Guendalina Urbani
Guendalina Urbani is a Roman artist, living in the province of Viterbo. Her recent work has garnered significant interest from critics, and she is represented by Galleria Umberto Benappi in Turin. Urbani primarily works with installation and sculpture, creating imaginary, contradictory, and ambiguous objects. To do this, she combines different materials in unlikely juxtapositions, subverting the real nature of the objects themselves, along with their intended use, their static, or their identity. Her work focuses on the relationship between perception and reality, aiming to create pieces that encourage viewers to consider multiple interpretations of reality itself. In Guendalina Urbani's art, the contrast between knowledge and perception reveals its ambiguities, pointing to a conceptual relationship with art.
Guendalina Urbani (Rome, 1992) has been a member of Spazio In Situ since 2018 and has been represented by Galleria Umberto Benappi in Turin since 2021. She has exhibited in galleries, independent spaces, and institutional venues, including: Italy Sotheby's International Realty, Milan – On Times (Paradise) Lost (2024); Chiesa di San Rocco, Mombarcaro – Buona Fortuna Ribelli (2023); NP_ArtLab, Padua – Unconventional still life (2022); Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Roma – Materia Nova (2021); Una Vetrina, Rome – Capogiro (2019); and Galleria dell’accademia di belle arti di Macerata – Il Bulino o l’avventura di un editore (2018). In 2022, she won the Lazio Region's Young Prize for Best Artist Under 35 at the Roma Arte in Nuvola fair. She was also a finalist for the Exibart Prize (2020), a semifinalist for Jaguart (2016), and a finalist in the "super young" section of the Premio Celeste (2016).
