Peter Gallagher - producer, actor, plastic artist, Lauderdale House Arts Centre’ s director in London-UK.
“The second International Exhibition of Brazilian Art in London this year by the ICSA, brought a great diversity of style and talent to Lauderdale House.
The range of work featured Abstract and figurative painting and sculpture of the highest order, taking us on a journey of the vivid Brazilian imagination. This cultural exchange was of great benefit to all who witnessed and took part in it.
The communion between Brazil and UK through art is a pliowerful, political and cultural happening that will endure in the memory for a long time.
For the future, it is clear for us to renew our efforts and continue to work together, through this harmonious exchange.”
Peter Gallagher
(Brazil and the world, the best of brazilian art – Ed. All Print, 2009, p.24 – Published by ICSA – Instituto Cultural Século e Arte)
Vitoria Biagiolli is one of fine artists who are in the book Brazil and the World – The Best of Brazilian Art, released at the XIV International Book Biennial in Rio de Janeiro – 2009. The book was published by Instituto Cultural Século e Arte and was released, also in Sao Paulo on October 3rd.
In 2009, in London, was winner of the ICSA International Culture Award and a Gold Medal in the painting category, at the Second International Exhibition of Brazilian Art in London – United Kingdom, sponsored by the Instituto Cultural Século e Arte-ICSA and Lauderdale House Arts Centre.
In 2008, paintings from the series Constructing the Deconstruction were awarded the Gold Medal at the Second International Exhibition of Visual Arts ICSA / Unesco, in Sao Paulo-SP. The exhibition opening was attended by Brazilian authorities and British curator and chair of the Lauderdale House Arts Centre, Peter Galleger, who came specially from England to select Brazilian artists to attend the Second International Exhibition of Brazilian Art in London, in May 2009.
The series Constructing the Deconstruction proposes a reflection on how the contemporary society has been acting in their environment, and the consequences to our planet. The goal is to draw attention to the need for a sustainable way of life, which depends on us, now. Therefore, there is the need to recycle ideas and not just the materials.
The work is inspired by the urban chaos, the manipulation of images, the mass production and the pursuit of the human being by high consumption.
“… Ideas flowing, and tinted images created … the grotesque and delicate … the light and dark … the beautiful and the ugly … the force of nature and vulnerability of man … the construction and deconstruction …”
VitóriaBiagiolli/2008
In 2006, the paiting City of Dreams VII won Honorable Mention at the XVI International Exibition of Plastic Arts of the Proyecto Cultural Sur – PCSur in Bento Gonçalves – Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
This work contributed to the award that Vitoria Biagiolli was honored with – the Medal Maria Ines de Witt, by Pro-Arte de Brasília -, as Outstanding Woman of 2007 in the area of set design and visual arts. The ceremony of the medals awarding was held on April 30, 2008, at the Itamaraty Palace of the Foreign Ministry in Brasilia. At the occasion, there was a exhibition, where Vitoria participated with the paintings City of Dreams I and II.
Created from historical research, this scenery aimed a dialogue between past and present with a focus on the collection “Marie Antoinette”, created by the fashion designer Maria Fabiola for Brasilia Fashion Festival spring / summer 2007.
