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Anita Spinelli (8 January 1908 - 24 March 2010) was a Swiss artist, painter and drawer also known for her approaches to graphic work. == Life == Spinelli was born Anita Corti, in Balerna, Ticino Switzerland in 1908, the third child of four to Gemma and Gaetano Corti. She was initiated to art quite early. Her father, a businessman in wine making, patronised several artists. After middle school she attended the Arts and Crafts School in Lugano and Guido Gonzato’s studio.〔Claudo Nembrini (2002) p 73.〕 Defying conventions and her family, she registered at the Brera Academy of Art in Milan, attended Aldo Carpi's special courses in painting and graduated in 1933. During this period she immersed herself in the buoyant artistic life of Milan, travelled to Paris and Vienna and visited Assisi, where she lived in the monastery to study Giotto’s frescos. In 1932 she married Paolo Spinelli, a civil servant and landowner with whom she had two daughters. They moved to the mansion of Pignora, Novazzano in Ticino, where she lived and worked for most of her life.〔Brazzola (2008)〕 She became an active member of the Society of Swiss Artists, Sculptors and Architects and set out her place in an artistic scene dominated by men. Invited to the XIX and XX National Art Exhibits of 1936 and 1941 her work was remarked on for her innovative mode of expression.〔Kornelia Imesch. The artist on Herself in her Work. Woman and Femininity as a Theoretical Model in the Work of Anita Spinelli, In: Cristina Brazzola (2008), p 159.〕 She had her first solo exhibit in 1938 in Lausanne. To overcome regional and cultural isolation she engaged after World War Two until the 1990s in extended travelling in the Mediterranean Basin and Europe, Africa, Central America and China with repeated and prolonged stays in the US. These travels were important sources of inspiration and have influenced her perception of light and space, which are central elements of her art.〔Angela Regli, Cristina Donati ed.(2004), Brazzola (2008) p 179.〕 During her stay in Mainz, Germany, in the early 1970s she took up engraving techniques again, neglected since art school, and through her novel approach this became a significant part of her work.〔 Later on, Spinelli also engaged in art-science projects initiated by the Lausanne University department of neurology with the task to render and visualize neurological disorders, medical gestures and different forms of pain through her artistic approach. The themes treated were "The Hand in Neurology" (1987), "Dizziness and Mouvement" (1995), "Headache|Headaches and Faces" (1992) and resulted in several exhibits and publications. The confrontation of two fundamentally different dimensions of reality (the scientific approach that aims at evidence, and the artistic and sensitive approach that elicits the invisible but maintains a mystery) paradoxically revealed certain complementaries and the capacity of art to shed light on scientific phenomena and vice versa.〔René Berger in Caroline de Watteville ed. L'Art et la culture au CHUV.25 ans d'activité pionnière, Lausanne, 2009 pp 60-64. (in French) She regularly showed her work in personal and collective exhibitions in institutional and private spaces. In 2002 a permanent display of her work has been created at the "Quadreria" in Novazzano, Ticino. Her last major retrospective was organized by the Museum of Art of Lugano in 2008.〔 Anita Spinelli died on 24 March 2010 in Mendrisio of the consequences of an accident that occurred in her studio.〔(Addio ad Anita Spinelli ), ''Corriere del Ticino'' 25 March 2010 (in Italian)〕 She had continued to create art until her death. Her work is represented in museums, as well as in institutional and private collections in Switzerland and elsewhere. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anita Spinelli」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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