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 EE Cummings 
            
            
This video is a tribute to Marina Abramovic's Manifesto.  I was really inspired by this grandmother of performance art and by her words. It can be useful not only for artists but also for everybody. It's a very universal message. I hope
            you will enjoy the mood I found to represent my way. During this period "after C19" I am going to prepare some virtual exhibitions on my website and on social media, so we can keep in contact for our future life together. 
            
            
Chen Li is a chinese artist based in Italy. Her work is about poetry, nature and words.  
The place, Mandelieu La Napoule, near Cannes, on the French Riviera has a wild nature and a beautiful climate. Colors and people, multicolored and multicultural environment inspired many of the works that I made in my studio at the château.
            This land enchanted many artists and travelers of the last century by its lush nature and its mild climate, by the light and by its descreet and welcoming population, by its delicious food and above all by the freedom of democracy. 
            
Mandelieu, France, 2019 video: Chen Li music: Bensound enigmatic
            
            
 
WHAT IS CALLIGRAPHY?
            
Praise of swear words by Chen Li
            
 
            
"Swear words" by Chen Li, 2019
            
            
 Because the dirty word belongs to pop culture, I want to give it the dignity it deserves, elevate it, clear customs. A dirty word is forever.
            
            
 The slightly exaggerated decorative calligraphy is perfect for creating an incongruent duet with the message it brings. It is also a criticism of calligraphy as an end in itself, an unconscious vehicle of banal messages, or as in this case
            swear words. The power of writing ...
            
 Chen Li
 
          
          CHEN LI STUDIO - STUDIO VISITING ON APPOINTMENT, TORINO, VIA PRINCIPE TOMMASO 26A - ITALY
        SOLO EXHIBITIONS 1998-2022
        
 2022 "ArtSite Fest 2022 - Tales for the harsh days, Museum of Reale Mutua, Torino, Italy, curator: Domenico Papa
        
 2022 "Lettere dall'orizzonte temporale", SCD Studio Gallery, Perugia, Italy, curators: Barbara Pavan, Susanna Cati
       
        
 2018 “Happiness - recipes”, Museo Civico di Moncalvo, Moncalvo, Italy, curator: prof. Alberto Cottino
        
 2018 “The image-writing” - Accademia dei bambini, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy, curator: dr. Giannetta Ottilia Latis
        
 2018 "Viaggio in occidente - 西游记" - November 1-4, Zhisong, via Aosta 4, Torino, Italy
        
 2017
        
 2017 “Segni, tracce, scritture” - Accademia dei bambini, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy, curator: dr. Giannetta Ottilia Latis
        
        
 2016
        
 2016 “Chen Li”, Galerie Hotel de Clérieu, Romans sur Isère, France ,
        
 2016 “Immagine+Calligrafia – Image + Calligraphy”, ArtiSM3160 gallery, Venezia; curator: arch. Anita Cerpelloni
        
 2015
        
 2015 “Roots”, Mausoleo della Bela Rosin, Turin; curator: Chen Li
        
 2014
        
 2014 “Chen Li Works 1997-2014”, Libreria Dentis Turin, Italy; curator: Dario Paolo Dentis
        
 2012
        
 2012 “Passaggio in Cina”, Movicentro Acqui Terme; curator: Vittorio Tonon
        
 2012 “Passaggio in Cina”, Barriera Albertina, Novara; curator: Vittorio Tonon
        
 2012 “La danza del pennello”, SG Gallery, Venezia; curator: Kathy Frate
        
 2011
        
 2011 “Made in China”, WAD, Delft (Holland); curator: Paula Kouwenhoven
        
 2011 “L’eleganza del gelsomino”, Isola di San Rocco, Mondovì (Cuneo); curator: Carlo arch. Pellegrino. Presentazione di Gianfranco Schialvino.
        
