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Lucrezia Cutrufo

Lucrezia Cutrufo (NOTO 1960). Saint Anthony of Padua - portrait, 2019. Mixed media on canvas (oil, acrylic and crystals), signature, title and date on the back. cm60x30. Lucrezia CUTRUFO lives in Rome, where she graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart. She was born in eighteenth-century Baroque Noto, in eastern Sicily. Her painting teacher was her mother, a student in Tuscany of the cowherd painter Graziella Battigalli known as "Nerina la Maremmana." Starting with watercolor, the Artist went through experimentations with other techniques, pencil, charcoal, tempera, up to oil. Later, he abandoned figurative art to express himself in informal painting. In July 2016, he founded a current of Spatialism that he called "Spatialism of the Soul" because it adds a fourth dimension to the three already indicated by Fontana in the 1940s, the transcendent dimension, concretely expressed in crystals that reflect light. More properly, the crystals give visibility to the human soul that refracts the Light of God to the extent relative to each person's nature, and faith and will. This "theocentric" theory is the fruit and synthesis of the Artist's spiritual formation matured in a Catholic environment (from her families of origin to her studies at a historic Liceo Classico in Noto formerly a Jesuit College, to the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome where she graduated, to the spiritual path she traveled in the Catholic Church) and her theological formation matured through the study of the texts of Cardinal Ratzinger, then Benedict XVI, and Moral Theology at the Jesuit Pontifical Gregorian University. The Exhibition-Manifesto of the Spatialism of the Soul, held at the Vatican on Candlemas Day 2017, was widely reported in the print press and on the web. The Artist expounded his theory of Spatialism of the Soul through the writing of two Manifestos: the first, published in February 2017 and endorsed by a group of intellectuals, art critics, theologians, politicians and art collectors, reveals the means by which spiritual impressions are poured onto the canvas with colors and light; the second, published in May 2023, explicates the natural development of the basic theory, evolved into the creation of "spiritual portraits." The WORKS of Soul Spatialism have been EXPOSED at: - La Pigna Gallery, Vatican City, Exhibition-Manifesto Feb. 2-6, 2017 - Galerie Mona Lisa, Paris, Feb. 15-23, 2017 - Galerie Pinna, Berlin, Feb. 11-21, 2017 - Altare della Patria (Vittoriano, Ala Museo Brasini), Rome, Triennial Exhibition of Visual Arts, March 25-April 21, 2017 - Grand Palais, Paris, Art Capital, Feb. 12-17, 2019 - Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, October 18-20, 2019 - "Arte Padova," Padua, 30th Exhibition of Modern and Contemporary Art, November 14-18, 2019 - Espace Fontvieille, Monaco, August 21-23, 2020 - International Art Contest "Art and VirTus," Virtual Exhibition, 2nd Edition 2021 AWARDS: - Grand Prix Paris Saint Germain de Prés, Paris, February 15, 2017 (delivered at the Vatican by Soprano Chiara Taigi) - Grand Prix des Beaux Arts de Paris, Paris, February 12, 2019 CATALOGUES: - Catalog of the 2017 Triennial Visual Arts Exhibition, work-first of Soul Spatialism "Contemplation" on the cover - Atlas of Contemporary Art 2021, Ed. De Agostini, pgs.855-856 - Atlas of Contemporary Art 2024, Ed. Giunti, under the sponsorship of the Metropolitan Museum of New York, pg.769

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