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Laura Fiume Large Format Signed Litho “Compeano de Licia” Framed & Mat - $150 (Escondido)
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ARTIST BIO:
Laura Fiume was born in Urbino, central Italy in 1953. Her education took place in Milan at the Liceo Artistico and at the Polytechnic School of Design where she was a student of Bruno Munari and Max Huber. In 1976 she moved to Canzo, near Como, where she learned serigraphy, ceramics, and painting from her father Salvatore Fiume. In 1983 Laura’s works were exhibited both at the Basel Art Fair and at Artexpo in New York. This initiates a collaboration with the Work’s II Gallery in Southampton (NY) which would continue until 1988. Her most important exhibitions of those years were in Milan at the Palazzo dell’ Arengario, now home of the Museo del ‘900 in Piazza Duomo, (1985), and in Venice at the Assicurazioni Generali headquarters in Piazza San Marco (1987). In 1983 Laura began her ceramic production in her father’s workshop located in a former silk mill in Canzo. Between 1990 and 1992 thanks to an exclusive agreement with Editor Kenzo Kato her paintings and graphic works are distributed throughout Japan. The 1990 exhibition at the Artesanterasmo Gallery of Milan on the theme of Mirrors was the only occasion in which she exhibited her paintings with her father. Her collaboration with that gallery has been steady since 1988.
Her father was very well known artist Salvatore Fiume (Comiso, Sicily 1915 - Milan 1997) who was an influential Italian visual artist, sculptor, set designer and writer. Originally trained as an illustrator and engraver, Fiume dedicated himself to painting in his early thirties and held his first official exhibition in Milan in 1949; though the sculptural and architectural aspect is very strong in his work, he actively engaged with sculpture much later in his life, holding his first sculpture exhibition in Milan in 1994, three years before his death.