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Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Raffaella Corcione Sandoval now lives and works in Rome. Her artistic vocation blossomed as she trained very young at the Sancho School of Art in Caracas. In Italy she was a pupil of the artist Novella Parigini and Prof. Emilio Maria Avitabile. She attended the three years of specialization at the Jesuit Theological Faculty of Naples 85/7, and traveled for 30 years in India deepening her philosophical thought in Buddhism and Hinduism. She obtained the qualification of Advertising Graphics in Naples and of Stylist from the Fashion Academy in Rome.
An artist known nationally and internationally, she has exhibited in Switzerland, the United States, Germany, Spain, China, Arabia and in numerous exhibitions throughout Italy. In Italy, the artist has aroused and continues to arouse a keen interest, and her works have been exhibited in several galleries and museums. She made her mark on the contemporary art scene in 2005 with the sculpture "La Sindone Partenopea," (her Magnum Opus) created in crystallized fabric, a technique she invented, also exhibited during the great exhibition IL Velo, at the Filatoio di Caraglio 2006/7 with the greatest names in Art. Her works are part of private collections all over the world.
Raffaella Corcione Sandoval rejects any kind of formal categorization and uses multiple forms of expression, from painting to photography, from video to performance, to prose, using new and original techniques. Art, science, philosophy and technology know no boundaries for this artist whose works incorporate them all in an aesthetic synthesis of human knowledge. With a critical eye, deep passion and subtle irony, she reflects on the history of man and his evolution, making her art a continuous search for new expressions that symbolize a new way of life, where man can finally be himself in his essence.
"...Her works end up giving themselves as stations of a common path rather connoted to the feminine, I would say, as if only a certain type of sensitivity was able to generate prophecy, leading us to the boundaries of a much longed-for elusive spirituality, hidden behind symbolisms that oscillate, in their manifestation by figuration, between the esoteric and the messianic".
Vittorio Sgarbi
"The Italo-Venezuelan painter possesses the genius of a creative flair that allows her to create without apparent difficulty and effort with the utmost naturalness her works so important as to be destined to make us rediscover the values of art. Through a personal interpretation of the great pictorial tradition, she works with a technique that is able to return the visible state of emotions, tending to search for an idea of purity. The work of Raffaella Corcione Sandoval, remains indissoluble in time, through a process that makes unique each of her works performed manually and with the merit of recognized master of art".
Paolo Levi
"Raffaella Corcione Sandoval refuses any kind of formal categorization and makes use of multiple forms of expression, from painting to photography, from video to performance, to prose, using techniques that are always new and original. Art, science, philosophy and technology know no boundaries for this artist whose works incorporate them all in an aesthetic synthesis of human knowledge. With a critical eye, deep passion and subtle irony, she reflects on the history of man and his evolution, making her art a continuous search for new expressions that symbolize a new Raffaella Corcione Sandoval Artist way of life, where man can finally be himself in his essence".