Born in Rome in 1979, Flavia Mantovan at present lives and
works in Rome and New York. She graduated from the Rome
University and attended some courses of drawing and painting
at the Academy of Fine Arts. She was always found of
painting and started to paint, when, still very young, used to
write on art in local newspapers. She worked in the ateliers
of several contemporary artists in Rome and Santo Domingo
and participated in numerous group shows which gave critics
the opportunity to know and appreciate her work, reflecting
already a definite personality even though at the beginning
clearly inspired by Andy Warhol’s school. She lived in Milan,
Barcelona and Santo Domingo before settling down in Rome
and recently deciding to move to New York where she is in
touch with the most interesting personalities of the world of
contemporary art. Her style completely changed when she
faced the crude reality of a city like New York: her recent works
have forgotten the pop background of her earlier compositions
and seem to sway from a modern interpretation of the
historical surrealism to the German expressonism. No longer
reference to the Andy Warhol’s work that influenced her compositions
of some years ago. The works for her Cairo Biennale
were painted in New York owing to the grant offered by Fiorella
Nuvo in memory of her parents, Tina and Vittorio Nuvo,
that made the stay of the artist in the United States easier
