Simona Weller was born in 1940 in Rome. Her first drawing teacher has been Leoncillo Leonardi, who very soon recognized and encouraged her talent. After the high school (liceo classico) in Rome, she applied to the Academy of Fine Arts, where she studied with Ferruccio Ferrazzi, Mario Mafai and Mino Maccari.

During the Sixties she obtained few grants from UNESCO and so she travelled to Thailand, Egipt, Spain.

In 1961 Simona Weller married the play-writer Roberto Veller Fornasa with whom she lived and had two children: David (1962) and Micol (1964). Soon after, she chose to live in the countryside in Taizzano di Narni.

But at the beginning of the 1970s Simona divorced from her husband, and then she went back to Rome. Here, while teaching painting disciplines as an assistant of Giulio Turcato, she lived with the poet and critic Cesare Vivaldi.

In 1973 she was invited in the non-figurative section of the tenth Quadriennale of Rome. In 1974 was nominated by Giuliano Briganti for the Bolaffi Award.

In 1976 Simona Weller published a biographic investigation about female figures in the art world of the twentieth century: Il complesso di Michelangelo (Michelangelo's Complex)

In 1978 she was included in two important exhibitions: Arte – Ricerca, at Palazzo delle Esposizioni invited by Lorenza Trucchi, and Materializzazione del linguaggio, at Magazzini del Sale in Venezia, invited by Mirella Bentivoglio.

Over the years Simona Weller artistic activity has been flanked by a literary activity. Many books have been publishd such as: Suzanne (about Suzanne Valadon), Marinetti amore mio (about Benedetta Cappa), or Ritratto di Angelica (about Angelica Kauffmann).

In 2019, Tiziana Di Caro Gallery presents "La pittura è facile e difficile come l'amore", first artist solo show in its premises.

Recently her work has been shown on the occasione of: The unespected subject, 1978 Art and Feminism in Italy, curated by Marco Scotini and Raffaella Perna, Frigoriferi Milanesi, 2019; Doing Deculturalization, curated by Ilse Lafer, Museion Bolzano, 2019


Source:
Website of galleria itziana di caro, 2019
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