Annalù (A. Boeretto) was born in San Donà di Piave, Venice, in 1976. She lives in a charming house on stilts overlooking the right bank of the Piave River, in Passarella di San Donà di Piave, and works in her studio in Jesolo. Her works are included in important public and private collections in Italy and abroad.
Her artistic research unfolds within an imaginary world of metamorphoses, ethereal architecture, and visionary landscapes. Through the alchemy of synthetic resins, glass, paper, and various materials, the artist creates works dominated by a suspended dimension, a form of reverie that captures the moment before transformation. Her works reveal non-places and water architectures, spirals of butterflies arranged in mandala-like geometries, books of ice that seem to emerge from a limbo of memories. Everything revolves around the concept of threshold: the passage, the intermediate moment, the transition from one time to another and from one material to another. Annalù's work is a dynamic equilibrium that recalls the logic of alchemy, where transparency and opacity, apparent fragility and inner strength, disintegration and recomposition coexist in a continuous process of metamorphosis. His sculptures traverse a dilated, almost ritualistic time, and are placed in constant dialogue with the transience of existence, evoking fragments, traces, and memories that speak of the fleeting nature of human existence in a continuous osmosis between past and present, between what is close and what remains mysterious, like the constellations of the cosmos or the invisible particles of matter.
Throughout his career he has received numerous awards, including several Arte Laguna prizes (2007 and 2008), the Veneto Pagine Bianche Special Prize (2006), the first Stonefly prize for Contemporary Art (2008), the Ora Prize (2011), the first Opera Le Vie dell'Acqua prize (2012), the Zaha Hadid Prize (2016) and participation in the Salerno Biennale. His works have been exhibited, among others, at the GAM in Bologna, the Natural History Museum in Venice, the Rocca Paolina in Perugia in collaboration with the Burri Foundation, at Palazzo Ca' Capello in Venice, at the Palazzo Ducale in Pavullo, at the Benetton Foundation in Treviso, at the Museum of Santa Caterina, at the Archaeological Museum in Vasto, at the Church of San Francesco in Como, at the Church of San Salvador in Venice, at the Church Capitana da Mar in Jesolo, at the Rocca dei Rettori in Benevento, at the Palazzo dei Papi in Viterbo and at the MACS in Catania, as well as at the Moya Museum in Vienna, the SDAI Museum in San Diego, the VAF Foundation in Germany and the National Gallery in Singapore.
Her most recent exhibitions include Blooming at Ode To Art in Singapore curated by Jazz Chong, Dreamlike at Sconci Gallery during Contemporary Istanbul, the performance Talea with Ravagnan Gallery in Venice, the exhibition Alchemica at Punto Sull'Arte in Varese curated by Angelo Crespi, Onirica at Ravagnan Gallery in Venice curated by Alessandra Redaelli, Chrysalis at Belair Fine Art in Geneva curated by François and Gregory Chabagnan, Dreamcatchers at Cafmeyer Gallery in Knokke curated by Oliver Cafmeyer, and Encompass: Annalù / Lyés at Markowicz Fine Art in Dallas curated by Bernard Markowitz. These are just some of her most recent solo exhibitions and international projects that have helped establish her as one of the most original voices in contemporary Italian sculpture.
