ERIKA BARILLARI
Born in Genoa (Italy), she lived in Italy, Dubai, South Africa, Hong Kong and now in London.
She attended Paul Klee's High School and Academy of Art . She got the professional qualification of fresco's restorer and decoration technician.
Since then, she has developed different interests in art, strongly increasing her experience with different media types.
From 1994 to 2002 she managed her own company "O Scagno de Arti" producing: objects, mosaic,trompe l'oeil, bas-relief,decorative cement floor,faux finishes,azulejos, restoration of fresco,floor with technique of opus incertum,border and skirting decorated,faux wallpaper,paint techniques.
2002 she was in Dubai (U.A.E) at Mercato Shopping Mall and be responsible for scenic painting of exterior and interior facades and shop fronts.
In 2003 she moved to South Africa ,she worked in Ushaka Marine World in Durban.
In 2004 she's been back to Dubai to work in IBN Battuta Shopping Mall and in the Mall of Emirates until 2005.
From 2006 until 2011 she lived in South Africa and showed her fascination for the African culture in her beautiful sepia oil paintings.
Her specialty is capturing the expressions on the faces of the woman.
"The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good,your whole body will be full of light." (matt. 6;22)
All art works are original and one off.
In 2011 she moved to Hong Kong. From 2016 she live in London
Exhibition:
2007 /2008 she has been in few magazine nationwide and local in South Africa ( Garden Route Living,George Herald,One)
2007 group exhibition at Milkwood village,Wilderness,,South Africa
2008 group exhibition at the Red House in George,,South Africa
2009 group exhibition at Timberlake,Sedgefield ,South Africa
2010 group exhibition at Milkwood village,Wilderness,South Africa
From 2007 to 2011 at ArtifaktGallery,Wilderness,Sandton,Johannesburg,the Art Gallery of the Cameleon Village Hartebeespoort Dam,Pretoria, P.W. Botha Airport,George,South Africa.
2013 Bank Art Fair, Pub Art Gallery, Hong Kong
2013 Solo exhibition "Woman …is all about the eyes" , Pub Art Gallery, Hong Kong
2015 ”MADE IN ITALY:Quality & Lifestyle, Pub Art Gallery, Hong Kong
2016 "Eat The Art",Pub Art Gallery,Hong Kong
2016 "Portraits",Brick Lanes,London
2017 "Variations" Mayfair , London
2018 Armony Artweeks,New York
2018 Contemporary Venice ,THE ROOM contemporary art space.
2019 The Body Language, THE ROOM contemporary art space, Venice.
2019 Venice International Art Fair,THE ROOM Contemporary Art Space.
2019 Swiss Art Expo,Zurich.
2019 Art Basel Art Week, Miami
2020 Swiss Art Expo,Zurich.
2021 Artbox Gallery,Zurich.
2021 Swiss Art Expo, Zurich
2021 Rossocinabro Gallery, Rome
2021 Southwark Park Galleries,London
