About Me
Orvieto 11 November 1953, Carla Pantano is born. Lived until adolescence in Rome where she attended the Virgilio classical high school, then the family moved to Palermo and then finally to Cosenza. Daughter of a teacher, in fact, her Father, Professor of Literature as well as Notary, imposes on the Daughter a rigid education with a sense of duty and foundations of solid moral principles. In his spare time, he dabbles with oil or watercolor paints. She graduated very early in Law with full marks, then became a solicitor. Back in Rome she carries out some legal activities and takes on the role of “real estate agent”, as well as condominium administrator.
Living in the very central “Campo de ‘Fiori” he had the opportunity to immerse himself in the soul of ancient Rome, creating evenings with artists in his workshop / home. She becomes a pupil of Remo De Angelis, Ennio Calabria and Antonio Vangelli. Subsequently, the tone of his existence radically changes both in color and in tonality, the birth of his only child with Autism fills the artist with pain and worry, replacing the serene life preceding an uncertain and sad future, completely abandoning his expectations of joy of dreams, of future projects, resigning oneself to one’s destiny of melancholy. In old age, after having placed Mario, his son in a suitable facility suddenly arrived bilateral coxarthrosis a disease that tends to degenerate over the years and also undergoes surgery related to breast cancer. Further pains and frustrations promptly present themselves to the artist. The relationship with art and complete expression, arrived about five years ago, presents itself as a sudden dawn in the eyes of the artist, finding in it company, comfort, and satisfaction, as well as providing a joy of life and energy to herself and trying to use it as psychotherapy, transporting it joys and pains, moods, anxiety.
Now they are released! colors, patterns, natures … in all its manifestations always preserved in the artist’s soul. Where he found the strength and peace he needed.
A big change in her life occurred when she went to Medjugorje for strange cases of fate. And as if by a miracle she felt to embrace and support, she found her lost mother, who awakened the strength of comfort in him. Anger and resentment have changed into joy and viability ‘. She met love, entered inside and as if rose petals indicated the way, the diseases were resolved with more or less complex interventions and she made her meet the right people to cure me in body and soul and dripping of blood. She went to Sri- Lanka, her adoptive mother because she had the opportunity to meet the people who helped her with Mario in the hard times because there she found her peace in the embrace of mother nature with her colors and there in contamination of the modern sick world greedy for material well-being, Island of love thanks to the sea and its unique and immortal sunsets. She began to have satisfactions in the artistic field which has always amazed her because she felt so small, she had the joy and satisfaction of being appreciated by children, the representatives of our future, having them always around is a great joy they are full of vitality and of desire to live which is a mutual pleasure to play with them while painting, with wonder they were able to create exceptional works of pure spontaneity and joy as well as an epidermal manifestation of pure energy. Many exhibitions have gratified her and come to exhibit where not even her imagination would have dreamed. Paris, Cannes, Cortona, Procida Diocletian’s Stadium, Piazza Navona, Dioscuri del Quirinale, Santa Cecilia Conservatory. He created “Carla’s living room” in Rome in the heart of Roman creativity “Campo de ‘Fiori” with painters, artists and various events. In Sri Lanka he realized his dream by creating a new life with a house on the ocean, and a laboratory, as well as a shop where he can give buyers the opportunity to buy a work that transmits “vigor”. After various difficulties she managed to build a house to take Mario with her to be able to always have him by her side, take care of him and assist him with people full of love and awareness, bringing him into the world he requested from within. Carla Pantano says “My art: color, glitter, I use everything to paint from acrylic to enamel to oil to mosaic and I often have fun with sugar, rice, pasta and even mayonnaise, jam, dried fruit. I also use shells and sand, colored glass and often also flowers, butterflies, petals and costume jewelery or hard stones. It is a game, a bet. I use my hands, fork, knife and any tool. I paint t-shirts, masks and with the printing of my works I can make clothes, curtains. I’m also interested in ceramics which, made in series, can be used for bathrooms and kitchenettes “
“Now I paint everything… with cheerful, lively colors… and full of joy and happiness! thanks to these works I transmit the love of life “
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