Virginia Dal Magro is the first artist hosted in the RESIDENT PHOTOGRAPHER project (click for more info) aimed at the production of 10 “artist postcards” of our city, Rivarolo Canavese.

Bio

Virginia Dal Magro (Milan, 1994).

After obtaining a bachelor’s degree with honors in Painting and a specialist degree with honors in Art Graphics, she is currently working as a teaching assistant at the Graphics department of the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. group exhibitions in Italy and abroad including: 4th Global Print, Douro; 10×10 for, Galleria Davide Gallo, Milan; Zureta, Geidai Academy, Tokyo; Salad Days, 12 Star Gallery, Europe House, London. In 2018 she was the winner of the Menotrenta prize, an exhibition at the Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan; she was second classified at the Morlotti Prize, Museo della Permanente, Milan; in 2017 she is the winner of the Brera-Bicocca Prize, Bicocca University, Milan.
In 2020 she exhibits her personal hers at the Bandera Foundation Can’t find a way there, try again.

The project

Virginia immediately focused on the Orco, the stream that runs alongside Rivarolo Canavese. She observes it on Google Maps and wants to reach it, but she can’t get there in any way: every path seems blocked, by physical obstacles along the way or by others of an emotional nature. Her artistic reflection of her moves, therefore, to the “denied river” and its interrupted paths: she maps them with a tracking app, photographs and studies them and then reworked them through cyanotype and Gum Print techniques.

The postcards

The residency