BIOGRAPHY

They say about her:

“…. whoever is lucky enough to get hold of one of the images, will have a fragment of humanity, a jerk of another reality, captured by this dream bounty hunter.”   Silvio Ferraglio – Historical and Critic of Art

“Freedom of the press, with its cage, in which both the captivity and liberty concept coexist. You may see a newspaper bent over itself and oppressed by external forces in which it succumbs. Expression of an apparent freedom of information that in fact, printed paper, increasingly subject to any kind of conditioning, does not have. Outside the cage, in a continuous sense of meaning, two birds seem to talk to each other to communicate that only social integration, dialogue between the sexes, the ability to have timely thoughts can lead to a truly free world. In an inverted universe, where freedom lies where you least expect it, they are the symbol of the rediscovered independence of word, information, and thoughts that you find on your friends, tweets and the web. But a white and elegant cage generates new uncertainties: the outside and the inside are not interchangeable? This is the disturbing doubt, the enigmatic message that makes Massi’s works so fascinating.”   Maria Pina Cirillo – Critic of Art

“Rivers like flashes, like flowers (the Mappelthorpe Lilies), as silhouettes of figures and thoughts, such as electrical and electronic discharges … but above all as potentialities”.  Stefano Co – Art Historian

BIOGRAPHY
Natalia Elena Massi was born in Lucerne (Switzerland) in 1967. She lived in Mondavio (Pesaro Urbino) until the age of 26. Now lives and works in Brescia.
She always had a natural tendency for the arts and interested in everything that is relevant to some artistic form (music, dance, drawing, photography).
Beloved of photography, after attending a photography course at the IED, European Design Institute, in Turin in 2011, the passion explodes to her full leisure time.
Since then, no one day is spent without doing something about photography.
She likes both the digital photography and the analogue with which she delights to follow and personally produce the entire negative development process to fully manage the result.
Since 2019 she collaborateswith NessunoPress, a cultural association that aims to spread photography to 360°.

PASSION AS PHILOSOPHY OF OWN ART
Natalia Elena Massi believes that photography is a means of expressing what can not be seen, to tell what is felt and to imagine what does not exist.
It is not merely a representation of reality that staged the artist with her work, but an alteration of the real scene, associations and overlapping of objects to represent the larger picture which goes beyond the simple sum of different elements.

