"The space of my painting is a mental space. It is the dialogue I establish with the memories, tracks, music, colours and paths that interest me in life. The audience is there or has just left. I am there, in the background, always present. The lights are slightly dimmed. To stay, no matter what and in spite of everything".
Veronica Botticeli
Born in Rome, Italy
Lives and works in Paris, France
Veronica Botticelli, a graduate of the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Rome, began exhibiting in 2004 at a group show entitled "Cortilarte", organised by the San Lorenzo House of Literature. In 2006, she won first prize in the national visual arts competition organised by ANMIL and INAIL at the Palazzo della Cancelleria in Rome. In the same year, she presented a solo exhibition entitled "Ateliers d'Artista" at the Villa Mercede library, in collaboration with the Pastificio Cerere Foundation.
In 2010, Veronica took part in a number of group exhibitions before holding her solo show entitled "Un quadro nel teatro" (A painting in the theatre) at the L'Attico gallery in Rome, organised by Fabio Sargentini. In 2011, during her stay in New York, she exhibited at the L.E.S Gallery, at the CSV Center. The following year, in 2012, she was selected as one of the young artists for the 5th edition of the VAF prize, and her work was shown in a touring exhibition at the Stadtgalerie in Kiel, at the Museum Biedermann in Donaueschingen, Germany, and at the CIAC, Centre for Contemporary Art, at Castello Colonna di Genazzano.
In 2015, Veronica won the "Youth Prize" of the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca in Rome. In 2018, she was recognised as one of 222 emerging artists to invest in, selected by prestigious curators, critics, journalists and art galleries.
Veronica Botticelli's artistic work is characterised by a frozen representation of the image, presented on structured backgrounds of large fields of colour, to which she adds paper that blends with the canvas. Her works, whether on paper, canvas or government envelopes, are palimpsests, accumulating layers, erasures, presences and absences, and they speak powerfully about contemporary painting. She chooses these objects precisely for their poetic message, as repositories of personal and collective memories, evoking nostalgia for an enchanted past.