WORKS

2010 – First Prize for a Public Work, International Majolica Festival, Albissola (work currently on the façade of the MuDA (Museo Diffuso Albissola) Museum

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Solo shows

2018 – IL PASTO BIANCO, inaugurazione opera pubblica, Biblioteca Classense, Ravenna

2018 - ROOM 60, Museo Carlo Zauli, Faenza, curated by MCZ

2017 – IL PASTO BIANCO ( mosaico di me ) curated by Davide Caroli V Biennale del Mosaico, Biblioteca Classense, Ravenna

2017 – IF (but I can explain), Nuova Galleria Morone, Milan

2017 – IF (but I can explain) Museo di Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce, Genoa, curated by Alessandra Gagliano Candela

2015 – Interno 8, La fleur coupée, Officine Saffi Milano, curated by Angela Madesani

2014 – Silvia, GAMA Galleria d’Arte Moderna Albenga, curated by Sandro Ristori and Francesca Bogliolo

2014 – Mood, PH Neutro Fotografia Fine-Art, Pietrasanta, curated by Luca Beatrice

2014 – Not Me, Musei Civici, Imola, curated by Luca Beatrice

2013 – Celeste, MIA Milan Image Art Fair, Milan, curated by Angela Madesani

2013 – Celeste So Happy, Il Pomo da DaMo Contemporary Art, Imola, curated by Angela Madesani

2012 – Nerosensibile, Studio Lucio Fontana, Albissola, curated by Luca Beatrice

Group exhibitions

2017 – PH Neutro presents PH Neutro PH Neutro Fotografia Fine Art, Siena

2017 – ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE #2, Officine Saffi, Milan

2017 – Eunique Messe Karlsruhe, Germany, organized and coordinated by MIC Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Faenza

2017 – In the Earth Time. Italian Guest Pavilion, Gyeonggi Ceramic Biennale, Yeoju Dojasesang Korea, organized and coordinated by MIC Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Faenza

2017 – Chronos, L'arte contemporanea e il suo tempo, curated by Angela Madesani, Palazzo Botti - Torre Pallavicina (BG)

2016 – From Liberty to Freedom, PH Neutro, Pietrasanta

2016 – XXIV Biennale Internationale Contemporaine, Musée Magnelli, Vallauris

2016 – La Sfida di Aracne, Riflessioni sul femminile dagli anni '70 ad oggi, curated by Angela Madesani, Nuova Galleria Morone, Milan

2016 – Arte Fiera Bologna

2015 – Imago Mundi, Praestigium Italia di Luciano Benetton, Fondazione Re Rebaudendo Torino – Fondazione Cini Venezia.

2015 – GNAM Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, curated by N. Caruso and Mariastella Margozzi

2014 – 2015 Collect London, Saatchi Gallery, London, curated by Officine Saffi Milano

2014 – ECC 2014 Danish Prize Ceramic Art, Kontakt Bornholms Kunstmuseum

2014 – Arte Fiera, Bologna

2011 – 54° Biennale di Venezia, Palazzo della Meridiana, Genoa

se io fossi lucida
photography on ceramics and video

[…]As if in a Cubist painting, a Guernica of today, legs, arms and womb are deconstructed into a jigsaw puzzle of shapes. But, unlike the effects of the tragic bombardment in Spain, in Silvia Celeste Calcagno’s works everything is orderly. The chaos and the explosions were in the soul: as narrated by the artist’s voice, sometimes self-censored, heard lightly from the lips of the eidolon-woman who is seen in a selectively unfocused video, filmed in an anonymous setting with sound recorded in situ, including some background noise. Photography, ceramics and video describe the female dimension of living: the body is dissected and filmed from various viewpoints, and water is the dominant feature, along with skin and garments. Water becomes an element, flowing in a domestic interior, where the woman is wearing her memories.

At the top of the sculptural panel, which recalls Kubrick’s black monolith in 2001 A Space Odyssey, a face appears at last, the head that is missing from the woman’s “organs” visible lower down. The head, location of thought, and also part of the heart, tells of the body and soul: the ephemeral female figure is composed, and ennobled, evoking the woman’s intimate role in a society dominated by stereotypes, in which a womb that does not generate life undergoes judgement, in the light of the forms of maternity that have been a constant presence in the history of Italian art until they were refuted by the feminists and 1970s Body Art […]

from se io fossi lucida by Silvia Campese