EXHIBITIONS and EVENTS

2019 – 10 may – Meeting with the Photographer: Natalia Elena Massi – Eurofotoclub – Coccaglio (BS)
2019 – 19-20 January – The woman today – Hotel Vittoria (Brescia)  Italy
2018 – 08 -16 december – CENTOPERCENTO  – Calcio (Bergamo)  Italy
2018 – 16 november – 30 december – Circuito LUCCA OFF  – Bernino Restaurant & Cafè  – (Lucca) Italy
2018 – 09-11 november – IMAGENATION PARIS –  Galerie Joseph Turenne PARIS (France)
2018 – 14 july – 30 august – INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPRARY ART – Palazzo Zenobio  – Venice (VE)
2018 – 26 may – 30 june – INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPRARY ART – Palazzo Zenobio  – Venice (VE)
2018 – 26 may – 3 june – REIMMAGINA – Rocca di San Giorgio Orzinuovi (BS)2018 – 27 april – 05 May – THE APPLE OF SIN – Spazio ‘ARTinGENIO 78’ – Firenze (Italy)
2018 – 10-25 march – ARTIST IN THE WORLD – Art Festival in Porto – Porto Art Gallery – Porto (Portogallo)
2018 – 10-31 march – WOMAN IN ART – Fondazione Mazzoleni – Alzano Lombardo – Bergamo (Italy)
2017 – november 10-12th – IMAGENATION PARIS – Espasedes arts san Frontieres PARIS (France)
2017 – November 18th– December 15th –  Solo Exhibition: Between Reality and Fantasy – Casa Panella – Iseo (Italy)
2017 – 26 June – 3 September – MA.CO.F – Give Photography a chance Brescia (Italy)
2017 – 25 June – Look and See  – Brescia (BS)
2017 – 19 June – One Shot – Villa Puricelli Guerra – Sesto San Giovanni – Milan (Italy)
2017– 25 March -18 April – UN CERTAIN REGARD – Palazzo della Cultura – Reggio Calabria (Italy)
2017– 28 January – 7 February  – PERCORSI CONTEMPORANEI – Ospite d’onore Vittorio Sgarbi Galleria Farini Concept – Bologna (Italy)
2016– 25 November -07 December – ARTE A PALAZZO – Ospite d’onore Vittorio Sgarbi Galleria Farini – Bologna (Italy)
2016 – November 10-13  IMAGENATION PARIS – Espace des Arts sans Frontieres  PARIS (France)
2016 – October – CARMINE E MONTMARTRE – Exhibition con Petite Photo –  Brescia (Italy)
2016 – September – ARTE A PALAZZO – Galleria Farini Concept Bologna (Italy)
2016 – July – L’UOMO E LE SUE DESTINAZIONI- Antica Ramiera  –  Giffoni Valle Piana  (Italy)
2016  – July – ARTE A PALAZZO – SECOND INTERNATIONAL PRIZE – Galleria Farini Concept Bologna (Italy)
2016 – 18-28 June – Lo Sguardo dei vincitori – Galleria Farini – Bologna (Italy)
2016 – 12 June –ONE SHOT  – La Divina Commedia – Palazzo Avogadro – Sarezzo (Italy)
2016 – 14-28 May  – Mostra d’arte su Dante e la Divina Commedia – Antica Ramiera – Giffoni Valle Piana (Italy)
2016 – 28 May – 09 giugno –Arte a Palazzo Nel Segno del Contemporane –Galleria Farini Concept – Bologna (Italy)
2016 – 14-28 May  – Mostra d’arte su Dante e la Divina Commedia – Antica Ramiera – Giffoni Valle Piana (Italy)
2016 – 7 May – Meeting with the Photographer: Natalia Elena Massi – Oltre lo sguardo – Erbusco (Italy)
2016 – 9 April  – Meeting with the Photographer: Natalia Elena Massi  – Gruppo Iseo Immagine – Iseo (Italy)
2016 – 19-31 March – Arte a Palazzo . The First International Prize –  Galleria Farini Concept – Bologna (Italy)
2016 – 20-26 February – Lui, Lei, L’altra – Mostra d’Arte – Sale del Bramante – Piazza del Popolo, 1 – Roma (Italy)
2016 – 30 January – Meeting with the Photographer: Natalia Elena Massi  – Museo Nazionale della Fotografia di Brescia (Italy)
2015 – from 5 to 20 December Arte a Palazzo: Espressione senza Confini – Galleria Farini Concept – Bologna (Italy)
2015 – from 17 to 25 October – Florence Biennale  Biennale International Contemporary Art Biennale. Fortezza da Basso – Florence (Italy)
2015  from January to  March espone progetto AMBIGUITY per ART REGENARATION. Brescia (Italy)
2014 October at BRERART la settimana dell’Arte Contemporanea  espone opere del progetto AMBIGUITY in una collettiva del Movimento dei CIBARTISTI. Milan (Italy)
2014 November 18 – December 22- Solo Exhibition – AMBIGUITY  – Vescovado Cafè – Brescia (Italy)
2014 May AMBIGUITY  solo Exhibition  a Necropoli Altomedioevale Ghedi (Italy)
2014  Museo Nazionale della Fotografia Light and Smoke  Brescia (Italy)
2014 Evento ONE SHOT Light and Smoke Palazzo Avogadro – Sarezzo (Italy)
2013 a Brescia presso Vigasio Store – personale Light And Smoke
2013 – Solo Exhibition Light and Smoke presso la saletta della Necropoli Altomedioevale – Ghedi (Italy)