 2010
        
 2010 "Made in China - get out of my mind, get out of this room", Triennale Bovisa Foundation, Milan, Italy; curator: Patrizia Rappazzo
        
 2009
        
 2009 Here, There and Everywhere: Anticipating the Art of the Future - Scriptease Chen Li + Susanne Muller – Baji, Boston, MA (USA); curator: Mary Sherman
        
 2008
        
 2008 “Di terra di parole di segni”, con Maria Teresa Frizzarin, Archibios, Turin
        
 2008 “Il sogno della camera rossa”, Banca Popolare di Novara, Verbania; curator: Marisa Cortese
        
 2007
        
 2007 “Side by side”, Biblioteca Civica A. Arduino, Moncalieri (TO); curator: Silvana Nota
        
 2007 “Omaggio a Cesare Pavese”, S. Stefano Belbo (CN); curator: Novena Molteni
        
 2007 “Chen Li / Davor Ciglar”, Rocca di Tentennaro, Castiglione d’Orcia (SI); curator: F. Chiantese
        
 2006
        
 2006 “I territori dell’arte”, Palazzo Vittone, Pinerolo; curator: Ezio Giaj
        
 2006 “Di segni e parole” con Claudio Jaccarino, Vernazza; curator: Claudio Jaccarino
        
 2006 “Frammenti” con Tino Aime, Condove (TO); curator: Emanuela Sarti
        
 2005
        
 2005 Comuna Baires, Milan; curator: Claudio Jaccarino
        
 2004
        
 2004 “Tessiture calligrafiche”, InGenio, Turin; curator: Tea Taramino
        
 2004 “Ritmi e trasparenze - Rythm and transparencies”, Biblioteca civica Geisser, Turin; curator: Roberto Emprin
        
 2003
        
 2003 “Canto e discanto”, Libreria Fontana, Turin; curator: Gianfranco Fontana + Andrea Mosconi
        
 2003 “Canto e discanto II”, Circolo Arci Il Pueblo, Turin
        
 2002
        
 2002 “Scribo Ergo Sum”, Museo della cavalleria, Pinerolo; curator: Ezio Giaj
        
 2001
        
 2001 “La Danza dei Segni”, Sala delle Arti, Certosa Reale, Collegno; curator: Sergio Bertolotto
        
 1998
        
 1998 “Tra Forma e Scrittura”, Libreria Fontana, Turin; curator: Gianfranco Fontana 
              GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1998-2022
              
2022 "Seminare nuovi immaginari- prima edizione" - Villa Vallero, Rivarolo, Italy; curators: R. Mastroianni, Tea Taramino in collaboration with Chiara Borgaro
              
2022 "Tu cosa vedi?" - Fondazione Sandretto; curator: Tea Taramino
              
2022 "International identities" - Pääkirjaston Galleria, Hämeenlinna, Finland; curator: Pirjo Heino
              
2022 "La collettiva delle collettive" - Villa Simonetto, Verbania, Italy; curators: Marisa Cortese with Vittorio Tonon
              
2022 "What does indifference mean?" - Casa Natale Antonio Gramsci, Ales, Italy; curator: Margaret Sgarra
              
2022 "Restart!" - Imbiancheria del Vajro, Chieri; curator: Silvana Nota
            
              
2021 "Le parole della terra", Palazzo Opesso, Chieri, curator: Silvana Nota
              
2021 "The yearning for the irrational" - Casa Regis, Valdilana (BI), curator: L. Mikelle Standbridge
              
2021 "40in40ena" - Palazzo Barolo, Torino curated by Sarah Bowyer, Jins
              
2020 "Formato A4 sguardo oltre la pandemia - Centocinquanta Artisti al lavoro". Biblioteca civica "G. Tartarotti" di Rovereto dal 6 al 29 novembre 2020 
              
2020 BAM BIENNALE DI ARTE MODERNA E CONTEMPORANEA DEL PIEMONTE 2020 -  THE LIQUID DECADE, Casa del Conte Verde, Rivoli curators: Edoardo Di Mauro and Riccardo Ghirardini
              
2020 CALTART Caltabellotta contemporary art project, Eremo di San Pellegrino in Caltabellotta (Sicily, Italy) August 23, 2020, curator: Antonio Sammartano
              
