Lucy, Rawda, Cia , Cina, Osil - contemporary paintress
Lucy, Rawda, Cia , Cina, Osil
Besides working as an employee and being now retired, it’s clear my interest in visual arts, especially painting and graphics, passions I’ve always cultivated and that I can now practice with more punctuality.
I had a troubled childhood, mostly because of my precarious health due to polio, a disease that shows its consequences even nowadays. This difficulty in movement has motivated me to draw, exploiting every occasion. After high school, I’ve always cultivated the pleasure of drawing, but also of oil painting, trying sculture and furniture design.
I paint with oil on canvas or table, but also on other non conventional mediums.
During my first works (80s), I experimented with traditional classic figurative painting. Gradually, I’ve tried to find a more personal expression, finding inspiration in symbolic, mystic-metaphysic and even abstract concepts.
Lately, I’m getting back simplicity and variety of everyday human expressions and situations. Usually my paintings are the result of improvisation, which means that I paint without a preparatory study, not for the figure, nor the color, trying to focus the inspiring idea while I paint.
While previously I’ve been frugal with the use of the color, also due to economical reasons, today I am attracted by successive stratification and the use of glazing and brushstroke.
Vice versa, in graphic works I’ve passed from an accurate and meticulous study of the subject and an almost maniacal implementation of the first works where I’ve even used the technique pointillism, to the research of essentiality and simplicity of the line or the stain, of the immediate expressiveness and of its visual efficiency. I’m used to mix different techniques and to try unusual colorants, such as coffee grounds or mint essence.
I haven’t always put a sign or a date on my works - during the time I spent in Genoa I often used the pseudonym of Rawda or Rawda-Lucia Atzeni.
Until now, due to a kind of shyness, I haven’t done a lot to let others know my works. Nevertheless, I’ve participated in some exhibitions and I’ve even had some recognition. Now that due to my age I’m getting slower, I want to propose myself only online, at least for now.
Painting and graphics are two different techniques often competitors between them, but in me neither of them prevails over the other. In fact, they gladly coexist.
LUCIA ATZENI BORN IN CAGLIARI (CA), SARDINIA, ITALY, ON 25.02.1958
RESIDENT IN MONSERRATO (CA), SARDINIA, ITALY
C.F. TZN LCU 58B 65B 354B
CELLPHONE +39 340 1746 537
PROFESSION: RETIREE MINISTRY OF JUSTICE
HOBBY: PAINTING AND GRAPHICS
1976 GRADUATED IN ARTISTIC HIGH SCHOOL OF CAGLIARI
1977/78 SHE LIVED IN ROME WHERE SHE WAS ONE OF THE PROMOTERS OF "COLLETTIVO
ROMANO ARTIGIANI" OF PIAZZA MASTAI
1983 SHE WORKED IN CAGLIARI AS A DESIGNER AT THE "TIPOGRAFIA SERIGRAFICA" OF
MONSERRATO
1984 ENFAP CLASS WITH SPECIALIZATION IN INTERIOR DESIGN
1985/1990 SHE WORKED INDIVIDUALLY AS ADVERTISING GRAPHIC AND INTERIOR DESIGNER. AT
THE SAME TIME SHE COLLABORATED WITH THE TELEVISION "CANALE 60", DRAWIN
AND MAKING SCENOGRAPHIES
1990 SHE WAS HIRED AT THE MINISTRY OF JUSTICE AS ADMINISTRATIVE OPERATOR AND
THEN ASSIGNED AT THE COURT OF APPEAL IN GENOA
1994/95 SHE ATTENDED THE EVENING CLASS OF ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS "LIGUSTICA" IN
GENOA
1998 RELOCATION AT THE COURT OF APPEAL IN CAGLIARI
2015 RETIRED AS UNABLE
EXHIBITION
DECEMBER 1982 FIRST EXPOSITION OF PAINTING, SCULTURE AND GRAPHICS "WINTER '82"
GALLERIA 3P - MONSERRATO (CA)
(WORK ON DISPLAY: "POPPEA AT THE THERMAL BATHS")
1984 FIRST EXHIBITION PAINTING COMPETITION
CIRCOLO VERDI - MONSERRATO (CA)
FIRST PRIZE ED AEQUO
SEPTEMBER 1985 COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION OF MONSERRATO (CA)
(WORK ON DISPLAY: "THE CALEDONIAN")
SEPTEMBER 1986 COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION OF MONSERRATO (CA)
(WORK ON DISPLAY: "THE OWL")
AUGUST 1988 COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION OF PAINTING, SCULTURE AND GRAPHICS
VILLASIMIUS (CA) - SECOND PRIZE
APR/MAY 1990 COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION OF PAINTING "COMMUNICATING THROUGH ART"
"IL COLORE" GALLERY - CAGLIARI - LIONESS CLUB
JAN/FEB 1996 "THE STONE AND THE SHAMAN" - LUCIA ATZENI'S GRAPHIC EXHIBITION
PAOLO TRENTO'S TWO SCULTURES
SOUND SETTING MADE BY LORENZINA MASSA
ZENA CIVIC CENTRE - GENOA
(WORKS ON DISPLAY: "SHAMAN 1" - "SHAMAN 2" - "THE GUARDIANS" - "MUSICAL MOVEMENTS")
MAR/APR 2003 "SOLIDARITY, PEACE AND WAR"
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION OF PAINTING AND SCULTURE,
FODDIS HOUSE - MONSERRATO (CA)
SEPTEMBER 2004 VISUAL ARTS CONTEST 2004/2005
"ART ATELIER" - LA VETRERIA - CAGLIARI
FIRST PRIZE (PAINTING)
JULY 2005 EXCHANGE PROJECT SARDINIA - SALZBURG
EXHIBITION AT THE LEHEN ARTFORUN - SALZBURG (AUSTRIA)
MOSTRA ALLO ARTFORUN LEHEN - SALISBURGO (A)
2009/09 ONLINE TERN CONTEST
2011 CREATION OF THE FACEBOOK GROUP: "QUADRI DI LUCIA ATZENI"
2016 ONLINE LAGOON ART CONTEST
2016 FIRST PERSONAL EXHIBITION IN MONSERRATO (CA)
"AGAINST VIOLENCE ON WOMEN"
2018 EMILIO LUSSU CONTEST (POETRY, COMICS, GRAPHICS)
CAGLIARI (CA)
THIRD PRIZE (GRAPHICS)
