Antonia Calabrese, nata nel salernitano e cresciuta in Toscana, ha completato gli studi a Roma dove ha conseguito la Laurea Magistrale in Storia dell’Arte presso l’Accademia di Belle Arti.
Vive in Cilento. Si dedica alla letteratura sacra e contemporanea, alla poesia, alla scultura e alla pittura. Ha partecipato a mostre d’Arte personali e collettive. È appassionata di Mail Art e sue opere sono state esposte in Italia, Spagna, Portogallo, Germania, Francia, Grecia, Paesi Bassi, Norvegia, Brasile, Perù, Russia, Stati Uniti, Argentina e Turchia.
Nel 1992 ha pubblicato i commentari biblici “Lo Spirito e la Sposa” e “L’Agnello”.
Premiata con il “Premio Cilento Donna 2015”, nel 2019 ha teorizzato e divulgato il “Manifesto del Movimento Artistico Mutazionista” per spiegare la sua controcorrente.
Nel 2020 ha pubblicato i primi quattro volumi della Collana PoeticaMente e nel 2021, a gennaio, il suo primo romanzo dal titolo “Welcome”; successivamente, a fine luglio, il romanzo “Un’altra vita”.
Antonia Calabrese is an independent artist and writer, born in the Alta Valle del Sele in the spring of 1958 and raised in Tuscany, in Arezzo. She attended the “Piero della Francesca” Art Institute in the section of Fashion and Theatrical Costume, where she excelled academically. She completed her artistic studies by obtaining a Master’s Degree in Art History (LM89) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, specializing in Sculpture under the guidance of renowned sculptor Pericle Fazzini.
While in Rome, she collaborated as a writer for the cultural magazine Giornate italiane. Since the 1990s, she has been living on the Cilento coast, where she has devoted her time to her passion for poetry, sculpture, painting, digital art, and mail art. Her poetry has been collected in the PoeticaMente series, which reflects her artistic background.
In 1992, Antonia published her first work, “L’Agnello” and the biblical commentary “Lo Spirito e la Sposa.” She served as Honorary Inspector of Fine Arts for the province of Salerno and Section Manager ULMO at the Ministry of Labor, which later merged with the Provincial Administration of Salerno and then with the Regional Government of Campania.
Antonia’s art has been showcased in numerous personal and collective exhibitions in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, France, Greece, the Netherlands, Norway, Brazil, Peru, Russia, the United States, Argentina, and Turkey. Although not originally from Cilento, her artistic and literary work has been recognized with the Cilento Donna Award in 2015.
In 2019, Antonia realized that contemporary art needed new impulses to change attitudes and methods of art consumption, and she theorized and promoted the Mutazionista Artistic Movement Manifesto, which exemplifies her countercurrent views.
Antonia’s passion for writing is evident in her latest works. In 2020, she published the first volumes of the PoeticaMente series, followed by her debut novel “Welcome” in January 2021. Her latest work, “30 notti all’alba,” marks her fourth novel. Antonia describes herself as an artist who interprets the instinctive and unconscious religiosity at the roots of her being. Her works appeal to a natural, deistic, and atavistic mysticism, culminating in the spontaneous manifestation of a simple aspiration to the divine, the perfect, and the immortal, which characterizes her soul.
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