
PIETRA BARRASSO
Born in Venticano in the province of Avellino in 1963. Attracted to painting since she was a child, once she reached adolescence she enrolled in the Art Institute "Paolo Anania De Luca" in Avellino where she obtained the title of Master of Art, subsequently concluding the academic path in the specialty of advertising graphics and photography in which she obtained the highest marks. She then continued to develop her strong predisposition for painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples with Armando De Stefano, a student of Emilio Notte, one of the most important exponents of Italian Futurism. She obtained numerous awards from public institutions, where she made herself known thanks to the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities that hired her for her excellent skills in the restoration of ancient works. Public bodies, museums, and publishing houses commissioned important paintings and entrusted her with tasks of high graphic responsibility, as can be seen from the complete artistic biography that we recommend consulting. Her works therefore enter the artistic heritage of the Chamber of Deputies, Embassies, Regions, Provinces and numerous Italian Municipalities. She also has the opportunity to interact with internationally renowned artistic circles: from Pietro Annigoni to Robert Carroll, Pericle Fazzini, José Ortega, Aligi Sassu, Gregorio Sciltian, Orfeo Tamburi, Ernesto Treccani and in particular Aligi Sassu will be her tutor thanks to the cordial friendship established in their professional relationship. When she moves from Irpinia to Rome, she meets Antonio Corpora and becomes his student. In 2011 she is present at the 54th Venice Biennale proposed by Vittorio Sgarbi. In 2013 she is invited by Prof. Giulia Sillato, an art historian in the tradition of Roberto Longhi, to be present in the Metaformismo© exhibitions, a new historical artistic vision based on the visual perception of form. Numerous honors that he manages to obtain for his evident talent: European Personality for Art in 2012 - Bronze Medal of the Chamber of Deputies in 2012 - Representation Award of the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities in 2015 - Medal of the President of the Senate of the Republic in 2017. Countless exhibitions in Italy: Potenza, Rome, Spoleto, Assisi, Perugia, Arezzo, Volterra, Carrara, Forte dei Marmi, Lucca, Florence, Bologna, Savona, Genoa, Turin, Biella, Monza, Milan, Bergamo, Brescia, Verona, Trento. Equally countless are the exhibitions abroad: Monte Carlo, Nice, Aix en Provence, Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, Stuttgart, Munich, Berlin, Brussels, Luxembourg, Bruges, Amsterdam, London, Dublin, Basel, Lugano, Reinach, Vienna, Warsaw, Bratislava, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Malta, Los Angeles, Chicago, Springfied, Worcester, Cambridge, Boston, New York, Beijing, Tokyo. From 2014 to today he has followed an important path of institutional exhibitions, as can be seen from the complete artistic biography that we recommend consulting. His work is partially catalogued in the “Catalogue of Modern Art from the post-war period to today” by Editoriale Giorgio Mondadori. It is considered with attention by many well-known critics: Giovanni Faccenda, Mara Ferloni, Giammarco Puntelli, Giuseppe Selvaggi, Vittorio Sgarbi, Giulia Sillato, Mario Verdone, Stefano Zecchi.