Gabriella Porpora | |
Birth Name: | Gabriella Porpora |
Birth Date: | 22 June 1942 |
Birth Place: | Rome, Italy |
Nationality: | Italian |
Field: | Painting |
Training: | Academy of Fine Arts, Rome |
Movement: | Informal Art, Poor Art, Land Art |
Patrons: | Giorgio de Chirico, Francis Bacon (painter), Robert Rauschenberg, Marcel Duchamp |
Awards: | Arte Dannata |
Gabriella Porpora (born 22 June 1942) is an Italian multimedia artist who works with paint, plexiglass,[1] and wood.
Porpora was born in Rome to a Roman mother and a Neapolitan father, she founded with 12 other artists, the Gruppo 12 art movement. Her artwork can be inserted in the steps of Avant-garde art movements. Her artworks are experimental, often innovative.
She has sculpted original art-crafts called "Pictoscultures". She is still active in many exhibitions, primarily in Italy.