Angelica Romeo
was born in Rome in 1970 and spent her growing years between Perugia, Monza and the capital. From an early age she breathed the smell of linseed oil, alongside her mother and grandmother both painters . Over the years she nurtured her attraction to art and already by high school age she often skipped school to attend a well-known restoration workshop on Via Margutta in Rome. She later enrolled in Colalucci’s school of restoration and graduated.
During her formative years, her many travels and family vicissitudes led her to desire not only rapid independence, but also personal fulfillment while holding fast to her creative nature. Driven by this early ambition, at only 21 years old she jumped at an opportunity and entered the world of work as an entrepreneur in the furniture business, to which she devoted herself successfully for almost 10 years.
She will return to her first love “painting ” only after a break forced by the arrival of her first child. These are years of great personal changes, growth, satisfaction but also painful experiences. And perhaps it will be the latter that will give her the decisive push to want to “ Abstraction” from everyday life by throwing herself body and soul into painting. She made her debut with her first solo exhibition in 2009 in Rome at the Romberg Gallery with an exhibition entitled “Actions, Contractions, Revelations” curated by Gianluca Marziani, in which she presented a work that apparently evokes post-informal but that interprets with respect and rigor the color of the masters of the past. He participated in 2010 in some group exhibitions in Rome, including , “Stop Abuse of Women” at the Museo delle Mura and “Art without Borders ” for Doctors without Borders at Palazzo Colonna.
In 2011 her second solo exhibition entitled “ De Aqua ” set up in the space of Circolo Acquaniene in Rome; in 2012 she takes part in the fourth edition of “ Fabula in art ” group exhibition for the children of Mozambique set up in the complex of San Salvatore in Lauro. In 2014 she is present with his works from the collection “VINYLE” in the suite of the Art First Hotel “ for Art Carpet curated by Mucciaccia Gallery . In the same year at the turn of 2014/2105 he participated in the group show “Baculus” at the Palazzo Collicola museum in Spoleto. In 2015 he is among the protagonists of the prestigious event “Smart Made In Italy” wanted by the Italian Embassy in Monaco to promote the excellence of Made in Italy in the spectacular setting of the Yacting club in Montecarlo.In October 2015 he exhibited at the CIRCOLO TENNIS CLUB PARIOLI in Rome in a double solo exhibition organized by Galleria Mucciacciaccia for the cycle “ ARTE IN CIRCOLO” curated by Gianluca Marziani and Giulia Abate. In 2016 she participates in the collective in favor of the earthquake victims at “ARTISTS FOR AMATRICE” organized by Gallery Mucciaccia.Also in 2016 he is present at “ DISTRICT ART” live event at GUIDORENI DISTRICT . In May 2017 she inaugurates the exhibition “ PRESENCE ABSENCES ” in which she participates not only as an artist but also as the creator and coordinator of the project for the EITCH BORROMINI ART GALLERY . In June 2017 he is a guest artist with earth-themed works at the prestigious event HEART and
AND SOIL promoted by FAO .In 2018 a double solo exhibition with artist Brigita Huemer entitled “Emotiva” at Mucciaccia Contemporary gallery in Rome, artistic direction by Giulia Abate, curated by Cesare Biasini Selvaggi . Also in the same year she participates in two international projects curated by Ermanno Tedeschi, “Unforgettable childhood” traveling exhibition in different cities ended at the Carlo Bilotti Museum in ROME in February 2020, and “ Future memories” at the Shoah Memorial binary 21 Milan. She is currently collaborating with the Mucciaccia Contemporary Gallery in Rome. His works are exhibited in different places in Rome . Important international projects in progress.
From December 2020 she opened a new creative laboratory ‘IMMAGINARYA ART LAB “ also home of her art studio together with the artist sculptor Quirino Cipolla which is based in Via Angelo Emo under the Vatican museums. In November 2022 she participated in the international exhibition SYART SORRENTO FESTIVAL in the prestigious Villa Fiorentino museum in Sorrento. In 2023 he is part of a group exhibition entitled TIMELESS IMMORTAL ART CHINA , at the Moon Bay center in Tunxi city in China. In 2024 with SyArt Gallery in Sorrento, he exhibits her works at ROMA ARTE IN NUVOLA in the beautiful setting of the FUKSAS Cloud at Eur.
Angelica Romeo’s Art is predominantly textural and tends to be monochromatic ,although her search for color and the play of layers, often lead her to bright and polychromatic contrasts, opting for a strong base ,which captures the variables in defect and excess. In addition to acrylic , a basic component of all works ,the artist makes use of different materials : mortars, sands, plaster, fabrics, threads, cardboard, paper, cement, resin, depending on the current project. His works almost always follow an emotional trace, a collective theme to investigate, a search for the inner aspects of life. For the most part they express personal states of mind of a sometimes painful experience ,but they also sing the praises of love for the earth and nature and its primordial elements such as water ,air ,fire.
She rarely falls into the temptation of informal abstract because his gestural work follows a careful rigor according to a logic that nevertheless makes his works recognizable. Cuts, fractures ,ruptures divide the canvases in two as if to denounce a double identity, proper to the artist’s family experience. Cuts, fractures ,ruptures divide the canvases in two as if to denounce a double identity, proper to the artist’s family experience. Her style rigorous in composition and respect for the balance of form, nevertheless conveys strength and vivacity proper to her character. In her most recent works, in fact, one can perceive a desire to break some of the patterns she has set for herself , going beyond monochrome ,and daring brighter colors,
which convey to the viewer a sense of well-being and positivity.
ANGELICA ROMEO
Material transmutations
Observing Angelica Romeo’s work claims a catharsis. It can be asserted that in the act of exploration, the viewer’s eye is acutely involved in the original process of chromatic and material synthesis of her research that leads precisely to a purification.
Color transmutes matter in a reciprocal exchange in which the perimeters turn out to be imaginary, and the intervention of the artist, who shapes and combines pigments by joining them with various materials, remains the supporting element of a dialogue of post-informal origin.
The study and training in the field of restoration and his innate propensity for deep knowledge of aesthetics, lead Romeo up to today’s production that reaches profiles of high cultural, artistic and content level.
The final result is obtained by monochromatic or bichromatic superimposition/subtraction, in a sort of corporeal and conceptual dance around the support and in which the author balances instinctuality and rationality with remarkable results.
Rossella Savarese
(art historian, gallerist and curator SyArt)