Pia Gazzola was born on 4 June 1945 in Negrar, near Verona.
She trained in Milan, at ICART in Paris, at the Istituto Centrale del Restauro in Rome and then in Vienna where she moved in 1974 and lived for over thirty years with her two sons working as a restorer at the laboratories of Austria’s Superintendency of Museums. The experience she gained there profoundly marked her very personal artistic journey, already from 1986, the year in which she decided to “break her silence” and begin to make her own works. Her artistic vision is closely related to the themes of the “book” and in particular to the silent expressive form of nature, traces, signs, and the inquiry into the different “qualities of time”. The artist’s book, installations, photography and substantial large-scale experimental projects form an integral part of her work and artistic research.
She returned to Italy in 2004 and settled definitively at San Ciriaco in the Valpolicella near Verona.
From 2005 to 2014 she held courses in Italy and abroad with university students of The Cooper Union and New York University and, as visiting lecturer, for the Summer Studio in Otranto on the theme: Advanced architecture laboratory. Moreover, for the CEU San Pablo University of Madrid, she has held a workshop and lectured on the subject: The language of matter and the traces of time: transferences and transformations at the Palacio de Cristal, an exhibition space of the Museo Reina Sofia in the Parque del Retiro. At the Kunst und Ausstellungshalle in Bonn, she presented her wide-ranging project Capire al volo. In Verona she has held courses on the subject of the “artist’s book” at the G.B. Cignaroli-Scuola Brenzoni Fine Arts Academy, as an active academic fellow.
Her works are included in both Italian and international collections.
Available works
Available works
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Libro corde, 2015
Bound book, ink drawing, ropes,
21 x 30 cm