Nicoletta Salomon

COSMOSINNER

To speculate, meaning to observe in depth in order to see (Lat. specio, specto), provides the original

connection between the activities of scientists, philosophers, and artists engaged in observing the

world that they inhabit. As a painter, the cosmos I speculate is the inner cosmos, which I fi nd inhabited

by different planets: the planet of emotions, the planet of feelings, and the planet of thoughts.

The planets attract and repel each other in an infi nite series of forces and movements, and they seek

harmony: a kosmos, the Greek term for “order.” A cosmos, however, that does not endure in stability.

I seek to speculate about these planets by tuning my painter’s eye to their mutual movements:

I perceive their bodily shapes, breathe in their colors, measure their relationships, imitate their shifting

journeys through my brushstrokes. My canvases change layer after layer, they follow the changes of

the inner cosmos in a process that can go on for years, space and time are melded together on the

same profound surface. At times I strike upon a certain chord and movement transforms into dance.

My work captures the dance of the inner planets as they forge a cosmos, intended as an orderly aesthetic

realm that seeks to be the mimesis of a lost heavenly order: an inner cosmos worth being inhabited.

COSMOSINNERNico let ta Sa lomon

COSMOSINNERNico let ta Sa lomon

Untitled, 2013 / 2014

Acrylic on canvas, cm 161,5x207,5

Nicoletta Salomon

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Acrylic on canvas, cm 169,8x201

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Acrylic on canvas, cm 161x171

Nicoletta Salomon

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Acrylic on canvas, cm 120x180

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Acrylic on canvas, cm 105x200,5

Nicoletta Salomon

Untitled, 2013 / 2014

Acrylic on canvas, cm 161,5x207,5

Untitled, 2013 / 2014

Acrylic on canvas, cm 106x186,5

Nicoletta Salomon

Untitled, 2013 / 2014

Acrylic on canvas, cm 60x180

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Acrylic on canvas, cm 60x160

Nicoletta Salomon

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Mixed media on paper, cm 40x40

Untitled, 2013 / 2014

Mixed media on paper, cm 40x40

Nicoletta Salomon

Untitled, 2013 / 2014

Mixed media on paper, cm 40x40

Untitled, 2013 / 2014

Mixed media on paper, cm 40x40

Nicoletta Salomon

Untitled, 2013 / 2014

Mixed media on paper, cm 40x40

Untitled, 2013 / 2014

Mixed media on paper, cm 40x40

Nicoletta Salomon

Untitled, 2013 / 2014

Mixed media on paper, cm 40x40

Untitled, 2013 / 2014

Mixed media on paper, cm 40x40

Nicoletta Salomon

BIOGRAPHY

Nicoletta Salomon has a complex profi le of painter, writer, and scholar in

Aesthetics and Classics. She teaches courses in Art and Creative

writing at the Fua, Florence. She has written essays on the ancient

world and on aesthetic philosophy, among which: La zattera di

mimesis: i greci, la creazione, l’arte, Venice, Marsilio 2001, Premio

Castiglioncello – Costa degli Etruschi 2002; Venezia inabissata: un

fantasaggio, Milan, Mimesis, 2007, French translation Paris, Fayard-

Mille et une nuits, 2008. She is a translator of Hermann Hesse, Paul

Ricoeur, and Roger Fry. With her novel Questa non è una storia

d’amore Nicoletta Salomon was a fi nalist in the 2005 Premio Calvino;

in 2007 she published Storie di latte, Florence, D&D; and in 2012 Non

chiedermi niente, Cagliari, Aisara.

She studied drawing and painting at the Zeicheninstitut of the

University of Tübingen with Frido Hohberger. At present, she

collaborates as an artist with the Immaginaria arti visive Gallery

(Florence-Berlin).

Her works are represented in numerous private collections. She lives

and works in Florence.

ONE-MAN EXHIBITS• “Amor sacro”, Galleria La Corte Arte Contemporanea, Florence,

2005 (curated by Nicola Nuti)

• “Amor sacro”, Sala di Cultura de Luca, Belluno, 2006 (curated by

Pierluigi Svaluto Moreolo. Catalogue text by Davide Gasparotto)

• “Artour-o”, Grand Hotel Minerva Florence, 2006 (curated by the

Galleria Artesì, Art over Art)

• “Maternità clown” Pop Point of Presence, Florence, 2006

• “Hand Made”, Zen-zero, Florence, 2008

• “Writing in Painting”, Florence University of the Arts, Florence,

2009 (curated by David Weiss. Catalogue text by Nicola Nuti)

• “Il percorso della forma. Dipinti 2007-2009”, Lo Spirito della Rive

Gauche, Florence, 2009

• “Scrittura, scritture”, dual one-man exhibit with F. Calcagno, Galleria

Colophonarte, Belluno, 2010 (curated by Pierluigi Svaluto Moreolo)

• “Rosso tra le pagine”, Cuculia, Florence, 2010

• “Nel colore. Opere 2010-2011”, Palazzo Crepadona – Cubo di

Botta, Belluno, 2011 (event organized by the City of Belluno

and the Soroptimist International, Club of Belluno-Feltre)

• “Respiro. Opere 2011”, Etoile Toy Visual Arts, Florence, 2012

• “Trasformare”, Immaginaria arti visive Gallery, Florence, 2012

(curated by Sonia Zampini)

• “Per la danza”, Teatro Verdi, with Hamlyn Ballet School,

Florence, 2013

• “I colori di Pratolini”, Frediano 8, Florence, 2014

GROUP EXHIBITS

• “Voci da Marte”, Ex Cinema Tirreno, Castelnuovo Val di Cecina

(Pisa), 2005 (curated by Sibilla Ferrara)

• “Per Soccorso Clown”, Galleria La Corte Arte Contemporanea,

Florence, 2005

• “Art over Art”, Galleria Artesì, Florence, 2006

• “La Marguttiana”, Pietrasanta, 2006

• “Progetto Polioplus”, Teatro Saschall, Florence, 2009

(event organized by the Rotary International District 2070)

• “IoAbito”, Sam – Spazio Arte e Mestieri Vecchio Conventino,

Florence, 2009 (curated by Cristina Degl’Innocenti)

• “Spazi e linguaggi”, Immaginaria arti visive Gallery, Florence, 2009

• “Viaggio al termine della forma”, Immaginaria arti visive Gallery,

Florence, 2011

• Florence Design Week, Florence, 2011

• “110 pittori per i 110 anni di Cesare Zavattini”, Studio Quadro 0.96,

Fiesole, 2012 (curated by Paolo Bella and Aldo Frangioni)

INTERNATIONAL ART FAIRS

• Scope Basel 2012

• Art Gent - Flander Expo 2012

• Art Karlsruhe 2013

COSMOSINNER

FUA Main Campus

Corso Tintori 21, Firenze

Gabriella Ganugi

FUA President

Thomas Brownlees, Giulio Vinci

Academic Curators

Lillie Strudthoff

Exhibition Assistant

Susanna Bausi

FUA Press Offi ce

Alberto Simoncioni

Graphic Design

Special thanks to:

Federico Cagnucci

Mary Clyne

Jennifer Kelly Hoskins

Grace Joh

Luigi Munaro

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