Artist with multiple interests, Mariangela Calabrese is a painter and a sculptor constantly moving. The essence of her activity is given by the continuous experimentation of languages: a path of contamination and projection, observation, and re-elaboration. As a matter of fact, since 1980, her artistic research is intended above all as an investigation and reflection on the artistic tradition going from the late 19th-century symbolism to the informal, up to the present day. Painting, sculpture, artist’s books, installations, environmental works, relational performances are small stages of a journey that is based on her constant desire to communicate and the imperative, felt as one’s responsibility as an artist, to give meaning to each of his works.

In 1982, after having attended the ceramics course at the State Institute of Art in Rome under the guidance of prof. Nino Caruso, she graduated in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Frosinone with honors, thesis discussed with prof. A.B. Del Guercio. In 2008, she also achieved a Degree in Visual Arts and Performing Arts with full marks, specialization in painting. Alongside her artistic activity, she joins the delicate task of bringing beauty closer to and training the new generations by teaching graphic and pictorial disciplines at the artistic high school of Frosinone.

Although in recent years she has concentrated her exhibition activity mainly in museum spaces, her works have been exhibited in collective and personal exhibitions in institutional places and private galleries around Italy (Naples, Milan, Rome, Bologna, etc.) and abroad, both in France and in the United States. She has also taken part to mail art projects all over the world.

The installation Di Legami Sospesi e Dorate Intrusioni (2020, aluminum, paper, Plexiglas) created by Mariangela Calabrese was selected by the jury of experts and is one of the 13 finalist works of the eighth edition of the COMEL “Legami in Aluminum” award.