As a child, I had colours and paper, earth and stones, flour and water as inseparable companions. Initially, it was about shapes that my mind and hands drew and mixed spontaneously, freely. Then came ideas, content and style, as creativity became the very meaning of my life. Eager to learn more about history and technique of creative arts, I attended the Art High School and later the Academy of Arts in Rome, where I graduated in 2000. I learned and took inspiration from artists such as Mario Maria Bianchi and Gianfranco Baruchello, while starting a number of artistic collaborations. In 2002, my works started being included in exhibitions across Europe. In 2004, I co-founded, along a group of other artists, the Associazione B5, a workshop for Italian and international artists, a platform for cultural events, a space for exhibition, a laboratory of ideas. As I began to feel the need to explore new forms of artistic expressions beyond visual arts, design, scenography and video art, in 2007 I co-founded the Zaier micro- sculpture and jewelry line. I left it in 2016. Today, I keep studying and experimenting as a free-lance, in the never-ending pursuit of creative enrichment through cross-pollination with nature and other human beings.
Ayra Francesca Torricella
Multidisciplinary artist and researcher.
My creative practice is a true inspiration of life, completing itself with the idea, the content and the style.
I meet and spend time with artists such as Mario Maria Bianchi and Gianfranco Baruchello,
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