“If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are, that is all the space I need as a painter.”
Willem de Kooning
Barbara Duran
Born in Rome from a cosmopolitan family, Barbara Duran is contemporary artist, painter and videomaker. She started exposing in the early ’90s, in collective and personal exhibitions in Italy and abroad. Her work is currently exposed in private and public collections, in Italy, France, Greece and other countries.
She is the artistic director of Studio Urbana, a cultural space founded in Rome’s heart center, in 2007 and dedicated to art.
At Studio Urbana, Duran curated personal and collective exhibitions, collaborating with institutions and other art galleries, and independently created and published several art publications.
About Duran’s work have written many esteemed intellectuals and artists. Among others:
- Domenico Guzzi
- Maria Teresa Benedetti
- Ignazio Venafro
- Ruggero Savinio
- Annelisa Alleva
- Renato Miracco
- Benedetta D’Ettorre
- Silvia Savoca
- Ornella Fazzina
- Marco di Capua
- Teresa Macrì
- Lele Luzzati
- Marco Bechis
- Gaston Troiano
- Anna Gioioso
- Patrizia de Rachewiltz
- Massimo Nicotra
- Marc Higonnet
- Anna Pintus
- Amerigo de Agostini
- Antonio Sammartano
- Darine Rajhi
- Simona Cirelli
- M. A. Hernando Ibáñez
- Francesca Campli
- Silvana Lazzarino
- Carla Guidi
- Manuela Vaccarone
- Enrico Morellli
- Valeria Arnaldi
- Daniela di Monaco
- Stefania Severi
White Duran Project
My WHITE project was born on a winter evening, in my countryside study, nearly five years ago. The first work realized was La grande mére, she who gives life to all creatures, symbol of strength and fertility, in its broadest and deepest sense. The paramount ancestral archetype and among the most represented figures in the history of art and humanity. Explore…
