ANNALISA SCARPA PERLA
Born on March 9, 1968, in Venice, she showed a predisposition for drawing and painting from a young age.
She attended the Art Institute of Venice and graduated in 1987 as a Master of Glass.
In 1988, she enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice in the Painting course, first with Nini Sgambati and Luciano Zarotti and then with Xante Battaglia and Ennio Finzi. In 1990, she attended a photography course by Angelo Swarz, while in 1991-92, she attended Carlo Montanaro’s course in Theory and Method of Mass Media, for which she created a 12-minute animation titled “The Gift of the Sun,” based on an unpublished story by Giovanni Fabbris. This animation was entirely made with a 386 computer. She graduated from the Academy of Venice in 1993 with a thesis on the relationship between Art and Technology.
In 1994-95, she worked with the Gruppo Alcuni of Treviso as a background artist for the animations of the television series “I Tigrotti di Tele +”.
In 1996, she founded the company Kromeidon with others, where she began working as a graphic and web designer. In the same year, she participated in the International Bit Movie Competition in Riccione with studies on backgrounds for animations, where she was awarded the Jury Prize.
In 1997, she participated in the “Immaginando 97” Visioni Digitali dell’Etruria competition in Grosseto with an image titled “The Cursed Son,” which depicts a hypothetical reconstruction of the tomb of the Etruscan god Typhon located in Sovana, in the Necropolis of Poggio Stanziale. This image would become the cover of a mythological novel titled “Eternal Spring,” written by Angelo and Giovanni Fabbris and published by Firenze Libri.
In the same year, she took part in “Creativa 97,” a Computer Graphics Competition organized by the Faentina Youth Association, where she won 1st place with the work titled “The Cursed Son” and 2nd place with “Atlantis,” a study for animation backgrounds.
In 1999, she participated in a theater workshop with the company “Chi è di Scena,” collaborating on the set design and acting in the play “The Lost Days,” inspired by an idea of Dino Buzzati and directed by Samuele Reina. She also collaborated on some set designs for the play “Let’s Go,” based on texts by Cesare Zavattini and directed by Fabrizio Giacomazzi.
In 2003, she organized, in collaboration with Usarci Servizi, the 3D Graphics Course “Master in Multimedia 3D Developer” funded by the European Social Fund, which included 648 hours of classroom instruction and 352 hours of internship. She taught young unemployed individuals, focusing on the 3D reconstruction of a model of the Abbey of Sant Eustachio located in Nervesa della Battaglia, in the province of Treviso.
In 2009, she began using a digital camera.
In 2011, she exhibited at the collective art show “Lacrime del Mare (il viaggio)” at Palazzo Goldoni in the city of Chioggia. In the same year, she started collaborating as a photographer with the Francesco Fabbri Foundation at Villa Brandolini in Solighetto for the exhibition on Paul Strand and Walter Rosenblum, curated by critic Carlo Sala. This collaboration lasted for 10 years.
In 2013, she won third prize in the “Medioevo a Valvasone” photography competition and collaborated with Clodia Comix, a comic book competition for young artists held at Palazzo Goldoni in Chioggia.
In 2014, she participated in a course titled “Portraits” conducted by Francesco Fontana.
In 2015, she participated in various photography workshops, including one with photographer Mark De Tollenair on the use of flash, at the Bassano Fotografia festival with Joe McNally, and another on portrait photography with Alberto Buzzanca.
In 2016, with the Kromeidon team (Giovanni Fabbris, Joachim Thomas, Marco Musco), she was present at Avanscena with a virtual reality installation simultaneously showcased in Venice and Turin.
In 2017, she attended a photography course titled “Beyond the Rules” taught by Marco Tortato, also known as Yorik.
In 2018, she participated in a photography workshop with English artist Daniel Stier at Fabrica di Benetton.
In 2019, she exhibited light painting works at Officina Calligrafica with artists Bruno Gripari and Joachim Thomas. The exhibition was titled “The Doors of Time.”
That same year, she worked as a photographer at the 37th edition of the Asolo Art Film Festival, titled “From the Restlessness of Eleonora Duse to Post-Internet Art.”
In 2021, she exhibited light painting works in Venice at the Itinerarte Gallery from May 22 to June 30 in a collective show alongside Lorenzo Capellini, Veronica Gaido, Gaspare Manos, Riccardo Gatti, Lucfrancois Granier, and Maria Novella Papafava dei Carraresi.
She is present at the International Exhibition Bassano Fotografia 21 from September 11 to November
She exhibited at the “Laboratorio Armonie” in Via San Procolo 1/c, Verona, from June 4-11, 2022.
She participated in the 43rd Edition of the Grolla D’Oro in the Photography section from October 3-12 at Villa Condulmer and Palazzo dei 300 in Treviso.
In 2023, she created the image and collaborated as the Executive Director for the 40th Edition of the Asolo Art Film Festival titled “Restare Umani” https://asoloartfilmfestival.com/direzione-artistica/.
She created a video for the stage design of the theatrical work titled “Apoteosi,” conceived, written, and composed by Marco Giommoni.
In November 2023, she exhibited at the “Galleria Alzaia” in a show titled IM MATERIALE, which explores the boundary between the material and the intangible. In December of the same year, she participated in the International Competition “Grolla D’Oro” with an exhibition at the Museo di Santa Caterina in Treviso and simultaneously exhibited at the “Galleria Itinerarte” in Venice in a collective show.
On February 16, 2024, he will participate in the conference ‘Art, Music, and Algorithms’ with Marco Giommoni and Giovanni Fabbris. From October 3 to 15, he will have a solo exhibition at the cultural association Micromega. He will participate in the 45th International Grolla D’Oro Competition and win the 2nd award for photography with the piece ‘Sound Labyrinth’.
She currently works as Artistic Director at Kromeidon Sas.