Nadia Costantini Biography
Nadia Costantini was born in Mirano (Venice). He graduated from the Art Institute of Venice and the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice. He taught pictorial disciplines and visual education at the Art Institute of Venice. In the 1960s his painting was influenced by his abstract-informal formation, the detachment of which occurred gradually in the following decade and then the turn towards a rationality which, through geometric elements, expresses optical dynamisms matured. Cutting, uniting, grouping, tensioning, constraining bands that arise from simple geometric shapes and then free themselves in fluctuating spatial directions, this is the meaning of his research aimed at empathetically structuring space. This is how the Torsions, Surface Flows, and the Fluctuants were born, whose derivation from the pictorial work is consequent. The pictorial bands, in fact, moving dynamically in apparent three-dimensionality in the field of the painting, give rise to complex shapes that are created under the name of Surface Modulations and Surface Scans. Between her and the material, plastic (polypropylene), Teflon, PVC and stainless steel, there is a way of knowing and respecting each other, also accepting changes over time, to allow oneself to obtain different and continuously evolving forms in space: in any case to find a place elsewhere. In 1978 she was among the founding members of the Verifica 8+1 group of Mestre Venice, with which she participated in numerous exhibitions in Turin, Brescia, Bergamo, Florence, Rome, Bologna.
