Born and raised in Switzerland, she received a passion for painting from her father, the painter Augusto Gianesini, as a child.
In 2002 he moved to Rome where he studied and interacted with artists from different countries and art schools and with whom he continued his pictorial journey. Oil, pastels, watercolours, charcoal and luminescence, all techniques attract her. The search for light and movement is always at the basis of his works, a constant in his art is to try to capture and transmit light even before representing the subject itself. She works both in the studio and en plein air, in Rome and Switzerland, in the city and in nature, which is an infinite source of inspiration for her.

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Tony Favre was born in Aosta in 1958 and in the 1980 he moved to Genoa where he began working on his three-dimensional wooden sculptures after experimenting in the field of graphics and sculpture.
Very active from the point of view of artistic production, in 2012 he created the series of works "Il Mondo in Bilico": an evocative universe, an ideal world, where dreams and reality meet and in which villages perched on an island in the sea they are the absolute protagonists.
The presence of man is only imagined and never told. The works of "Il Mondo in Bilico" are created on wood essences (maple, poplar, larch) which, after being modeled and sculpted, are painted with hot pigmentation, a particular technique that allows the wood to absorb the right amount of color necessary to make it last over time.

Stefano Bolcato lives and works in Rome where he trained at the S. Giacomo School of Ornamental Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts.
The technique he prefers is oil painting which allows him to play with colors obtaining light effects and chromatic shades. His recent works are an interpretation of figurative painting in a POP key, through an original narrative inspired by the world of LEGO bricks.
He has developed a particular sensitivity to the theme of portraiture by studying and reinventing the masterpieces of Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Renée Magritte, Frida Kahlo and other great masters.
He recently exhibited at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, the Archaeological Museum in Salerno, the Permanente Museum in Milan and Palazzo Bonaparte in Rome

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If ceramics has always been born as a minor and less noble art than others because it was created to contain and used for everyday uses, the ceramic sculptures proposed by the La Mongolfiera art gallery will make even the most skeptics think again.

The ceramics created by Riccardo Biavati are not simple aesthetic exercises, but once molded and shaped, they acquire their own aura, becoming characters, icons and sometimes true divinities. For the artist from Ferrara, matter is the painter's "blank canvas", a surface on which to experiment with shapes, textures and colours. Having trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, Biavati dedicated himself to sculpture, favoring ceramic materials. In the 1980s he founded a parallel ceramic workshop "La Bottega delle Stelle" together with his wife.
Among the numerous national and international exhibitions in which he participated and was invited, we highlight that of 1992 in Japan “Contemporary Italian Ceramics” with stops in Daga, Shigaraki and Toki and that of 2001 at the Lungarotti Foundation in Torgiano “Luci Lucerne Lucignoli”. In 2011 he participated in the 54th edition of the Venice Biennale and in 2018 he received the MAM/Master of Arts and Crafts Award from the Cologni dei Mestier d'Arte Foundation. He lives and works in Ferrara.

Vincent Maillard was born in 1957 in Paris, at a young age he moved to Italy and attended the Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti in Genoa. Of a shy and reserved nature, Maillard is a great observer of the world and of the different behaviors and aspects of the human race; through his terracottas he gives life to a light universe. His sculpture is a story full of metaphors, irony and poetry rendered through two protagonists: the little man without a face, or rather called by Osvaldo Guerrieri "Monsieur Zero" who can be all or none and the books that represent values, morality and ideals.

His work is followed with interest by artists, critics and personalities from the world of culture; the presentations by Emanuele Luzzati and Flavio Baroncelli accompanied the sculptures by Vincent Maillard with sensitivity and depth. Since 1999, one of his works has been part of the collection of Chanukkah lamps at the Museo dei Lumi in Casale Monferrato.

The sculptures of Tonino Negri, an artist from Lodi born in 1961, are made of clay taking inspiration from iconographies treated in ancient times, while offering them new life and contemporaneity. The theme of the woman and the mother, the mater matuta, is addressed by Tonino starting from the shape of a vase which becomes a container of life which develops to the point of transforming into a carrier of water. Negri is also very attached to other subjects that stimulate his creativity such as the Ark, a place and symbol of life and aquatic animals. The artist trained as a ceramist and sculptor in the workshops of Gianni Vigorelli and Marcello Chiarenza and has expanded his personal research through travels in Italy and abroad. Among the most important national and international works and exhibitions are "Grande Arca" created in 2009 for the monastic community of Bose by Father Enzo Bianchi and that of 2019 "The door of the sea and sky" created in collaboration with the artist Marcello Chiarenza in Marciana, Elba Island, as part of the Marciana Borgo d'Arte festival. In 2020 he received the MAM/Master of Arts and Crafts Recognition, promoted by the Cologni Foundation of the Masters of Art. One of his works appears in the collection of the Pecci Museum in Prato.

The gallery opening hours are as follows: Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 3.30pm to 7.00pm; on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10.00 to 12.00 and on Saturdays from 10.00 to 12.00 and from 15.30 to 19.00.
The unique works of the artists represented by the gallery are also visible and on sale on the gallery's online shop at the following link https://shop.gallerialamongolfiera.it/
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The Mongolfiera art gallery, on the occasion of the 74th edition of the Sanremo Festival, offers new works by its artists

“Maledetto Gennaio” created in 2016 and “Le kit du viveur” from 2009 are works created in mixed media on panel and inserts that represent the personal artistic language that the Pisan artist Tommaso Santucci began to develop around 2005.
Having recently joined the gallery's parterre of artists, Santucci writes and draws mainly with the black bic pen on pieces of scotch paper and sometimes on preparations with an acrylic base; his works are a sort of personal emotional diary and come to life through writings and drawings made on compositions with multi-materials and self-built canvases.
In 2007 the Pisan artist won the Biennial of young artists of Pisa and in 2008 he participated in the Biennial of young artists of the Mediterranean; in 2013 he won an Artist Residency at the Contemporary Art Center of Essaouira, Ifitry, Morocco and in 2014 he participated in the Casablanca Biennial. He lives in Pisa and works between Italy, France and Switzerland.

The "Faces" and "Chefs" by Antonio Massa offered in the gallery are paintings in acrylic on canvas that enchant the visitor with their ability to convey the human dimension through glimpses of everyday life. The artist's ability to approach different subjects with simplicity and his ability to master painting techniques place him among the most interesting painters on the contemporary scene. To date, his works appear in numerous Italian and foreign private collections.

The gallery opening hours are: Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 3.30pm to 7.00pm; on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10.00 to 12.00 and on Saturdays from 10.00 to 12.00 and from 15.30 to 19.00.

It is also still possible to admire and purchase the unique pieces from the Lisandro Rota exhibition which ended on January 13th "Ironica poesia - Il mondo di Lisandro Rota".

The unique works of art and graphics of the artists represented by the gallery are also visible and on sale on the gallery's online shop at the following link https://shop.gallerialamongolfiera.it/
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