Chiara Enzo's works on display at the Museum of Rome for the Quadriennale's Quotidiana program

As part of the Quotidiana exhibition project that the Museum of Rome at Palazzo Braschi dedicates to Italian contemporary art, the solo exhibition of the young Chiara Enzo (Venice, 1989), scheduled from February 23 to March 17, 2024 as part of the Portfolio section of Quotidiana, kicks off in the museum’s halls, thanks to the collaboration of the Quadriennale di Roma and Roma Capitale, Assessorato alla Cultura - Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali (who are promoting the Quotidiana program).

The exhibition features a collection of small paintings that serve as fragments of an intimate and potentially infinite dialogue. Through these works, the bodies Enzo paints reveal themselves in unfiltered nudity, devoid of all artifice, revealing a raw and disarming sensuality. Chiara Enzo sets herself the arduous goal of exploring the inexplicable dimension of matter, whether inanimate or animate. The result is a kind of visual symphony, where silent apparitions stand as witnesses to a changing and fragmentary reality, inviting the viewer to contemplate the mystery of life itself.

Born in 1989 in Venice, where she currently lives and works, Chiara Enz, after completing the Painting course at the Venice Academy of Fine Arts in 2018, under the guidance of Carlo Di Raco, enriched her artistic background with a study experience at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK, thanks to an Erasmus+ scholarship in 2013. Her talent has been recognized with several prizes and awards, including theCollective Young Artists of Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice in 2017 and the Lydia! Prize for Emerging Contemporary Art in Milan in 2018. In 2021 she was selected for the Premio Ducato in Piacenza and in 2022 she was selected to participate in the 59th edition of the Venice Art Biennale.

Chiara Enzo’s pictorial approach is distinguished by her ability to offer an intimate and delicate look at the surrounding reality. Through her paintings, the artist manages to highlight the vulnerability of bodies and everyday objects, transforming the skin into a subtle and fascinating boundary between the individual and the outside world, where the secret of life itself is hidden.

The Quotidiana program kicked off in September 2022, transforming the two rooms on the ground floor of the Museum of Rome into a stage for contemporary Italian art. Conceived and produced by the Quadriennale, the program offers the public a series of exhibitions exploring the most significant trends in the national art scene. In the foyer connecting the two halls, there is a space dedicated to reading, where visitors can consult critical texts curated by the curators of the exhibitions.

The program is divided into two distinct exhibition cycles: in Landscape, Italian and foreign curators offer bi-monthly exhibitions, enriched by a critical text that reveals their deeper meanings; in Portfolio, on the other hand, a monthly space is dedicated to a young talent under 35, presenting his or her work through a portfolio curated by Gaia Bobò, curator of the Quadriennale.

The exhibition, with free admission, can be visited Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

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Chiara Enzo's works on display at the Museum of Rome for the Quadriennale's Quotidiana program

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