Paola GRIZI Italian, b. 1968
A fusion of literature and art, of the book and the human.
Born in Rome in 1968, Paola Grizi brings faces to life from the pages of a book.
Modelled in terracotta or cast in bronze, her sculptures unite her two passions: the written word and modelling.
Pages turn, fold and grow thinner, revealing a gaze, a hand, a meditative face, as if emerging from a thought.
Awarded in Italy and Spain, and held in museum collections in Italy, Spain and China, she creates contemplative works of great elegance that find their natural place in a library, a study or a contemporary interior.
A Worldwide Known Italian Sculptor
• Paola Grizi first became interested in art while she was still a child, mentored by her grandfather who was a famous Italian painter and sculptor. She studied Classics in high school and earned her degree in Italian Literature with first-class honors. After that, Paola Grizi embarked on a career in journalism, at the same time spending time on her art, working heavily with clay.
• Among many prizes, Paola Grizi won the 3rd Biennial International Ceramic Contest of Ascoli Piceno; and she was invited twice in 2014 and 2015 by the Chinese Chanchun Municipality to represent Italy in the China Changchun International Ceramics Symposiums. She also won the Special Public Award at the 35th CICA International Competition de L’Alcora in Spain and then went on to serve on the jury of the same contest in 2016. Additionally she was chosen by the Pontifical Gregorian University in collaboration with the Kunst-Station of Köln in Germany for a Contemporary art project in the Church of Saint Peter, along with eleven other international artists.
• Art Thema permenantly prensenting the latest works of Paola Grizi.
Our main exhibitions :
2022: London Art Fair, London, England
2022: "Horizon", group exhibition, Art Thema Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2021: "Face & Paper", group exhibition, Art Thema Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2021: "Timeless", group exhibition, Art Thema Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2021: "Blooming", group exhibition, Art Thema Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2021: "Together", group exhibition, Art Thema Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
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Another Place -
Background
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Baiser / Kiss
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Book Mark
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Cubic
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Falling Book
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Guess
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Layers
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Looking Ahead
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Multiple Lecture
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Music Sheet
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Opening
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Secret
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Tris
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Who Is The Reader
