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26/10/2020 | DESIGN, PEOPLE

I FIORI DELLA MATERIA: VERA BELIKOVA

Posted by: Gisella Borioli

Eight stories, eight projects, eight womens. “I Fiori della Materia” is the collective exhibition part of “In Women’s Hands” the Superstudio’s programme which combines professional designers attentive to material and their processing. An in-depth study of their research, passion and creative power but also choices, paths and challenges they have faced in life. On show until October 29 to discover female creativity, including unconventional works and unpublished stories.
Focus on Vera Belikova.

"I come from Russia which has a Soviet mosaic great heritage and my father made some of them..."

Eight stories, eight projects, eight womens. “I Fiori della Materia” is the collective exhibition part of “In Women’s Hands” the Superstudio’s programme which combines professional designers attentive to material and their processing. An in-depth study of their research, passion and creative power but also choices, paths and challenges they have faced in life. On show until October 29 to discover female creativity, including unconventional works and unpublished stories. Focus on Vera Belikova.

"I come from Russia which has a Soviet mosaic great heritage and my father made some of them. I lived for a year in Saint Petersburg where entire churches such as the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood are mosaic covered, not to mention the metro which is all completely covered with mosaic".
She discovered mosaic as a child, beside her father, painter and mosaic artist. She learned art and technique at Saint Petersburg Mosaic School and, later, in the famous Mosaic School of Friuli leaving as Great Master of mosaic art with the desire to work in Italy. The glass tiles charm her and encourage her to do everything to promote this refined, manual, filled with poetry art. Thus, at an early age, she organized already an exhibition for 25 young mosaic artists at the private Manni Art Gallery on the lido of Venice. Then she created two mosaic sculptures in Apulia, one of which as Apulia Land Art Festival guest-artist. She won the Sprech Agorà Design Contest, presenting an ottoman with mosaic inserts which was exhibited at Brera Design District during Design Week 2018. Then she created the marble floor designed by India Mahdavi for Homo Faber exhibition. She’s not thirty yet, but she runs fast. In 2019 she installed a mosaic-covered sculpture in the center of Turin for Cavallerizza Irreale. And she took part in the Interreg V-A Greece-Italy CraftLab project, organized and supported by the European Union and Fondazione Pino Pascali. Now, while she is working with the artist Giulio Candussio, she is involved in personal artistic and design projects. I was impressed by the beauty and elegance of that unstable mosaic column which has a small clock on top, almost an omen that in a very short space of time everything can change and perhaps even crumble. It did not happen to her clock and it is difficult it will happen to her, looking like a frail young woman, but with roots firmly sunk in her cultural context and her hopes.

from left Grifo by Elena Salmistraro for Altreforme, Present-Tense by Vera Belikova and Sunrise by Francesca Gasparotti for SoFarSoNear. I Fiori della Materia exhibition, Nelle Mani delle Donne
Flooring for India Mahdavi by Vera Belikova. Marble Flooring For The Exhibition Homo Faber, 2018
Windows on the future by Vera Belikova for Artist-In-Residence “GravInArte”, 2018. ph Elisabetta Pasanisi, Massimiliano Di Mario
ALVI by Vera Belikova, outdoor Pouf In Aluminium With Mosaic Inlays. In collaboration with Leonardo Mercurio, 2018

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