2020 “Movement I”, Dr Fake Cabinet Gallery, Torino, Italy. Curators: Marco Albertaro and Pablo Mesa Capella
              
 
              
2019
              
2019 “One nature one world”, Salon des beaux Arts 2019, Carrousel du Louvre, Parigi, France curator: Meadows
              
2019 “LNAF La Napoule Art Foundation”, Château La Napoule, Mandelieu, France
              
2019 “Elogio della fragilità”, NESXT Independent Art Festival, Docks Dora, Torino, Italy, curators: Maura Banfo Annalisa Cattani Susanna Ravelli
              
2019 “Vedere parole - Codex”, Complesso Monumentale San Bernardino, Corigliano Rossano (CS), Italy, curators: Teo de Palma e Ombretta Gazzola
              
2019 “Passage of Time” International Women Art Festival of Mongolia, Mongol Art Center, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, a cura di Solongo Tseekhuu
              
 2019 “
              Leonardo and water”, Festival of water purifier, MilanMay 18-19-20 – 2019 - Depuratore San Rocco
              
 2019 “
              Dialoghi su carta”, StudioDieci City Gallery, Vercelli
              
 2019 “
              Il labirinto dei simboli”, Museo de La Castiglia, Saluzzo curators Togaci and Paolo Infossi
              
 2019 “
              Le stanze delle Meraviglie, Wunderkammer”, Villa Giulia, Verbania curator: Marisa Cortese
              
              
2018
              
              
              2018 "Viaggio in occidente - 西游记" - September 20th, San Pietro in Vincoli, Torino, Italy
              
 2018 “Impronte di Artiste” – Civica Galleria d’arte contemporanea Filippo Scroppo, Torre Pellice, Italy, curator: Paola Malato
              
 2018 “Impronte di Artiste” – Kommunale Galerie di MORFELDEN -WALLDORF Frankfurt Germany, curator: Paola Malato
              
2017
              
2017 “Chiaroscuro” Rassegna Singolare Plurale, Palazzo Barolo, Torino, a cura di Tea Taramino
              
 2017 “Quelcheresta – di Milano Expo 2015”, Arengo del Broletto, Novara, a cura di Vittorio Tonon
              
 2017 “Voci visibili nel granaio”, Villa Buzzati, Belluno, a cura di Alfonso Lentini
              
 2017 “Pass-Port”, Pantarei galleria, Torino, a cura di Edmondo Bertaina
              
 2017 “here”, Cavallerizza Reale, Torino, a cura del collettivo Cavallerizza irreale
              
 2016
              
2016 “Io sono qui”, Museo Etnografico del Pinerolese, Pinerolo (To); curatore En Plein air gallery
              
 2016 “Cuore Femmina”, libri d’artista, Biblioteca Nazionale di Torino
              
              
 2015
              
2015 “Terra madre, donna madre”, La fabbrica del vapore; curator: Sguardi altrove film festival, group exhibition
              
2015 “Immagina arte fiera”, Reggio Emilia; curator: My art Gallery
              
2015 “Roots”, Mausoleo della Bela Rosin, Torino; curator: Chen Li
              
2015 Chen Li 1997-2014, Libreria antiquaria Dentis,
              
2015 Boz'art, Chateau du Bost, Vichy, France; curator: Delphine Manet
              
2015, Poezie, WAD foundation in Delft, (The Netherlands) curator: Paula Kouwenhoven
              
2014
              
2014 “Aquae-Mundi”, terme di Torino; curator: Fusion art gallery
              
2014 "Mito", Palazzo Bellini, Oleggio (Novara) - Italy; curator: Vittorio Tonon 
              
 2014 "We are more", Essen, Germany; curators: Karola Teschler and European Artists 
              
 2014 "DFEEWA", Ardud, Romania; curator: Dorothea Fleiss 
              
 2014 "Discovery", Roujan, France; curator: Tone White 
              
 2014 “Casalmaggiore contemporanea, Brunivo Buttarelli and Friends:l'arte, lo spazio, il tempo,
              
