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Cecilia GRANARA

Cecilia Granara often celebrates the female body and its state of inner consciousness – mental and emotional – in constant evolution.

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

Granara reaffirms the universal role of women, through sexual representations that are both free, joyful, and grotesque. Fascinated by the massive generalization of the self-care philosophy, Cecilia Granara questions this state of emergency to meditation around which groups of women (most often) gather in search of a reappropriation of their own body and its magic.

Cecilia Granara's painting is situated precisely where the body is confused: when it enjoys, when it suffers, when it wakes or falls asleep, when it responds, when it heals. A reconnection to one's intimate being then exults, as well as 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.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

  • 2019 / MFA Exchange, Hunter College, New York
  • 2018 / DNAP, ENSBAP, professors: 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 / Je suis avant, je suis presque, je suis jamais, cur. Ekaterina Shcherbakova, Parc Saint Léger, Pougues-les-Eaux
  • 2020 / Amies, Muses, Artistes, 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 an Activator of Digital Art, cur. Alice Bonnot, Carreau du Temple, Paris
  • 2015 / Zones of Temporary Utopias, cur. Alice Bonnot, L’Amour, Bagnolet, Paris

AWARDS – GRANTS – RESIDENCIES

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