Born in 1962 in Rome, where she lives and works, Alessandra
Porfidia is professor of sculpture at the Brera Academy of
Fine Arts in Milan. She held her first one-man show in the
Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens in Palm Beach, Fl. in 1999.
Her sculptures were shown in private galleries as well as
in public spaces, such as the 12th Quadriennial in Rome
Latest Generations (on this occasion the MACRO Museum
purchased one of her works) and the Two Worlds Festival in
Spoleto. She participated in international group shows in Italy,
France, United States, Japan and Egypt. Among the national
and international prizes and awards that she received, we
quote herunder the Fiumara-A.R.G.A.M. Sculpture Prize in
1995 and in 1998 the Suntory Prize at the Triennal of Sculpture
in Osaka, Japan. In 2000 she won the ArteMetroRoma Prize
and she had a mosaic installed in a subway station in Rome.
Between 1992 and 2006 she realized art works for the Civil
Motorization Building in Rome, the Criminal Institute in
Viterbo, the Palace of Justice in Asti and the Palace of Justice
in Frosinone. Alessandra Porfidia is an artist who has been
always working with different materials realizing large size
sculptures in concrete, marble, bronze and steel. In the last
few years she started to try out new means of expression
carrying on a new plastic research aimed at reaching more
essential and rarefied results: “environments” created with
different kinds of white papers and plastic materials that
become spaces of western meditation. Her installations invite
to speechless soliloquis and silent thoughts. Abstract and
geometric signs create environments that can be considered
“mental territories”. The work that Alessandra Porfidia
proposes for the Cairo Biennale is an installation realized with
new materials adopted by the artist with the view of creating
mental spaces inspired by the culture and the geography of
the Mediterranean world with a symbolic tribute to Egypt.