AWARDS

2021- Primo classificato lettura Portfolio NESSUN LIMITE AL LIMITE – MANTONA
2020 – ASIA ASIAN BELT AND ROAD PHOTOGRAPHY MAJOR LEAGUE PHOTO SALON – Open Color: GPU BRONZE MEDAL– con la fotografia: Friends and plays
2019 – IPA INTERNATIONA PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD –Honorable Mention – progetto: La Felicità Effimera – Categoria: Advertising, Conceptual
2019 – Finalista al 1° GRAN PREMIO – Autore dell’anno Lombardia 2019
2019 – Portfolio Italia – Tappa Torino 4-5 ottobre – Menzione per il progetto La Felicità effimera – The ephemeral Happiness.
2019 – Portfolio Eernesto Mezzera – Chiari – 1° classificato con il progetto La Felicità effimera – The ephemeral Happiness.
2019 – Portfolio Dalmine –– 2° classificato con il progetto La Felicità effimera – The ephemeral Happiness.
2019 – Portfolio Tornado Ghedi –– 3° classificato con il progetto La Felicità effimera – The ephemeral Happiness.
Novembre 2018 – 45° PREMIO BRESCIA DI FOTOGRAFIA ARTISTICA Museo Nazionale della Fotografia  –  Premio: Brescia Oggi
2017 – IPA Internationa Photography Award – Honorable Mention – Diets. Not always thin is beautiful – Categoria: fine art, Collage
2017 – IIPA Internationa Photography Award – Honorable Mention – Diets. Not always thin is beautiful – Categoria: Advertising, Food
November 2017 – Artistic Brescia Award – NATIONAL MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY – BRESCIA  1° Prize Best  photography
July 2016 – THE MAN AND HIS DESTINATIONS – ANTICA RAMIERA  – GIFFONI VALLE PIANA (SALERNO)  1° Prize
Marzo 2016   FIRST INTERNATIONAL PRIZE DI PITTURA, SCULTURA E FOTOGRAFIA  GALLERIA FARINI – Premo per la sezione Fotografia – Bologna
Novembre 2015 Concorso Fotografico 1° Open Internazionale Torneo di Scacchi Terni  – 3° Premio
October 2015 – Concorso Nazionale Premio Fotografia Artistica di Brescia – 2 Opere ammesse.
October 2015 PREMIO “Lorenzo il Magnifico” FLORENCE BIENNALE – 3° prize  Digital Art
April 2015 – TALENT SCOUT FIAF (Federazione Italiana Associazioni Fotografiche)- Selezionata tra gli autori partecipanti al TALENT SCOUT della FIAF per un percorso di visibilità e di crescita.
October 2014 Concorso Nazionale Premio Fotografia Artistica di Brescia – Artwork Mention
October 2013 Concorso Nazionale Premio Fotografia Artistica di Brescia – Artwork Mention
August 2013 Concorso Sirmione Award 2013 – 3° prize  –  categoria Ali di Dama.

PUBBLICATIONS

2024 – Book – Brescia a year to capital
2019 – many pubblicazione all over the world for the project. VENICE 187 CM
2017  – “ditegli che sto arrivando” – photographic Book – Natalia Elena Massi
2017 – pubblicazione sul numero speciale della rivista fotografica Image Mags
2017 – pubblicazione sul Catalogo della Mostra Arte a Palazzo –Percorsi contemporanei – Galleria Farini Concept – Bologna
2016 – pubblicazione sul Catalogo della Mostra Arte a Palazzo dei vincitori di The first International Prize  – Galleria Farini Concept – Bologna
2016 – pubblicazione sul Catalogo della Mostra Arte a Palazzo –Espressione senza Confini – Galleria Farini Concept – Bologna
2015 – Dicembre – Giornale di Brescia – Pubblicazione di due fotografie sui calendari 2016
2015 – pubblicazione sul Catalogo della Mostra Arte a Palazzo –Espressione senza Confini – Galleria Farini Concept – Bologna
2015 – pubblicato sul Catalogo della Florence Biennale edito da Fausto Lupetti Editore un’opera del progetto AMBIGUITY: “Libertà di Stampa”.
2015 – pubblicata l’opera “Pausa Caffè” sul catalogo ”Obiettivo Agricoltura”
2014 – pubblicato sul libro del 60° anniversario del Museo Nazionale della Fotografia di Brescia un’opera del progetto LIGHTANDSMOKE, “Caricatura”

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