[English] Renata Solimini (Rome), after classics high-school, during the Academic
year 1992-1993 in China (Nanjing Normal University), studied basics of
Chinese traditional painting and calligraphy. In that period she started her first paintings inspired by Chinese ancient
pictograms. She graduated with a thesis
on ancient writings (Chinese, Egyptian hieroglyphic and Sumerian cuneiform) in
1995. These studies have significantly influenced her artistic inspiration. Over the past few years, her work has explored abstract painting and asemic writing, as well as the cosmos, the feminine figure, fish and the marine world, and apotropaic masks. These masks are also the subject of sculptures crafted from modelling clay. Additionally, her recent sculptural work includes characters from A Midsummer Night's Dream. She has been exhibiting her paintings in several cities in Italy, and abroad in Poland (Warsaw), China (Hangzhou), Russia (Elec) and in the United States (Iowa, Michigan, Nebraska). Paintings and drawings are present at: Juana Romani Exhibition Center and the Luigi Magni e Lucia Mirisola Museum in Velletri (RM), Sartori Archive Collection in Mantova, Multimedia Library of
the National Institute of Tumors Regina Elena in Rome, Polmone Pulsante cultural centre in Rome, in private collections, and has been featured in monographs, online press and magazines published in USA, Australia, India and Italy. In 2015-2017 she collaborated as an Art Duo with the US artist Moan Lisa (Mark Rossmiller), producing four-handed artworks, with different techniques either traditional or digital, exhibited in several shows in US and Italy. In
2020 she worked at a picto-sculpture in collaboration with Andrea
Ungheri, dedicated to Hedy Lamarr (actress and inventor, pioneer of wifi and bluetooth technology) and exhibited
at the Polmone Pulsante cultural centre in Rome. Renata illustrated three books, two of fairy tales (published in 2021 and in 2025) and contributed an illustration to a book of poems (2019). Moreover, she received an Honorable Mention Award for artistic merits in May 2019 within the collective exhibition Splash! Un tuffo nell'Eros and three Art Awards within the Art Prize Velletri Wine Festival Nicola Ferri in September 2019. In October 2023 she received ex-æquo the Art Prize Premio Centro 2023 award, in memory of professor Giorgio Di Genova, art critic and historian.
