s pictorial rendering is most photographic and incisive, characteristics that since 2005 have defined the style and concepts, to the point of making them unique and recognizable in the artistic landscape.

The theme has often described a female world immersed in an almost ritual atmosphere, where symbols appear that intertwine with a gesturality that renders and deepens the theme of female bonds. The needle and the seam indeed refer to the work of women in earlier ages, but they are symbols inverted as if they were marks pressed on the skin, carved and imprinted in the very moment, to render them powerful and impactful to the viewer. The eyes and the naturalness of a body are always central, not perfect according to conventional aesthetic canons, not exposed to pleasure, but bearing witness, itself of the entire message, which communicates confidence and dignity, going beyond mere observation.

The work does not need a frame.

Jara Marzulli
Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Bari with top marks, her painting style immediately becomes recognizable especially for the unmistakable expression in the faces, for the symbolic elements and refined painting technique. Through selections she has gathered international experience regarding contemporary figuration.
Numerous are the competitions in which she is awarded and selected, prestigious international art exhibitions regarding contemporary figuration, in various parts of Italy and abroad.
Some of her works are present in pinacotheques, in museums such as those of Athens, Catania and the Vittoriale degli Italiani, in many publications and in private collections, always of international scope.

Some events of the last years of Jara Marzulli’s career:
Solo exhibitions:
year 2024
“Birdy”, curated by Marilena Morabito and Aurelia Nicolosi, Koart unconventional place gallery, Catania
year 2022
“The Garden Above the Sky”, curated by Patrizia Dinoi, Spazio Start Gallery, Giovinazzo (BA)
year 2019
“Melacarne”, curated by Mariateresa Zagone, Fadibè Gallery, Messina ME
year 2017
“Jara Marzulli”, solo exhibition, curated by Antonio Ladogana, C.d’A. Michelangiolo, Trani (BT)

Group Exhibitions, prizes, selections and residencies

year 2023
“The censored” nude and censorship in Italian art today, curated by Camillo Langone, Vittoriale in Gardone Riviera
“Dreams of childhood”, GalleriaX, Dublin.
Salerno Biennale

year 2022
“How Green Parrots”, collective art for Emergency, PALERMO | Palazzo Costantino Di Napoli
Finalist in the “ArtKeys” contest with subsequent exhibition at the “Next” ex tobacco factory, Carpaccio Paestum.
Finalist in the figurative art competition “ModPortrait” with exhibition at the Foundation "Caja Rural de Aragón" in Zaragoza and at the European Museum of Modern Art Meam in Barcelona.
“From chrysalis to rebel”, collective art curated by Paola Ruffino, Palazzo Nicolaci, Noto (SR).
“Infinitely mutable”, gallery “Ranarossa”, collective art, Modena.

year 2021
Finalist for “Seasons” Art Competition and participation in the exhibition related to King House Gallery, Stratford-Upon-Avon, United Kingdom.
Selected in the “long list” for The Self-Portrait Prize 2021 Exhibition - Ruth Borchard Collection

year 2020
“Conversations with Francesco Speranza”, Diocesan Museum "Mons. A. Marena", collective art curated by Francesco Paolo Del Re, within the CultOra project of the De Palo Ungaro Foundation with the History and Art Research Center.
“Private”, invited by St. Petersburg Art Academy in Florence, Palazzo di Cosimo Ridolfi, Florence
"Works in quarantine time", project of Viga virtual gallery, in which Jara Marzulli represents Italy, together with international artists from Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Greece, Iran and Ecuadorian artists.
Selected for catalog entry at Combat 2020 prize
Selected for the Don Sante Montanaro award- "From light to color. In search of a ray of beauty", Casamassima (BA)

year 2019
“Correspondences” curated by Alessandra Redaelli, Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia, Rome
“Ex-voto/ for received art” curated by Alessandra Redaelli and Angelo Crespi, GrandArt fine art fair, Milan
“Luna quadra” curated by Mariateresa Zagone, Spazio Clelia Fiore Broken, Messina (ME)
Selected for the monthly California catalog Aperò, ranked 3rd for the work “La raccolta dei Narcisi”
“The Forms of Art - 1st Edition 2019” Glasgow, UK

year 2018
"Mediterranean Codes" Arionte Contempora­neous Art of Catania in collaboration with KōArt: unconventional place, gallery where her works are on permanent display
“AEQUILIBRIUM: WATER, EARTH, AIR, FIRE” curated by Daniela Arionte at GAM of Catania.
Third Biennale of Contemporary Art and Design of Salerno.

year 2017
“Fate ignorant” curated by Michael Peddio, ReArt Gallery, Reggio Emilia.
1st prize “Gian Franco Lupo”- a smile to life, former San Rocco hospital, Matera(MT).
“Woman as a source of life”, Palazzo della Marra, Barletta (BAT)
“Borderline”, curated by Marilena Morabito, MAM, Museum of Arts and Trades of Cosenza.
“At Full Blast”, curated by Massimo Nardi, Palazzo Marchesale di Laterza (TA), Palazzo delle Delegazioni, Marina di Ginosa(TA).
“el Tempo, la Muerte, el Amor”, within the project "Enredadas 2017" born in Spain, Italian curators Katia Pangrazi, San Domenico Church, Narni (TR), with sponsorship of UNESCO National Commission.
1st prize with the work "La Messaggera" "Maschera di Pulcinella Premio Città di Acerra"(NA)
“Ugallery” 2017, Padiglione Nuovo Ente Fiera Foggia.

year 2015/16
“Somewhere in the world, Book project”, curated by Susanna Bianchini, Spazio Cerere, Rome,
and Baglioni Hotel in South Kensington, London.
“EXPO ARTE CONTEMPORANEA ITALIANA”, to a

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