Premio Combat

/ CV
Lisa Mara Batacchi
Italo American artist, born in Florence, 1980
Lives and works beetwen Florence and Milan
/ EDUCATION
BFA Academy of Fine Arts, Florence (110 with honors)
MA in Art Terapy, Centre C.R.E.T.E, Florence
BA in Fashion Design, Polimoda, Florence
/ GRANTS/WORKSHOPS/TRAINING
2011
commission to coordinate and organize the project for the exhibition Attimi Fondamentali Riccardo Benassi Piero Frassinelli / Superstudio by Alberto Salvadori at the Marino Marini Museum, Florence (I)
2010
Does the sculptor need a camera? Camera as a tool to study time-space, directed by Grzegorz Kowalski.
XIV Biennale Internazionale di Scultura, Carrara
Grant award by the Salzburg International Academy of Fine Arts to partecipate to "The materials of thought, the materials of the work of art directed by Liliana Moro
2007
Out Side project On Invisibility, curated by Dejan Atanackovic, Tanja Ostojic, Edorardo Malagigi, different venues, Belgrade, Serbia
/ FASHION COLLABORATIONS
2012-2003
Working between London, Fucecchio, Prato, Signa, Florence: with View design for Kenneth Cole women shoe lines (Reaction, Kenneth Cole); with Vivienne Westwood Ltd. as a researcher and fashion designer for the Anglomenia line; with Studio Cataldi to follow the research and product development of brands such as Ter et Bantine, Chloè, Vivienne Westwood Anglomania and Wolford; with the company Santacroce, Prada label working as fashion designer; with Appartamento50 ° as a research collaborator for colors and yarns
/ SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2012
Linea Gotica, curated by Federica Forti, Museo del Marmo, Carrara (coming up)
Spiritualità ibride, SomethingLikeThis, Florence (coming up)
2011
Ouverture-Allegro Deciso n.1, site-specific installation, curated by Silvia Petronici, Seventh day of the contemporary art of AMACI, Mezzani (I)
2010
B/label, curated by Irene Balzani, Irene Innocente, spazio Private Flat n°6.5, Florence
Sul disegnare, curated by Lorenzo Bruni ViaNuova contemporary art gallery, Start Point, Florence
Linger On, Solo Presentation, curated by Giovanni Surace, CAD Center for Art and Design, Florence
2009
Traces of Sleep, Solo Presentation, curated by Gianni Pozzi Susanna Ragionieri, Laura Vecere e Sergio Risaliti, Galleria Alessandro Bagnai, Florence
HSP, Hallucinatory Sleep Paralysis curated by Francesco Funghi Sara Vannacci, studio MDT, Prato
Start Point curated by di Gianni Pozzi, Susanna Ragionieri, Laura Vecere, Sergio Risaliti, Istituto degli Innocenti, Florence
2008
Genius Loci curated by Federica Forti, Forte Umberto 1°, Isola Palmaria (I)
2007
Fra Arte e Cinema, Cinema e video d’artista - dalle avanguardie storiche ai contemporanei curated by Andrea Granchi e Silvia Lucchesi, Cinema Alfieri, Florence
Out Side Project On Invisibility curated by Dejan Atanackovic Ex Turkish Bath, Belgrade (SRB)
In Pride of Beauty and Disorder curated by Radu Dragomirescu, San Carlo Dei Barnabiti’s church, Florence
/ SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
AA.VV. Case d’arte-guida ai luoghi della creatività, viol’Art edizioni, Firenze, 2011
AA.VV. Genius Loci, mostra d’arte ambientale itinerante, Athena Edizioni, 2008
news papers
Primo piano Firenze, La Nazione, pag 4-5, 19 maggio 2009
Non solo mare, La Nazione, pag 21, 14 agosto 2008
Exibart.on paper, pag. 53, numero 52, ottobre 2008
My Media, pag 50-53, luglio/settembre 2008
Rd’A, trimestrale di cultura e informazione delle arti visive, pag. 47-52, luglio/agosto/settembre, 2008
/ARTIST STATEMENT
In my work i risorch for the essence in the small differences, by rediscovering nature, daily life and interpersonal exchanges. 
A certain consideration in deeling with such subjects, makes me express with minimal interventions, a search of semplicity and formal harmony to create a contrast with the choice of non noble materials and wiyh the complexity of the issues addressed. 
Therefore, rather than producing a brand new work I’m attracted by automatic practices and the search for processes that lead to objects, sense, a place, starting from an interest in collecting materials both tangible and unaware that refer to people, to fragments of everyday life, to natural elements. Considering important relationships in general the concept of authorship tends to expand, bringing my position more ‘close to that of mediator, trasformibg a simple process of making into a choral product.
/ CONCEPT OPERA IN CONCORSO
While waiting for something to change I’m having fun, 2011
60 backing sheets, installation variable

A research that starts from daily life to grasp some important aspects such as the domestic dimension, the care of our selves and others through small gestures, such as the practice of cooking. This of work is also a first step towards a research of expression of a light and minimal sign visually recalling an opening on a private world made of traces, waiting and randomness. I have found an interest to give a new meaning to some abstract shapes (circle, square, triangle, swirl, spiral, rectangle) which I gain knoledge of throgh sweets recipes, gathered from the journals of the multicultural tradition of my family.
/1’ OPERA A SUPPORTO
Till the end of the world, 2011
5 used backing papers, pins, wodden frames of different measure, plexiglass
In Till the end of the world I left my mother the role to repeat the same cake more times and to hold on to the backing papers used for the cakes. I selected 5 of them which placed horizontally one after the other will give the idea of the various stages of an eclipse. This change in roles far from shifting the focus off the artist offers like this an encounter between man/world by sharing a feeling beyond the powers of ordinary things.