Light regained
When I was ten I lived in a bunker for several months while my country, Serbia, was being bombed.
My sole source of relief to escape from the horrors of those days was imagining worlds and creating stories inside the light of the only candle I had. The shadows projected on the walls would turn into the shapes of the ever changing characters of my imagination, I can see my fingers weaving evanescent details which blended with the condensation and the cold. That light shone on an outer space which was too small for a child. I had to create one to become internal, immense. I hold my childhood and its dreams inside that small flame. I sealed the darkness I had inside with the wax and with the wick I tied the memories of a life which was not going to be mine anymore. My art unfolds around the narration of that light. My paintings are symbionts of the game of contrasting light and dark which narrate without revealing, which drain my inner feelings on the canvas preventing the shapes from becoming obstacles.
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Education
2014 Course in Arts, Music and Entertainment, University of Udine
2009 Graduated in Applied Art - Fashion and Costume, E. U. Nordio
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Interior design
‘‘Physys’’ meets Zinelli&Perizzi, Via S. Sebastiano, 1, 34121 Trieste TS
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Group Exhibitions
2022 LUCE, Palazzo Costantino di Napoli, Quattro Canti, Palermo
2022 Lilian Caraian, Sala Veruda
2021 Lilian Caraian Award, Sala Veruda
2019 Young Art Selection, Sala Giubileo
2018 Animality, Lux Art Gallery
2017 Young Art Selection, Sala Giubileo
2017 LYNX Award, Lux Art Gallery
2017 Michele Cea Award, Spazio Seicentro
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Awards
2022 Ex Tempore Prize Coseano
2021 I Prize ‘‘L. Caraian’’ Figurative Art
2019 Ex Tempore Prize Coseano
2019 Scholarship Fine Art School AU
2018 Europe Prize Coseano
2018 Ex Tempore Prize Coseano
2017 Michele Cea I Prize 2nd Edition
2017 Special Prize LYNX
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Online Art Gallery
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Press & Interview
2024 ‘‘Andrea Solaja: Shadows of Art, Nature and War’’, interview with Hue&Eye
2023 ‘‘Vivere di Arte con Andrea Solaja’’ Ep. 5, Baxa podcast
2022 The Mocla Magazine, ‘‘Intervista con Andrea Solaja’’
2022 Rise Art, ‘‘The Figurative Artist of Light and Dark’’
2019 Catalogo dell’Arte Moderna 54, Mondadori
2018 Young Artist Gutenberg Edition
2017 Serbia Reconsidered - Contemporary Artist from Serbia, Imago Mundi