Angelica Romeo

Angelica Romeo was born in Rome in 1970 and spent her growing years between Perugia, Monza and the capital. From an early age she breathed the smell of linseed oil, alongside her mother and grandmother both painters. Over the years she nurtured her attraction to art and already by high school age she often skipped school to attend a well-known restoration workshop on Via Margutta in Rome. She later enrolled in Colalucci's school of restoration and graduated.

During her formative years, her many travels and family vicissitudes led her to desire not only rapid independence, but also personal fulfillment while holding fast to her creative nature. Driven by this early ambition, at only 21 years old she jumped at an opportunity and entered the world of work as an entrepreneur in the furniture business, to which she devoted herself successfully for almost 10 years. She will return to her first love “painting” only after a break forced by the arrival of her first child. These are years of great personal changes, growth, satisfaction but also painful experiences. And perhaps it will be the latter that will give her the decisive push to want to “Abstraction” from everyday life by throwing herself body and soul into painting.

Angelica made her debut with her first solo exhibition in 2009 in Rome at the Romberg Gallery with an exhibition entitled “Actions, Contractions, Revelations” curated by Gianluca Marziani, in which she presented a work that apparently evokes post-informal but that interprets with respect and rigor the color of the masters of the past. She participated in 2010 in some group exhibitions in Rome, including, “Stop Abuse of Women” at the Museo delle Mura and “Art without Borders” for Doctors without Borders at Palazzo Colonna. In 2011, her second solo exhibition entitled “De Aqua” set up in the space of Circolo Acquaniene in Rome; in 2012, she takes part in the fourth edition of “ Fabula in art ” group exhibition for the children of Mozambique set up in the complex of San Salvatore in Lauro. In 2014, she is present with his works from the collection “VINYLE” in the suite of the Art First Hotel “ for Art Carpet curated by Mucciaccia Gallery. In the same year at the turn of 2014/2105, she participated in the group show “Baculus” at the Palazzo Collicola museum in Spoleto. In 2015, she is among the protagonists of the prestigious event “Smart Made In Italy” wanted by the Italian Embassy in Monaco to promote the excellence of Made in Italy in the spectacular setting of the Yacting club in Monte Carlo.

In June 2017, she is a guest artist with earth-themed works at the prestigious event HEART and AND SOIL promoted by FAO. In 2018 a double solo exhibition with artist Brigita Huemer entitled “Emotiva” at Mucciaccia Contemporary gallery in Rome, artistic direction by Giulia Abate, curated by Cesare Biasini Selvaggi. Also in the same year, she participates in two international projects curated by Ermanno Tedeschi, “Unforgettable childhood” traveling exhibition in different cities ended at the Carlo Bilotti Museum in ROME in February 2020, and “Future memories” at the Shoah Memorial track 21 Milan. She is currently collaborating with the Mucciaccia Contemporary Gallery in Rome. Her works are exhibited in different places in Rome. Important international projects in progress.

From December 2020, Angelica opened a new creative laboratory 'IMMAGINARYA ART LAB “ also home of her art studio together with the artist sculptor Quirino Cipolla which is based in Via Angelo Emo under the Vatican museums. In November 2022, she participated in the international exhibition SYART SORRENTO FESTIVAL in the prestigious Villa Fiorentino museum in Sorrento. In 2023, she is part of a group exhibition entitled TIMELESS IMMORTAL ART CHINA, at the Moon Bay center in Tunxi city in China, she exhibits her works at ROMA ARTE IN NUVOLA in the beautiful setting of the FUKSAS Cloud at Eur.

Angelica Romeo's Art is predominantly textural and tends to be monochromatic, although her search for color and the play of layers, often leads her to bright and polychromatic contrasts, opting for a strong base, which captures the variables in defect and excess basic component of all works, the artist makes use of different materials: mortars, sands, plaster, fabrics, threads, cardboard, paper, cement, resin, depending on the current project. Her works almost always follow an emotional trace, a collective theme to investigate, a search for the inner aspects of life. For the most part they express personal states of mind of a sometimes painful experience, but they also sing the praises of love for the earth and nature and its primordial elements such as water, air, fire. She rarely falls into the temptation of informal abstract because her gestural work follows a careful rigor according to a logic that nevertheless makes her works recognizable. Cuts, fractures, ruptures divide the canvases into two as if to denounce a double identity, proper to the artist's family experience. Cuts, fractures, ruptures divide the canvases into two as if to denounce a double identity, proper to the artist's family experience. Her style rigorous in composition and respect for the balance of form, nevertheless conveys strength and liveliness proper to her character.

In her most recent works, in fact, one can perceive a desire to break some of the patterns she has set for herself, going beyond monochrome, and daring brighter colors, which convey to the viewer a sense of well-being and positivity.