MARILENA PILLA 

THE ARTIST
Born in Puglia, she lives and works in Bergamo.
For ten years she devoted herself to Interior Decorations and more recently to painting.
With a degree in Scenography from the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, she worked in Sidney, London and New York as a freelance designer.
Now back in Italy, she lives in Bergamo working on decorations and painting. Her works can be seen in different art-exibitions such as the GiòArt Gallery of Lucca.

HER WORKS
Experimenting with colour is part of her work. Her nature is expressed through those Mediterranean colours she can’t do without.
Her favourite theme is the chair or part of it, with no particular attention to perspective and shadows.
The critic Enzo Santese stressed that her work belongs to a neo-iconic trend.
It is a timeless painting where she emphasizes that balance is something very personal like fitted clothes.
The chair repeated over and over,with different shapes, is never the same but it carries an obsession for life constantly in balance with itself and the people it meets. Balance may be achieved or not depending on the situation but her chairs never fall.
The bright colours stand for life, lived to the fullest with joy.
It is an endless search, but also pleasant because it never ends, it is a harmonious but complex journey.

Personal and Group Exhibitions

05/29 June 2006 - Artist Selected by the VSA, to participate at the exhibition "Transformation"at the John Kennedy Centre of Performing Arts - Washington-USA

10/15 March 2006-Collettive exhibition in Madone (BG) -Italy


31 Jan.2006-5 Feb.2006 : Group exhibition with other artists
In Bonate Sotto

Nov.2005/July 2006:I present in the Gio'Art Gallery in Lucca-Italy

24/9-9/10-05-Exhibition in Bonate Sopra - Bergamo- Italy

17/6-26/7-05 -Group Exhibition for the Palm Award at the
Art Domain Gallery -Lipsia-Germany

07/11/2003-04/12/2003 -Group Exhibition in Marziart International Gallery in Hamburg-Germany

2003 - Expoarte of Madrid- October- Madrid

2002-International Exhibition "Filippo Salesi" Sanremo-Italy

1999-Exibition of photography in black and white,"The youth of girls";, Castelnuovo-Italy

1994-Exhibition with the Pod Group at the London Guildhall University

1995-Exhibition at The London Guildhall University

1995-Exhibition at the Concord Gallery in London


1995-Exhibition at one of the most famous store in London-Dickin's & Jones with my prototype of chaise-longe

1992-Competition of Design,"The Swedish Design", London

1992-Competition of photography, "The town", - Castelnuovo, Italy

1989-Exibition of all the design works, ''The design into our lifes''- Foggia, Italy