Synchronicities
La Galleria Laboratorio Dis-ORDINE è lieta di invitarvi sabato 14 giugno alle ore 18:00 all’inaugurazione di Sincronie, mostra personale della pittrice e videomaker ravennate Manuela Vallicelli, a cura di Marcello Landi. In esposizione una selezione di opere recenti realizzate con la sua tecnica originale a pigmenti in polvere su tela, sviluppata durante gli studi di restauro pittorico presso l’Accademia di Belle Arti di Ravenna.
Dal 14 giugno al 14 luglio 2025
The Laboratorio Dis-ORDINE Gallery is pleased to invite you on Saturday, June 14 at 6:00 PM to the opening of Sincronie, a solo exhibition by Ravenna-based painter and video artist Manuela Vallicelli, curated by Marcello Landi.
On display is a selection of recent works created using her original technique of powdered pigments on canvas, developed during her studies in painting restoration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ravenna.
“Synchronicities”
Every landscape is an encounter.
An encounter between what we see and what we remember, between the present moment and an ancient sensation, between a real place and an inner one. In this exhibition, the landscape is not a mere representation of the external world, but a sensitive field where times, emotions, and memories overlap.
Synchronicities is the title that holds these layers together, synchronicities as harmonies, as temporal coincidences, as silent dialogues between what happens inside and outside of us. Each painting becomes a window onto a non-linear time, made of transitions, cycles, pauses, and resonances.
Painting, with its colors, its transparencies and densities, becomes a language to speak the invisible: the changing light, the silence that settles over a horizon, the echo of a place already seen, yet perhaps never visited. These landscapes, despite their apparent stillness, contain the movement of life, the wave of the wind, the vibration of the air, the slow breath of time.
The choice to work with powdered pigments gives these works a unique tactile and visual quality. Powder pigment is not merely a technical medium, but a symbol of passage and temporal sedimentation itself.
Synchronicities is also an invitation to slow down our gaze. The works on display do not offer answers, but openings, spaces where each viewer is invited to rediscover their own synchronicity with the world, with nature, with the time that flows within.
In an era dominated by urgency and speed, Synchronicities reminds us that every landscape, every image, can become a suspended moment, a place to inhabit, even if just for an instant.
Sede via Massimo D’Azeglio 42, Ravenna.
ORARI dal Lunedì al Sabato dalle 10:00 alle 13:00 – Venerdì dalle 15:00 alle 18:00
Biografia breve
Manuela Vallicelli si è diplomata al Liceo Artistico e ha conseguito con lode il diploma in Pittura presso l’Accademia di Belle Arti di Ravenna. Ha inoltre partecipato al progetto Erasmus, studiando presso la Facultad de Bellas Artes dell’Università di Barcellona. Dal 2003 ha iniziato la sua attività espositiva a Milano, partecipando a numerose mostre collettive e personali in Italia e all’estero, in gallerie tra Milano, Torino, Bologna, Londra, Montecarlo e Nizza.
Ha preso parte alla V edizione della Fiera d’Arte di Beijing e ha realizzato un murale per la collezione permanente del Museo d’Arte Paolo Pini di Milano, collaborando anche con la Bottega di Arte Terapia del museo. È stata invitata agli “Incontri con l’artista” dalla Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa al Palazzetto Tito di Venezia e ha esposto al MAR, Museo d’Arte della città di Ravenna, in quanto vincitrice della 55ª edizione del Premio Marina di Ravenna.
Nel 2020 ha illustrato il libro del Ravenna Festival Dolce color d’oriental zaffiro (Purgatorio I, v.13), realizzando la copertina e altre opere. Si occupa anche di video arte e ha realizzato diversi cortometraggi, tra cui il trailer Finis Mundi, dedicato a Jorge Luis Borges per il Museo della Masone di Franco Maria Ricci. Ha partecipato alla VI edizione della Biennale del Mosaico con il video Costruttori del Passato. Ravenna.
In occasione del 700° anniversario della morte di Dante, ha realizzato il video Suor Beatrice Alighieri, figlia di Dante, proiettato nei chiostri francescani e ha illustrato il gioco VianDante con 34 tavole dipinte su tela per la Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Ravenna.
Short Biography
Manuela Vallicelli graduated from the Liceo Artistico and earned her degree with honors in Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ravenna. She also took part in the Erasmus program, studying at the Facultad de Bellas Artes at the University of Barcelona. Since 2003, she has been active on the art scene, exhibiting in numerous solo and group shows in Italy and abroad, in galleries located in Milan, Turin, Bologna, London, Monte Carlo, and Nice.
She participated in the 5th edition of the Beijing Art Fair and created a mural for the permanent collection of the Paolo Pini Art Museum in Milan, where she also collaborated with the museum’s Art Therapy Workshop. She was invited to the “Artist Encounters” series by the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation at Palazzetto Tito in Venice and exhibited at MAR – the Art Museum of the City of Ravenna, as the winner of the 55th Marina di Ravenna Prize.
In 2020, she illustrated the Ravenna Festival book Dolce color d’oriental zaffiro (Purgatorio I, v.13), creating the cover and other artworks. She also works in video art and has produced several short films, including the trailer Finis Mundi, dedicated to Jorge Luis Borges for the Franco Maria Ricci’s Labirinto della Masone Museum. She took part in the 6th edition of the Mosaic Biennale with the video Builders of the Past. Ravenna.
To mark the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death, she created the video Sister Beatrice Alighieri, Daughter of Dante, screened in the Franciscan cloisters, and illustrated the game VianDante with 34 painted canvases for the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Ravenna.
Manuela Vallicelli 