The Angels protect and accompany us since we came down to this earth and if, as John Rusking wrote, someone really sees the Angels where others see only an empty space, then let’s paint them!!!!

The genesis of this exhibition derives from an inner movement born from a study on world religions and from the observation of the universal presence of the Angels that goes far beyond the borders of western culture.

In general, in the iconography of these celestial figures (except in some particular cases) they are complementary to sacred images more than truly protagonists. red more >>

The works on display were made from 2003 to 2005, a period in which Cinzia Cotellessa exhibited at Villa Rufolo in Ravello and participates in a series of events including AMOR PER ROMA with Club Canova, where for the occasion she presents her “Colosseum”, a large oil painting, receives a prize for painting at the Teatro Belli, and again she presents her Castel dell’Ovo (large painting) at UNA FINESTRA SU NAPOLI, a Canova event. She concludes this period with an exhibition entitled “Dreams, Signs and Pigment”, ..red more >>

“… Women who have time and desire to love ….“

this is a phrase by Rodin to which our artist is very attached, so much so that in 1999 at Palazzo Barberini in Rome, Cinzia Cotellessa, inaugurated an exhibition with the aforementioned phrase: an exhibition basically consisting of portraits of women of all ages and ethnicities , naked and not …

Daniela Romano wrote about her: red more >>

The genesis of this collection called “Sediantropomorfa” began in 2014 immediately after the artist finished another great work in sanguine, “Il piede del golfista” 100 × 70 cm. Starting from the concept that according to the artist there is neither the figurative nor the abstract red more >>

  It all began in the far 1980 when, fresh from artistic high school and architecture tables, Cinzia Cotellessa begins to use Indian ink to make naive landscapes full of lines and dots that magically became volumes and chiaroscuro … and then gradually her style seems to change red more >>

“… CHE PALLE … !!!” that is, the broken balls, minimalist works in mixed technique and oil and related to cracking art. The irony proper to this type of painting becomes a real banner for this artist. Even in her figurative works there is always a thread of humor already appeared in 2004 in the work “La diciannovesima buca”, a large sanguine 100×70,, a nude that is ironically inspired by the noble sport of golf and, in this particular work, to everything outside of it  red more>>

The figurative art has always been full of symbolisms sometimes hidden and mysterious, sometimes esoteric, sometimes linked to something that the artist could not represent openly…

Symbol, a word that derives from the Greek verb symballo, “to reunite” two parts of an object and this reunion allows the recognition of a commonality between the owners of each half and in this it joins the theory of Plato’s hermaphrodites, but the whole that is created still retains, even in the new identity, the trace of the difference of a sense that does not close…..red more >>

Understanding how an inspiration is born is not a simple thing but the characteristic of the artist Cinzia Cotellessa is her joie de vivre and the curiosity that often leads her to venture successfully even in philosophies far from her western culture. In the path of each artist there is always research. The research belongs to this “profession” and perhaps an artist who does not search is not a true artist ….. red more >>

Telling the life and work of an artist like Cinzia Cotellessa, who has worked for over thirty years passing through many periods and styles, is a complex operation.

I just want to remember her sanguine, her nudes, the delicious Angels, portraits of great artists and then, in the aniconic phase, the golf balls and now the eggs, always interspersed with the ribbon of life, the ribbon that accompanied various periods of her painting, binding them to each other…. red more. >>