2013
              
 2013 “UNTEN. ARThaus OBEN” RAThaus Ditzingen, Germany; curator: Susanne Mueller-Baji
              
 2013 “avoin kutsu Taidemyyntinäyttelyyn orpolasten hyväksi - 15.Art20 Finland, SRK-talo RENKO, Finland; curator: Pirjo Heino
              
 2013 “
              Il gioco - nell’Arte & dell’Arte - Arte in Piemonte dal Novecento a oggi” Palazzo Mathis, Bra Italy; curator: Gianfranco Schialvino
              
2013 “Di Carta / Papermade. International Biennal Papermade”, Palazzo Fogazzaro, Schio, (VI) Italy. Curator: Valeria Bertesina
              
2013 “Le stanze del futuro” – Maionese – En plein air Museum Gallery, Baudenasca (Italy) Curatori: Elena Privitera and Marco Filippa
              
2013 “Contemporary Photobox-BAM on tour 2013” – Biennal of contemporary and modern art of Piedmont (Italy) curator: Edoardo Di Mauro
              
2013 “Il corpo solitario (the lonely body)”– Fusion Art Gallery curator: Giorgio Bonomi
              
2013 “Fare arte a Scampia” - PAN Palazzo delle Arti Napoli (Naples, Italy) curator: Antonella Prota Giurleo
              
2013 “Le donne di Cesare Pavese”, Casa Natale di Cesare Pavese, Santo Stefano Belbo, Italy
              
2013 "eva @ libera.com" - ex imbiancheria del Vajro, Chieri Italy
              
2012
              
2012 "HABITAT: dimensioni di luoghi e persone", curator: Pentesilea, Palazzo Birago, Turin, Italy
              
2012 “Profile” En plein air museum gallery, Baudenasca (Italy), curators: Elena Privitera and Marco Filippa
              
2011
              
2011 “World in change” Essen, Nordrhein Westfalen (Germany) European Artists – curator: Karola Teschler
              
2011 “Made in Italy”, WAD foundation in Delft (The Netherlands), curator: Paula Kouwenhoven
              
2011 “Zooart”, Cuneo (Italia). curator: Michela Sacchetto
              
2011 “Singolare-Plurale”, opera vincitrice segni 20x20; curator: Roberto Mastroianni
              
 2011 “Poezie”, World Art Delft, Delft (ND), by WAD
              
 2011 MAD, Villa 5, Collegno (Turin, Italia) curator: Susi Monzali per Villa 5
              
2010
              
2010 “Made in China”, Triennale Bovisa in Milan (Italy)
              
2010, AITOO - PURE, Finland, Symposium and Exhibition by Pirjo Heino & Moona Metsoila
              
 2010 POEZIE, World Art Delft, Delft (ND), by WAD 
              
 2010 “Work to work”, En Plein Air, Baudenasca (TO) by Elena Privitera & Marco Filippa
              
 2010 SCAMPIA SURPRISE, Napoli, Italy, Symposium and Exhibition by Antonella Prota Giurleo
              
2009
              
2009 “TransCultural Exchange Here,There and Everywhere: Anticipating the Future of Art”, University of Massachusset, Boston (USA) together with Susanne Mueller Baji. Curator: Mary Sherman.
              
2009 “4DELFT, Delfts Collectief, Delft (The Netherlands)“, Museum Het Prinsenhof | DOK Kunst | 38CC World Art Delft Curator Daniëlle Lokin, directeur van de Gemeente Musea Delft – ND,
              
 2009 “Fiera della Parola”, Parole per progettare, Archivio storico Olivetti, Ivrea; curator: Eugenio Pacchioli 
              
 2009 “Alda e le altre”, Maionese, En plein air, Pinerolo; curator: Elena Privitera
              
 2009 “Lapis Ludica”, Palazzo delle Stelline, Milan.; curator: Galleria SBLU
              
2008
              
 2008-2009, “E venne ad abitare in mezzo a noi”, Università Cattolica Brescia – Centro Arte Lupier; curator: Pierluigi Cattaneo
              
