{"id":2521,"date":"2018-12-07T16:23:09","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T15:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbarapietrasanta.info\/?page_id=2521"},"modified":"2026-06-13T18:32:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T16:32:16","slug":"barbara-pietrasanta-artista-e-comunicatrice","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/barbarapietrasanta.info\/en\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"color: #ff214f;\">Barbara Pietrasanta. Artist and Communicator. <\/span><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f9f9f9; border-left:4px solid #c8a96e; padding:20px 24px; margin-bottom:32px; font-family:Georgia, serif;\">\n\n<h2 style=\"font-size:1.1em; letter-spacing:0.05em; text-transform:uppercase; color:#444; margin-top:0;\">\nBarbara Pietrasanta\n<\/h2>\n\n<p style=\"line-height:1.7; color:#333;\">\nBarbara Pietrasanta is an Italian artist and communication designer, graduating in Sculpture from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera. She lived and worked in New York in the 1980s, holding her first exhibitions in the West Broadway galleries. Her artistic research unfolds through oil painting on canvas and fresco. Her main painterly cycles, Shipwrecks, Awakening, Risvegli and Elsewhere, explore the female figure, identity and the contemporary condition.\n\nHer works are held in the Collezione Farnesina in Rome, the Museo della Permanente in Milan, the collection of the Provincia di Milano at Palazzo Isimbardi, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in New Delhi, the M.I.M.A.C. Museo Internazionale di Arte Mariana in Alessano, the MUD Museo del Fango in Messina and the Palazzo Comunale di Tricase.\n\nShe teaches Communication Design in the Master&#8217;s programmes at the Politecnico di Milano. She has served as Vice President of Triennale Design Museum, member of the Board of the Fondazione Achille Castiglioni and of the Board of Directors of the Museo della Permanente in Milan. In 2017 and 2018 she was appointed Ambassador of the Italian Design Day by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. She is currently a member of the Scientific Committee of the Fondazione Artepassante and of the jury of the Premio Morlotti 2026.\n<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n  \"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n  \"@type\": \"WebSite\",\n  \"@id\": \"https:\/\/barbarapietrasanta.info\/#website\",\n  \"url\": \"https:\/\/barbarapietrasanta.info\",\n  \"name\": \"Barbara Pietrasanta\",\n  \"description\": \"Official website of Barbara Pietrasanta, Italian artist and communication designer based in Milan.\",\n  \"inLanguage\": \"en\",\n  \"publisher\": {\n    \"@type\": \"Person\",\n    \"@id\": \"https:\/\/barbarapietrasanta.info\/#person\",\n    \"name\": \"Barbara Pietrasanta\"\n  }\n}\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f6b88d2805e0346db9ea653afb8d439d\">I define myself as a <em>communicating artist<\/em> because I work with art, communication, and visual languages. In my poetics, these aspects are constantly in dialogue with one another, shaping an all-encompassing vision of the contemporary world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I began working as an Art Director in the 1980s, when the advertising world was rapidly expanding and there was a great sense of excitement\u2014no computers, but plenty of hands-on work with brushes and colors that set ideas in motion. A turning point came when I decided to leave for New York, where I lived for several years, because that was where things were happening\u2014long before they reached us. For me, that was real professional development: not sitting in Master\u2019s programs, but learning \u201con the road.\u201d To support myself, I did everything from waitressing at Caff\u00e8 Dante in the Village to working as an illustrator for Uptown agencies, in that city where anything could happen\u2014such as seeing Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat sparring in a boxing ring, or being served at your table by Madonna in an East Side club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-523955df78e1779274e64cf6cba8e3c8\">It was there that I defined my artistic path, with subjects charged with ambiguity and contradiction, and it was there that I held my first exhibitions, in the galleries of West Broadway. I also created several frescoes in Connecticut using the original technique I learned from an artist from Molise who had lived with the Oglala Native Americans<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d8eabca1a6efee7ee1130c63a710334d\"><p style=\"margin: 0; font-size: 16px;\"><br><a style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"https:\/\/barbarapietrasanta.info\/en\/something-about-me\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><br>Read more \u2192<br><\/a><br><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara Pietrasanta. Artist and Communicator. 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