Amalia Del Ponte
{{Short description|Italian artist and designer}}
{{BLP sources|date=February 2019}}File:Amalia Del Ponte alle Cave di Carrara.jpg, Tuscany, Italy.]]
Amalia Del Ponte (born 1936) is an Italian artist and designer.{{Citation|last=delponte|first=amalia|title=Amalia Del Ponte - Intervista di Mario Gamba per Notte Cultura Rai 3|date=2011-03-16|url=https://vimeo.com/21114925|access-date=2019-02-16}} Her work has been praised by critics and art historians such as Guido Ballo, Bruno Munari, Gillo Dorfles, Arturo Schwarz, Francesco Tedeschi, Flaminio Gualdoni and Tommaso Trini.{{cite web | url=https://en.silvanaeditoriale.it/libro/9788836648917 | title=Amalia del Ponte }} Del Ponte's work has been described as being suspended between art and science, through studies that investigate the relationship between sculpture, music, science and technology.{{Cite web|url=http://1995-2015.undo.net/it/magazines/1157715187|title=Amalia Del Ponte di Cristina Casero su Titolo|website=1995-2015.undo.net|access-date=2019-02-16}} Her international debut in the 1970s won First Prize for Sculpture at the São Paulo Art Biennial.{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFzai8v97TU|title=documentario su Amalia Del Ponte|language=it}}
Early life and education
Del Ponte was born in Milan in 1936. Between 1956 and 1961 she studied sculpture under Marino Marini{{Cite web|url=http://farahzadart.com/080109.html|title = ... FARAHZAD ART ... Events}} at the Accademia di Brera in Milan. Among her fellow students were Kengiro Azuma, Mario Robaudi and Gianni Colombo.{{cite web | url=https://milano.repubblica.it/cronaca/2022/09/14/news/negozio_fiorucci_milano_amalia_del_ponte-365583871/ | title=Amalia del Ponte, l'artista che inventò il negozio di Fiorucci e poi se ne dimenticò | date=14 September 2022 }}
Career
In 1965 Amalia Del Ponte made her first sculptures in Plexiglas, based on an analysis of basic geometric shapes. Two years later Vittorio Fagone named these works Tropi during a solo show at Galleria Vismara in Milano.{{cite web | url=https://www.amaliadelponte.org/AmaliaDelPonte/tropi.html | title=Tropi }}{{cite web | url=http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/1994/gennaio/30/esperimenti_con_musica_co_0_9401306877.shtml | title=Archivio Corriere della Sera }} In the 1960s Del Ponte also designed the interiors of the fashion boutique Gulp! in Milan, and Elio Fiorucci's first shop.{{Citation|last=Delponte|first=Amalia|title=Amalia Del Ponte e Elio Fiorucci - intervista di Matteo Giacometti|date=2012-04-24|url=https://vimeo.com/40928930|access-date=2019-02-16}}
Del Ponte received international acclaim in 1973 when she was invited by Bruno Munari and Umbro Apollonio to participate at the São Paulo Art Biennial, where she won First Prize for Sculpture with her work Area percettiva.{{Cite web|url=https://issuu.com/bienal/docs/namee1bdf4|title=12ª Bienal de São Paulo (1973) - Catálogo|date=December 2008 }} In 1993, Del Ponte exhibited some of her lithophones at Fort Asperen in the Netherlands.
In 1995, Gillo Dorfles invited Del Ponte to participate at the 46th Venice Biennale, with a room dedicated to her work in the Italian Pavilion.{{Cite web |url=http://www.fondazioneitaliani.it/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=698&Itemid=43 |title=Italiani - Storia della Biennale di Venezia |access-date=2014-02-13 |archive-date=2014-02-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223010702/http://www.fondazioneitaliani.it/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=698&Itemid=43 |url-status=dead }} Here she exposed an original set-up of lithophones, described as "sound stones that point out the invisible correspondences between geometric shapes, musical scales and colors".{{Cite web |url=http://www.semarweb.com/biography.html |title=Authors' Biographies [a-d] |access-date=2014-02-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140503044052/http://www.semarweb.com/biography.html#D |archive-date=2014-05-03 |url-status=dead }}
In 2010 she created a project for Certosa Island in the Lagoon of Venice; this was a series of video installations set up in the four Case Matte. The art work, entitled Regno dei possibili, invisibili, is about how art and science make otherwise invisible reality visible.{{cite web | url=https://www.actv.it/regnodeipossibiliinvisibilimostradiamaliadelponteinaugurazione26giugnofinoal26settembre0 | title=ACTV | Muoversi a Venezia }}{{Cite web | url=http://www.comune.venezia.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/37531 | title=Sabato alla Certosa inaugurazione della mostra "Regno dei possibili, invisibili" di Amalia del Ponte | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223010702/http://www.comune.venezia.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/37531 |archive-date=2014-02-23 | language=it}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.agendavenezia.org/en/evento-18651.htm|title=REGNO DEI POSSIBILI, INVISIBILI di AMALIA DEL PONTE|language=IT}}{{cite web | url=http://www.connessomagazine.it/amalia-del-ponte-regno-dei-possibili-invisibili | title=Amalia del Ponte - Regno dei possibili. Invisibili - Amalia del Ponte - Regno dei possibili. Invisibili }}
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Links
- {{Official website|http://www.amaliadelponte.org/adp/en/ }}
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Category:Italian contemporary artists
Category:20th-century Italian women artists
Category:21st-century Italian women artists