 2008 “Profilo d’arte”, La Permanente di Milan, Milan, Turin, Brescia, Reggio Emilia, Ferrara e Roma; curator: Milena Gamba
              
 2008 “Storie di matite”, Azimut, Turin; curator: Olga Gambari
              
 2008 “Art Factory”, Banca Popolare di Novare, Verbania; curator: Marisa Cortese
              
 2008 “Body and soul”, biblioteca A. Arduino, Moncalieri (Turin); curator: Silvana Nota
              
 2008 “The Art Box”, Cortile del Maglio, Turin – co-curator Chen Li+ Marisa Cortese
              
 2008 “Etnicolor”, Ecomuseo del Freidano, Settimo Torinese
              
 2008 “La Fiera della Parola”, Archivio Storico Olivetti, Ivrea
              
2007
              
 2007 “art20, Hungary”, Austria, Germany, Poland, Berlin; curator: Karola Teschler 
              
 2007 “Tra le antiche volte”, Anagni (FR) curator: Antonio Menenti
              
 2007 “Segni”, Cavallerizza Reale, Cenacolo Casorati, Turin – Premio GTT nominated for GTT prize; curator: Francesco Poli
              
 2007, “I linguaggi del Mediterraneo - La parola come segno” Languages in the Mediterranean – Word as sign - En plein air, Pinerolo; curator: Elena Privitera
              
2006
              
 2006, Artissima, Turin, finalist Pagine Bianche d’autore contest; curator: Teresa Macrì 
              
 2006, “Qui si sta bene – Here we are fine”, Turin, “In sede”; curator: Francesco Poli 
              
 2006, “Sharing Passions”, Palazzo della Fortuna-UniCredit, Turin; curator: Walter Guadagnini 
              
 2006, “Remake”, Maionese, Pinerolo; curator: Elena Privitera
              
 2006, “RGB Castle”, Magliano Alfieri (CN) Italy; curator: Angela Calella Benlupo 
              
 2006, “Celebrating Italian calligraphy”, Lahore, Pakistan
              
2005
              
 2005 Simposio internazionale di Fiberart, Villa Giulia, Verbania; curator: Marisa Cortese
              
 2005 “Doigts noirs”, Bruges (Belgio). curator: Roger Willems
              
2004
              
 2004 “Il segno solidale”, Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin;
              
2003
              
 2003 “Domande?”, Sala Antiche Mura, Monfalcone (Go); curator: Kathy Frate
              
 2003 “Artisti e Calligrafi ”, Macerata; curator: Kathy Frate 
              
 2003 Simposio Internazionale d’arte, Villa Giulia, Verbania; curator: Marisa Cortese 
              
2002
              
 2002 “Internationale Grote Prijs Kalligrafie”, Westerlo, Belgio; curator: Joke van de Brandt 
              
 2002 Museo all’aria Aperta, Oulx (To); curator: Tino Aime 2000 “Abc”, Palazzo Re Enzo, Bologna; curator: Ass. cult. Giannino Stoppani
              
 
              
COLLECTIONS:
              
Fondazione Prada Milano (2017-2018)
              
Museo Civico di Moncalvo (2018)
              
City of Ardud, Romania (2014)
              
Lungenzentrum Essen, Germany (2014)
              
DFE&WA Collection, Romania/Germany (2014)
              
SG Gallery, Venezia, Italy (2012)
              
 Gemeente Musea Delft – ND (2009)
              
Fondazione Museo della Triennale di Milan (dal 2009)
              
UniCredit Private Banking (dal 2005) BPU (dal 2006)
              
Centro Studi Cesare Pavese (dal 2007)
              
Biblioteca Civica A. Arduino Moncalieri (dal 2006)
              
Museo all’aria aperta, Oulx (dal 1999)
              
SMAT Turin (dal 2000) SG Gallery Venezia (dal 2012)
              
Fila matite (dal 2008) 
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