Alda Boscaro

About artist

Alda Bòscaro was born in Oderzo (TV-Italy) and studied at the Aigh School and Accademy of Fine Arts in Venice and at the Faculty of Medicine in Padua. She currently lives in Montebelluna (Treviso) and Rome. A former teacher of drawing and history of art at the Scientific Aigh Schools and of pictorial disciplines at the Artistic Aigh School and Accademy of Fine Arts, she has been active since 1968 in Italy and abroad with around 90 personal exhibitions and numerous participations in important shows. An international artist, she has received numerous mentions and significant awards. Her works can be found in public and private collections. One of her graphic works is kept at the Museo Nazionale delle Stampe in Rome. Since 1973 she has been present and mentioned in various Bolaffi-Mondadori painting and graphics catalogues. A solid cultural background and a consistent focus on the existential condition of men and women in today's society strongly characterise the production of this artist from Treviso. Alda Bòscaro lives immersed in contemporary problems. The event does not remain an event, it becomes an event, it is deeply experienced, in an original way, it becomes the substance of the work of art. Therefore, by scrolling through her paintings chronologically, it is possible to grasp the great collective concerns, hopes and sufferings of the last thirty years. The critics write of her: "The humanity that Alda Bòscaro expresses has essentially a feminine aspect: it is her mark, it is the guarantee of an authenticity filtered through her personality as a woman, who nonetheless fully and emblematically represents 'the man'. The discomfort, tensions and incommunicability, though present and expressed in the artist's works, find their place and therefore justification, if not solution, within an organised and ordered universe, controlled by intelligence and will, by a historical consciousness that distils from the experience of the past motives of authentic "beauty". The cycle of paintings and engravings on the themes of "Man and Environment", "Man - Nature - Culture", "Woman: identity in transition" and "Bathers" are of fundamental importance.

Most Italian newspapers and specialised magazines have reported on his work, as have various radio and television stations and RAI (Italian State Broadcasting Corporation) with special reports in TG1, TG2, TG3, GR2, GR3 and the TG1 cultural column 'Primissima'. Worthy of note is the special report on Rai 3 Veneto 'An attempt to read the world' (December 1987). The artist has recently received significant awards for his artistic activity and cultural contribution. Of particular note was her participation in the contemporary art exhibition "Linee artistiche a confronto" (Comparing artistic lines) at the National Railway Museum of Pietrarsa (NA), where she presented a series of paintings and drawings, including a portrait of Giulio Andreotti painted live in Rome in 2002. Noteworthy is her solo exhibition at the Stuttgart City Hall organised by the Italian Cultural Institute on the theme of women. She has currently been invited to the cultural event entitled "Senza terra Pomerio" with an exhibition from 22 May to 30 November, in the context of the Venice International Architecture Biennial 2021 on the Island of San Servolo (Venice). Alda Boscaro will also be the protagonist of the exhibition "Dante tra luci ed ombre" ("Dante between lights and shadows") to be held from June to September 2021, an initiative for the 7th centenary of Dante Alighieri's death at the Villa Declaricini Dornpacher Foundation in Udine (Friuli Venezia Giulia).