Caterina Tosoni Biography
Caterina Tosoni was born in Milan in 1961. After art high school, interested in deepening the study of human anatomy, she enrolled in a two-year course in anatomical-surgical drawing. In 1982 she began her career as an illustrator working for important publishing houses such as Garzanti, Mondadori, Rusconi, Fabbri Editori, Peruzzo but also for the Italian Touring Club and the magazine Selezione dal Reader's Digest. Since the 2000s, Caterina Tosoni's works have been exhibited in numerous personal and collective exhibitions. His first solo exhibition, Euritmia, took place in 2009 at the Tashi Delek space in Milan. In 2012 she was invited to the Spazio Oberdan in Milan, where she presented Mutazioni Plastiche, a personal exhibition curated by Milo Goj, with a catalog and critical texts edited by Luca Beatrice. In 2016 she was called to participate in the exhibition The materials of painting at the Il Frantoio exhibition space in Capalbio, where she set up a room with unpublished works and installations. In recent years, the search for new languages has pushed Caterina Tosoni to engage with environmental art, designing installations and monumental works such as Metamorphosis in blue, an artistic-environmental intervention created for the 2016 edition of the Terravecchia project, in the village of Frasso Telesino ( BN). In February 2017 she was invited to participate in the first edition of MADE IN FORTE. Paths of art and light, a review of contemporary environmental sculpture, curated by Beatrice Audrito and Davide Sarchioni, which involved ten international artists called to create site-specific sculptures and installations in the streets of the center of Forte dei Marmi. In April of the same year Tosoni created the monumental work Material-Immaterial for Guzzini, exhibited inside the Brera Botanical Garden on the occasion of the Milanese Fuori Salone.
