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Maria Beatrice Coppi was born in Modena, but grew up and lived for a long time in Rome. 

She currently resides and works in Florence where she has become even more established in the art world thanks to her insatiable thirst to learn the many painting and sculptural techniques that have always fascinated her. An artist of refined sensibility and culture, Maria Beatrice Coppi carried out classical studies that she was able to integrate with artistic ones only later, because in the past and in certain environments the latter were forbidden: she followed private courses in drawing (focusing on the nude and perspective) and color (including especially gouache, watercolor and oil). It was only when she was already married and had two children that the Modenese girl managed to enrol in University and study art with Prof. Ragghianti. She specialized in the restoration of paintings, panels and frescoes. In her paintings there is a lot of passion, a passion able to involve the observers of her artistic works thanks to lines and tones. Later she also attended the school of ceramics of Vainella and the school of sculpture under the guidance of the master Salvatore Cipolla, who was fundamental for the creative inspiration. The well-known Italian ceramist has often emphasized the stubbornness with which Maria Beatrice Coppi has always experienced the potential offered by the plastic processing of ceramics and especially the beauty of the polychromy obtained with neriage. To the neriage, Coppi has placed side by side the working of the ceramics to lucignolo and to slab; skillful moreover with the polychrome gres, chamotte and enamelled. Also noteworthy are her realizations in bronze, with stone and blown glass to forge heads according to a sophisticated and very difficult process but which have allowed her to achieve a very rare expressive richness. A careful observer of nature, Maria Beatrice draws inspiration from it for her works with the theme of landscapes and human figures. Paintings, those of the woman, in which she impresses and reveals all her vital energy and mastery. Such vitality and determination, however, are not surprising given that it is the Geminian woman herself who affirms <<To live is to struggle, to cry and rejoice, to know how to appreciate small things and to love. In simple words, to be aware of this path of flesh and spirit, of misery and sublime, of relativity and eternal, in the smallness and immensity of the infinite>>. Marked by two tragedies, Coppi has succeeded no less in being and proving to be strong, and therefore also to realize numerous exhibitions in Italy and abroad. Just to remember some of them, in 1969 the Collective Artisan Exhibition in Massa Marittima and in 1971 the first personal exhibition at the Galleria Il Grifo in Grosseto. Various exhibitions in Follonica (in 1974, 1975, 1976), in 1985 the invitation to the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, in 1987 the personal exhibition at the Hilton Hotel in New York and in 1988 the one at the Military Club of Caracas. For several years Maria Beatrice Coppi has even exhibited with wide public and critical acclaim in museums and municipalities. In 2005, for example, the Personal exhibition of painting and sculpture at the Galleria Comunale di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Arezzo-Sala Sant'Ignazio and, in 2017, her participation at the Biennale di Venezia-Guatemala Pavilion. In the same year, she was named Academic of Honor at the Polo Museale Fiorentino.  

 

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