Maria Coluccelli

MARIA COLUCCELLI (Lima, Peru, 1970).
"Amalthea Coelodendrum", 2022.
Mixed media on stuccoed board.
Signed.
Certificate of authenticity attached.
Measurements: 180 x 92 cm.
"I use in my work the symbol of the broken horn of the goat Amalthea, with whom Zeus used to play, converted into the horn of plenty or cornucopia, provider of riches for anyone who possessed it, in this case, it serves to represent the abundance of life in the oceans (....).) Maybe it was 1974 or 75, my mother used to take me to the Peruvian consulate in Madrid, from where we had emigrated a few years before, to resolve the formalities regarding my legal residence in Spain. I remember the dark rooms of that huge apartment whose walls were covered with tapestries showing the coat of arms of Peru, and its symbols: the vicuña, the cinchona tree and the cornucopia, the latter of which particularly attracted my attention".
Maria Coluccelli graduated in Fine Arts, specializing in Painting, at the Complutense University of Madrid, where she also took a monographic course in mural painting and restoration. In 2010 she took a postgraduate course in Natural Drawing at the University of Barcelona, having previously completed a doctorate at the same faculty. Multidisciplinary artist, she develops oil painting, mural painting, illustration, collage and performance. His recent exhibitions include: Collective Jornades Internacionals Real Academia de Sant Jordi, Barcelona 2013; Individual "Not so secret anymore" Casa de la Princesa. Barcelona 2011; Selected and acquisition of work in International Painting Competition Foundation of Arts and Artists. European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM), Barcelona 2011; Individual Gallery Sabor Café, Barcelona 2010; Collective Fem Art; Barcelona. She has been selected and runner-up in: Honorable Mention Contest "Artists of New Harvest" organized by Bodegas Gurpegui, Navarra/ Madrid 2004; "25th Anniversary of the Spanish Constitution", Casa de la Moneda Museum, Madrid 2003, among others. With large-format triptychs he was part of the "Scent canvas" project, in which the perfumer Beatrice Aguilar invited renowned painters to interpret through pigments what for them evoked a certain fragrance. On that occasion Coluccelli transposed to oil the subtle multisensory nuances inspired by Aguilar and Jordi Fernández's Rosa ópera scent.