Biography

The Italian painter and architect Annamaria Moramarco was born in Matera and lives in Potenza.
After graduating in architecture, she studied painting and worked as an architect and portrait painter. Meanwhile, she developed her own style and held her first solo exhibition in July 2012 at the Ugo Ferranti Gallery in Rome, and in October 2012 at the cultural association Vera Arte in Bari.
In 2013 she exhibited her works in Berlin at the international art fair Berliner Liste, and at the collective exhibition “Architects in Art”, staged in the castle of Charles V in Lecce. In 2014, she held a solo exhibition at the gallery Porta Coeli, in Acerenza. In October of 2015, she took part in the collective painting exhibition L'Isola che c'è in Palermo, where her work won the First International Cultural Prize. In November of 2015, she exhibited her artworks at Galleria Farini in Bologna. One of the numerous catalogs her works have gotten published in is the 2015 volume of "Donne nell'arte l'eterno femminile tra natura ed artificio da Camille Claudel ad oggi", edited by ARSEV.

Anna Maria Moramarco prefers the Italian figurative tradition, such as Mantegna's and Caravaggio's art, and as a result of her architectural experience and knowledge, she also loves playing around freely with abstract shapes and spacing.
The central theme of her paintings is the exploration of a very personal world of plastic forms, born from a passion for the interpenetration and organic growth of complex geometric volumes.
This research, which began with small ink line drawings on white paper in the 90's, continued with model sculptures in 2010, and finally grew into oil and pastel paintings on canvas in 2011. Over time, these forms became landscapes with gigantic structures, and statues of trees framed with golden leaves. Her recent works summon obscure glances of almost threatening machines, with petrified bodies and traces of unknown writings on them.

Anna Maria Moramarco expresses her visionary and enigmatic world through her work, combining painting, sculpture and architecture.