LAURA MUOLO - il trip

Oil portrait on canvas with the addition of pieces worked with DAS.

Laura Muolo, born in 1975, a Milanese by birth and a Rimini resident by choice. She approaches art as a self-taught artist since 2013. Her starting medium is graphite, with which she immediately seeks the realism of faces, later branching out to other mediums such as pastel and painting.

She participates in numerous group exhibitions across Italy and internationally. Her works are part of several private collections in the United States, Australia, Japan, France, Germany, Belgium, Ireland, and Italy. She has held three solo exhibitions: in the hall of the Municipal Theatre in Montescudo (RN) in August, at the Galleria Arte e Vacanze in Punta Marina di Ravenna (RA) in September 2019, and in the hall of the Priori Palace in Volterra in June 2023.

Laura’s works are continually evolving toward an irrepressible search for the meaning of human life events, the transformation they produce in our subconscious, and their memory, told and brought to the surface through subtly surreal and often symbolic contexts. Her genre is figurative, and her works speak through portraits of people who can be immersed in dreamlike landscapes and can also speak and convey their true thoughts through the projection of their own shadow.

The medium she prefers is oil painting, sometimes substituted with pastel.

She collaborates with writer Nadezhda Giorgieva Slavova for the realization of the cover of her poetry book titled "Notturno" released at the end of July 2015.

Her painting “Temporal Suggestions” is chosen in 2023 by writer Vanessa Albus/Volker Haase (Ed) for the book “philosophy autobiographical at school and at university.”

Together with nine other contemporary artists, selected by the Marchionni Prize management to create a work specifically for the exhibition “Piacere Non sono Io” at the Civic Museum Ruzittu in Arzachena – Olbia, to be shown alongside great masters such as De Chirico, Magritte, Severini, and Sironi from April 21 to July 23, 2023.

She has received several awards since 2021: Finalist for the Marchionni Prize in 2021, 2022, and 2023 (in which year she also wins the prize for itinerant exhibitions) and also a finalist in 2024; Finalist for the Mestre Painting Prize in 2022, and in 2024 she receives a certificate of merit from the same prize in painting; winner of the Prisma Art Prize second prize in 2021; winner of the Cash Prize at Malamegi Art Rome 2023; winner of the first prize in Painting at the competition “Where is the Future” organized by the gallery “La Grande Bellezza” of Volterra in 2023, and in 2022 the third prize in the competition “Where is Love.” Finalist in the painting section of the Marchionni Prize 2024.

Laura’s website: lauramuolo.com
IG: laura_muolo
Representative gallery: Loyelo Art Gallery of Volterra