Margherita Grasselli

Margherita Grasselli was born in Perugia on 27 October, 1970. She began sculpting in September 2005 under the direction of Master Marco Severing, a formal trainer of the Municipality of Rome at the Academy of Fine Arts. Margherita attended these courses for 4 years, handcrafting clay and stone, as well as experimenting with resins and suitable materials for handcrafted sculptures. She also experimented with the technique of coating, especially glazes, her great passion. In addition, Grasselli used many types of colours and oxides. She learned different techniques of shaping with chalk and silicon through the organisation of ad hoc courses in outdoor structures specifically designated to handcrafting. Her favourite material will always be clay. She specialised in handcrafting raku Sila clay, specially blended and treated in accordance with her chamotte request.

In 2013, she launched the LiberArte exhibition space in Rome, via dei Salumi 49. Here the artist established her lab and created an exposition area where her exhibitions, and those of young emerging artists, were set up. During the spring of 2018 she met the curator Ermanno Tedeschi, to whom she has entrusted her artistic growth. Starting from February 2019, she has also opened another workspace in Grottaglie, hosted by the company ‘Ceramiche Nicola Fasano’. Thanks to the owner Franco Fasano, she uses that space to improve her knowledge and experimentation of new shaping, varnishing, and cooking techniques under the supervision of master ceramists and artisans in those fields.

In 2022 she was selected and exhibited at the sixth edition of the SyArt Sorrento Festival, an international art exhibition hosted in the institutional spaces of Villa Fiorentino, home of the Fondazione Sorrento (Na), Italy.

In the same year, she began her collaboration with the SyArt Gallery.

July 2023, Pinocchio e Margherita, MiDEC, Museo della Ceramica e del Design, Laveno, Lake Maggiore, Mombello
March 2023, Adele e le sue sorelle, Un fair, Milano Fiere, Milano
October 2022, Syart Festival, Villa Fiorentino, Sorrento
September 2022, The ballons room, Parallel, Fiera d’arte contemporanea, Semmelweisklinik, Vienna
August 2022, Pinocchio e Margherita, La dama, Museo della ceramica di Grottaglie, Award 1°premio miglior opera, Concorso internazionale di ceramica contemporanea
July 2022, 5VIE Design week, Pinocchio e Margherita, Galleria Rubin, Milano
May 2022, A 4 Mani, con Massimo Lunardon, Martinuzzi, Piazza San Marco, Venezia, Biennale 2022
10 December 2021 – 13 February 2022, Giocare a regola d’arte, Collettiva, a cura di Paolo Giulierini, Direttore del MANN, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Napoli
25 November 2021, Panchina rossa. Stop alla violenza, Installazione pubblica permanente nei Giardini pubblici di Deruta, Deruta, Bando di Concorso
29 October 2021 – 20 February 2022, A Piazza con Greta, Personale, a cura di ermanno Tedeschi, Museo della Ceramica di Mondovì, Mondovì, Residenza d’artista
2 July 2021 – 25 September 2021, Un pomeriggio in Masseria, a cura di Angelo Lippolis, Masseria Palombara Resort and SPA, Oria, Lecce
29 June 2021 – 29 September 2021, Personale Gea..avrò cura di te, G20 Matera -Spazio Espositivo La Lopa, Matera
28 June 2021 – 30 June 2021, Collettiva Fiorinarte, L’arte dialoga con la natura, a cura di Manuela De Leonardis, Museo Orto Botanico di Roma, Roma
6 September 2020 – 10 December 2020, personale Il filo della memoria, a cura di Ermanno Tedeschi, Palazzo Taurino, Palazzo dei Celestini, Palazzo Adorno, Piazza Santa Croce, Lecce
15 July 2020 -15 October 2020, Biennale Internazionale d’Arte Sacra, Il gioco del tempo. Il tempo del gioco, Castello Aldobrandesco, Arcidozzo, Palermo
15 July 2020 -13 September 2020, Collettiva BIAS, Biennale Internazionale d’Arte Sacra, Il gioco del tempo. Il tempo del gioco, Villa Valsanzibio, Palazzo Barbarigo Pizzoni Ardemani Padova
15 July 2020 -13 September 2020, Collettiva BIAS, Biennale Internazionale d’Arte Sacra, Il gioco del tempo. Il tempo del gioco, Marina Yacht Club, Venezia
10 July 2020 – 20 October 2020, Collettiva BIAS, Biennale Internazionale d’Arte Sacra, Il gioco del tempo. Il tempo del gioco, Piazzetta San Marco, Porto Rotondo, Strada degli artisti, Porto Rotondo
20-26 February 2020, personale A casa di Elena, a cura di Ermanno Tedeschi, Studio Tiepolo 38 Galleria d’arte contemporanea, Roma
12 June 2019, Michela in altalena, Lageard architect studios, Turin, (IT)
6 April 2019, Re Opening Villa Sassi, Villa Sassi Torino, Torino (IT)
19 March-20 May 2019, Unforgettable Childhood, group show curated by Ermanno Tedeschi, Juish Museum of Bologna, Bologna (IT)
22 November -29 December 2018, Unforgettable Childhood, group show curated by Ermanno Tedeschi, Italian Institute of Culture, Tel Aviv, (ISRAEL)
14 November -18 February 2019, Future Remembers 4.0, curated by Ermanno Tedeschi, Shoah Memorial, Milan (IT)
21 September-28 October 2018, Unforgettable Childhood, group show curated by Ermanno Tedeschi, National Museum of Ravenna, Ravenna (IT)
26 October 2018, Arimondi 3, Rome art week, Stella Ceramik art studios, Rome, (IT)
14 May – 28 September 2018, Childhood of Saint Agath and Saint Rosaly, Villa Malfitano Witaker, Palermo (IT)
April 2018, personal Suspended sighs, Museum Laboratory Texture on Canvas, Church of San Francis’ Women, Perugia (IT)
23 September-23 October 2017, Moments around the stones, Residence Sassi San Gennaro, Rione Barisano, Matera7-10
August 2017, permanent works in residence, Luxury Hotel Palazzo Gattini, Piazza Duomo, (MT) – La Lopa, Viale Bruno Buozzi, (MT)
9-26 August 2017, The cloister of moments, Abbey of San Michele Arcangelo, Montescaglioso, (MT)
16-24 May 2015, Art in Hortus, Rome Botanical Garden, Rome (IT)
19-22 February 2015, Art in a Kiss, Exhibition Space MICRO, Rome, (IT)
4-17 November 2014, Join in my Heart, Ancient Crypt Basilica of St. Anthony, Rome (IT)
23-27 June 2013, Art as Resource, Creative Room Art Gallery, Rome (IT)
1-4 May 2013, Spring Lune, Viola Ancient Cloister, Perugia (IT)
16 June 2008, Young Artists, Formarte Exhibition Space, Rome (IT)
12-13 April 2006, Emerging Sculptors, La Reginella Gallery, Rome (IT)