Bio

Rosalba Pedrina was born in Clusone

Clusone

Clusone is a town and comune in the province of Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy. Located in the Val Seriana, it received the honorary title of city on 15 May 1957 with a presidential decree which ratified a Napoleon's promise of the year 1801....

, Italy on August 14, 1944, during the Second World War. She was raised in Povolaro, a small town outside Vicenza in the northeast of Italy, not far from Venice. Her father was Francesco Pedrina, a professor and literary critic.

After studying painting in Honolulu, Hawaii, she returned to Italy where she showed her first work in a collective exhibition in 1971. She continued painting and, in 1981, opened a gallery called "Atelier d'Arte Studio R" in Vicenza

Vicenza

Vicenza , a city in north-eastern Italy, is the capital of the eponymous province in the Veneto region, at the northern base of the Monte Berico, straddling the Bacchiglione...

, Italy. In 1987, she started an art school for children. The studio and art school are both still in operation in Vicenza in the Palazzo da Schio on Corso Palladio.

Her artwork includes paintings, drawings, engravings, and ceramics. Most of her work has found its way into private collections in the United States, Italy, and other countries in Europe. Her work includes paintings of Venice, landscapes, flowers, and paintings relating to the sea. One of her most famous pieces (now in Italy) is the "Stations of the Cross (Via Crucis) for Persons Living with HIV/AIDS," a collection of twelve pieces originally created in 1992 to commemorate World AIDS Day

World AIDS Day

World AIDS Day, observed December 1 every year, is dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection. Government and health officials observe the day, often with speeches or forums on the AIDS topics. Since 1995, the President of the United States has made an...

. The "Via Crucis" work was last shown in 2008 in Vicenza at the Church of St. Mary of the Servants. She has also done extensive work in ceramics.

A book of her artwork, Rosalba Pedrina: Armonie di un Canto—Dipinti, Desegni, Incisioni, Ceramiche, was published (in Italian and English) in 1995.

Major Exhibitions

• Il mio mondo di sogno, Galleria Bramante, Vicenza, Italy (1979).
• Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Thiene, Vicenza, Italy (Dec. 1980).
• I Fiori di Rosalba, Studio R, Vicenza, Italy (Apr. 1982).
• Rosalba e i suoi fiori, Galleria 14, Florence, Italy (Nov. 1982).
• Venice and Music, Studio R, Vicenza, Italy (Sept. 1985).
• Venice in Mind, Studio R, Vicenza, Italy (Dec. 1987).
• Venezia Trasale . . . Emozioni . . ., Studio R, Vicenza, Italy (Sept. 1988).
• AIDS: The Stations of the Cross, Palazzo della Gran Guardia, Verona, Italy (Dec. 1992).
• Rosalba e i suoi fiori (1982–1992), Studio R, Vicenza, Italy (Dec. 1992).
• Le ceramiche - e incisioni di Rosalba (1986–1993), Studio R, Vicenza, Italy (Apr. 1993).
• AIDS: The Stations of the Cross, Chiesa di Santa Maria di Servi, Vicenza, Italy (Nov.-Dec. 2008).

External links

• More information (Italian)