Venetian Mores

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Provocation or decency? The custom of wearing the female Venetian mask, with decorations and symbols that makes it mysterious, could be interpreted in many ways. In her photography of the Carnival of Venice, Dora Bertolutti Howard often surprises femininity that not so much is hidden, as it is protected with sweet kindness behind the mask. The attention Dora Bertolutti Howard gives to the detail of the light on the costumes finds its match in the delicate constructions in papier-mâché by Sergiu Chihaia. The princess of the veil Argentina Verderame was the protagonist of a show surprised by Dora Bertolutti Howard with the experience of the woman and the photographer who understands the sense of intimacy in a woman's gestures to cover her face, as an expression of decency and shyness.

THE ARTISTS
Dora Bertolutti Howard was born in 1957 in Italy, in a small village near Udine, Faedis. She has always been a passionate photographer and she sees life as a mosaic of moments not to be missed. Often traveling, alone or as a studio assistant and photographer of her husband, Professor Ken Howard R.A., she considers herself fortunate to have the opportunity to live between London, Cornwall and Venice, heart places that are also sources of inspiration for her photos. She has exhibited in The Sackler Hall, the Royal Academy in London and she has supported various charitable works in Italy and the UK. For more information about Dora Bertolutti Howard's photography, please visit: www.dorasphotos.com
Sergiu Chihaia obtained a MFA in 2006 at the National University of Fine Arts in Bucharest, Department of Fashion, and a PhD in Visual Arts in 2013. He teaches fashion design at the UNArte Bucharest. He is a member of the Union of Plastic Artists in Romania since 2007. He began to manufacture objects in papier- mâché to entertain his children. His houses, part of a project called The Identical Different, and his penguins, the Ping Ping family, instantly became protagonists in several exhibitions and events enjoying success, both among adults and children. Born in Verejeni, The Republic of Moldova, he lives and works in Bucharest.
For more information about Sergiu Chihaia's artwork, please visit: www.sergiuchihaia.ro
Argentina Verderame graduated in painting at the University of Arts in Naples and she is the creator and director of the project "A journey of Art: The princess of the Veil". She has made urban happenings in Paris, Venice, Cairo, Vienna, Barcelona, Prague, Athens, Berlin, New York, Krakow, Zagreb, Budapest. Born in Maddaloni, Caserta, she lives and works in Venice and Naples.

THE CURATOR
Ioana Lucia Eliad, BFA and MFA from The National University of Theatre and Film UNATC in Bucharest, is a member of the Union of Filmmakers of Romania since 1996. Copywriter and senior copywriter at multinational advertising agencies, among which Centrade Bates Saatchi & Saatchi and Ammiratis Puris Lintas, she has worked for many successful advertising campaigns. Co-writer and frist assistant director of the feature-length movie Pepe & Fifi, directed by Dan Pita. She was an audiovisual adviser at Realitatea TV, Bucharest and at the Orthodox Archbishopric of Tomis, in Constanta. Between 2010 and 2015, she co- organized exhibitions and drawing workshops for children and teenagers in Venice, initiating a series of Art Workshops in Library at the Pedagogical Library "Lorenzo Bettini". Born in Bucharest, she lives and works in Venice and Bucharest.

THANK YOU
Rav Elia Richetti, Don Renzo Scarpa, Prof Univ Dr Marino Zorzi, Dr Manuela Fano, Prof Univ Dr Giovanna Nepi Scirè, Prof. Univ. Dr Paola Lanaro, Prof. Univ. Dr. Donatella Calabi, Prof Univ Dr Dan Pița, Prof Univ Dr Stere Gulea, Prof Univ Dr Laurențiu Damian, Dr Živa Kraus, Dr Tatiana Grecu, Claudio Zamengo, Dr Radu Baias, The Union of Filmmakers of Romania UCIN, Imagoars, the Romanian Institute of Culture and Humanistic Research of Venice, the Directorate of the Public Cultural and Scientific Diplomacy of the Ministry of the Foreign Affairs of Romania, Friends 

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