LAURA MUOLO - il trip

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

Laura Muolo, born in 1975, from Milan by birth and Rimini by adoption. She approached art as a self-taught artist from 2013. Her starting medium is graphite, with which she immediately seeks the realism of faces, later turning to other mediums such as pastel and painting.

She participates in many collective 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 Theater 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 in constant evolution towards an irrepressible search for the meaning of events in human life, the transformation they produce in our unconscious, and their memory, told and brought to the surface through subtly surreal and often symbolic contexts. Her genre is figurative; indeed her works speak through portraits of people, who can be immersed in dreamlike landscapes or can also speak and convey their true thoughts through the projection of their own shadow.

The preferred medium 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” was chosen in 2023 by writer Vanessa Albus/Volker Haase (Ed.) for the book “philosophical autobiography at school and university.”

Selected together with nine other contemporary artists by the Marchionni Prize management to create a work specifically for the exhibition “Plaisir I Am Not” at the Civic Museum Ruzittu in Arzachena – Olbia, to be exhibited alongside great masters such as De Chirico, Magritte, Severini, and Sironi from April 21 to July 23, 2023.

Several awards won starting in 2021: Finalist for the Marchionni Prize in 2021-2022-2023 (this year also winning the prize for traveling exhibitions) and finalist again in 2024, Finalist for Mestre Painting Prize in 2022 and in 2024 receiving a certificate of merit from the same prize in the painting category, winner of the Prisma Art Prize second prize in 2021 – winner of the Cash Prize at Malamegi Art Rome 2023 – Winner of the top prize in Painting at the competition “Where is the Future” organized by the gallery “La Grande bellezza di Volterra” in 2023 and in 2022 of the 3rd prize in the “Where is Love” Competition – 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