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Cecilia Granara

Cecilia Granara often celebrates the female body and its constantly evolving inner state of consciousness - mental and emotional.

The color in her paintings is not aesthetic, but symptomatic of the energy of the forms she multiplies to the point of welcoming flames, animals and nature, creating scenarios capable of highlighting ancestral stories, anthropomorphic mutations and expelled or intertwined bodies, to the point of assuming positions reminiscent of Yoga or Savasana. The idea of transformation and moulting is present in his relationship to expression.

Granara reaffirms the universal role of women, through sexual representations that are at once free, joyful and grotesque. Fascinated by the widespread adoption of the self-care philosophy, Cécilia Granara questions this state of urgent meditation, around which groups of women (more often than not) gather in search of a reappropriation of their own bodies and their magic.

Cécilia Granara's painting takes place exactly where the body is confused, when it enjoys, when it suffers, when it wakes up or falls asleep, when it responds, when it heals. The result is a reconnection with one's inner self, but also an affirmation of one's social and political role, and a redefinition of one's representations.

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Biography

Cecilia Granara is an Italian artist born in 1991. She lives and works in Paris.

TRAINING

  • 2019 / MFA Exchange, Hunter College, New York
  • 2018 / DNAP, ENSBAP, teachers: Tim Eitel and François Boisrond
  • 2013 / BA Fine Arts (Honours), Central St Martins College of Art and Design, London

SOLO EXHIBITIONS - SELECTION

  • 2020 / Lasciare Entrare, Lasciare Andare, Studiolo Project, Milan
  • 2019 / The Whole World Weeping, MFA Hunter College Galleries, New York

GROUP EXHIBITIONS - SELECTION

  • 2020 / Green Go Home, cur. Rirkrit Tirvanija & Tomas Vu, Hua International, Berlin
  • 2020 / I am before, I am almost, I am never, cur. Ekaterina Shcherbakova, Parc Saint Léger, Pougues-les-Eaux
  • 2020 / Friends, Muses, Artists, cur. Rodica Seward, Maison Tajan, Paris
  • 2020 / Masculinités, cur. Thomas Havet, Le Sept Elzevir, Paris
  • 2020 / Your Friends and Neighbours, High Art, Paris
  • 2020 / The Independent Summit: Friendship, Solidarity, Alliances, cur. Giulia Ferracci, Elena Motisi and Valerio Del Baglivo, MAXXI, Rome
  • 2019 / Flesh and Bone, cur. Loïc le Gall, PS120, Berlin
  • 2019 / Nous qui Desirons Sans Fin, cur. Marion Bataillard, Fondation Fiminco, Romainville
  • 2019 / On view, cur. Henri Guette, La Vitrine, Paris
  • 2019 / Nothing Happens/Everything matters, cur. Nathanaelle Herbelin, Onzième lieu, Paris
  • 2018 / NGORO NGORO II, cur. Christian Achenbach, Jonas Burgert , Zhivago Duncan, Andrej
  • 2018 / Golder, John Isaacs, Andreas Mühe, David Nicholson, Artists Weekend, Berlin
  • 2017 / Blue But Not Blue, cur. Cecilia Granara and Isabella Hin, Beaux Arts de Paris
  • 2015 / Full House, cur. Cecilia Granara, Le Cabinet Dentaire, Paris
  • 2015 / The Body as Digital Art Activator, cur. Alice Bonnot, Carreau du Temple, Paris
  • 2015 / Zones d'Utopies Temporaires, cur. Alice Bonnot, L'Amour, Bagnolet, Paris

AWARDS - SCHOLARSHIPS - RESIDENCIES

  • 2020 / Finalist Premio Cairo
  • 2019 / Finalist Prix Antoine Marin, nominated by Hervé Di Rosa
  • 2019 / Erasmus scholarship, MFA exchange, Hunter College, New York
  • 2016 / Love, Bagnolet
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