ATELIER LIVIA PERTILE
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LIVIA PERTILE
BIOGRAPHY
Livia Pertile was born in Padua, where she attended the ‘Selvatico’ Art Institute; having an immediate love for painting, she began attending courses in Paris. Back in Italy, she frequented her mother's painting studio and it was there, in that 16th-century Palladian Villa, that she began her pictorial research, naturally building on her academic studies and Parisian courses. A quest influenced by his love of cars (a love he inherited from his father), nature and animals, particularly horses.
She paints, breeds English greyhounds and Arabian horses, participates in horse races and vintage car rallies, paints.In 1994 the big breakthrough, she is invited to the young Venice Biennale and it is a success.
Despite her young age, important critics were interested in her painting; Lucio Barbera wrote about Livia: ‘ [...] a modern Flemish or an authentic hyperrealist: this is how Livia Pertile appears to me today. [...]’, it was 1996. In 2005, after about ten years of participation in important exhibitions (Bologna, Padua, Palermo, Turin, Milan, etc.) and solo shows, both public and private (Cefalù, Taormina, Palermo, Cortina, Venice, Padua, Florence, Vicenza, Monte Carlo, New York, Istanbul, the Arab Emirates, etc.), Pertile officially entered Metropolism with an evocative and qualifying solo exhibition in Rome.
She joins the Metropolism movement also because Achille Bonito Oliva wrote: ‘ [...] the European character of Metropolism is opposed to the informational pragmatism of much Anglo-Saxon art through the return to painting of a synthetic and reflective dimension, capable of questioning its own status, its own function within the history of our time’.
Her versatility and desire for innovation pushed Pertile towards painting on ceramics in the new century. Learning the techniques of the Sicilian master ceramists, Livia conducted in-depth research into the history of Patti (an Italian town in the province of Messina) and produced forty panels commissioned by a collector, which are now part of the town's heritage. Subsequently, Pertile continued to be fascinated, undoubtedly influenced by her friendship with Rossana Caleca, by the world of ceramics, starting a collaboration with the renowned company ‘C A L E C A’; Livia's works thus became part of ‘Piatti d'artista’, a prestigious collection established by the company.
Artistic challenges attracted the artist and Livia embarked on a new creative path, deciding to create a unique collection of hand-painted garments and accessories that transposed her ideas and style onto leather and canvas: pictorial innovation and the search for uniqueness came together in the ‘Art in Motion’ line.
‘Art in Motion’ was created as a demonstration that a work of art, fully imbued with its value and message, can be embodied in a unique and personal object (garment or accessory) that accompanies the wearer, becoming a work of art that always walks with you. Each painted bag is unique and the designs are conceived directly by the artist. Another sign of authenticity is given by the themes dear to Livia: nature, animals, women and cars, the latter seen not as objects of luxury, but as a link between society and the evolution of technology and design.
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