About me
History
Silvia Canton was born in Conegliano in 1974. She graduated, with top marks, in theatrical scenography at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma [Rome Academy of Fine Arts]. After her studies, she worked alongside the costume designer Odette Nicoletti for several years as a graphic assistant, collaborating with important theatre and film professionals in Rome and Venice, including the director Ettore Scola.
From 2007 she developed a passion for painting, and has since been regularly and actively exhibiting with personal and collective exhibitions in the most important centres of the Veneto region, and also in Naples, Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Chicago, Miami and Shanghai.
In 2018 she was the coordinator of contemporary art events at the Fondazione Villa Emo Onlus [Villa Emo NFP Foundation].
In 2019 she was chosen by the Amorim Cork Italia to develop a pictorial study based on the recycling of virgin cork. The Amorim Group is the world’s leading of cork.
Now
The artistic research originated at the end of 2018, from the artist’s desire to find a solution that would make her pictorial subjects more material, leading to the search for an original material from Mother Earth, the virgin cork.
This raw material that cannot be used for the production of cork stoppers. The least noble and the most impure, commercially destined for milling and processed into technical granulates for the green building industry. This material is a precious treasure chest for the artist to develop an important research project that was supported by the Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche in Treviso in the solo exhibition “InDivenire.The metamorphosis of cork” hosted at Palazzo Bomben in Autumn 2021.
The research conducted by the artist presents itself as a new artistic language in the contemporary art scene, and several magazines, including ArteIn n.6-which lists her among the 200 artists to focus on in 2022 – AreaArte, Meer, Acini, Bubble’s and the art portal Exhibart, are talking about it.
The project receives the SPECIAL MENTION in the ARS (art reuse sustainability) of CORK prize of ARTE LAGUNA PRIZE 2023.
In 2020 she was selected by the publisher Edizioni Chartesia to create an introductory painting to the Canticle of Purgatory for the three-volume illustrated work of the Divine Comedy.
In 2023 she was chosen by the Chianti Classico Consortium and supported by Amorim Cork Italia for the reinterpretation of an urban work of art – one of the 7 bottles featured in the A(rt) Message in a Bottle project – entirely covered in cork grain and 3.5 meters high, which will remain on display in Gaiole in Chianti (FI) from 30 June until October 2023.
On the occasion of the 23rd Week of the Italian Language in the World with the theme “Italian and Sustainability”, she exhibited at the Gallery of the Wannenes Auction House in the Principality of Monaco with the patronage of the Italian Embassy in Monaco and the support of Monaco Italia HUB.
She currently lives and works in Castelfranco Veneto.