Laura Cascone
Laura Cascone is a painter and performer, her installations are based on painting although her current research practice incorporates the use of unusual materials such as canvas rolls, fabric, masks. The artistic journey of Laura began with the use of color as a primary communicative tool and then evolved into poetic research of the intimate human nature through multidisciplinary activities.
She has exhibited her work in more than 23 solo exhibitions and performances, taking part regularly in artistic events and projects, exploring alternative languages taken from theatre and music. She cooperates with public and private partners, including Museums, EU Institutions and galleries. After graduating in Political Science at Padua University, Laura specialised in Human Rights with a thesis on art as a tool of awareness. She then moved to France working for the Cultural Heritage Service of the Council of Europe and finally settled in Brussels in 2002. From 2008 to 2011, Laura worked as an art curator for the Culture Directorate of the EU Commission, proposing and organizing European exhibitions. In 2010 she concluded her sixth year at the Academy of Fine Arts and then specialized in Art therapy for two years. In 2013 she opened KROMA, a creative space supporting art initiatives.
EXHIBITIONS
2023 - Subtlety of Time, duo exhibition, Le Neuf Gallery, Brussels
2022 - TABLETTES/TABLEAUX DE CHOCOLAT - solo expo of paintings inspired by movies on chocolate for ChocoStory Museum
2022 - PLURALIA, painting performance on democracy and pluralism in BELVUE Museum
2021 - WITCHES? Project performance for the KBR Museum, Brussels Belgium
2020 - the TRAIN PROJECT realized for the celebrations of the 5th Anniversary of TRAINWOLRD Museum, consiting of two installations: the MUSIC BOOTH and the DREAM BOX
2020 - RESTLESS LOVE PROJECT - installation for the HOUSE OF EUROPEAN HISTORY within the exhibition ‘Love in Restless times’
2019 - MONTALBANO: il giallo e la luce, KOINE’ contemporary art gallery, Scicli (RG) - Italy
2019 - VIA LACTEA live installation for the PLANETARIUM (Museum Night Fever - MNF) Brussels, Belgium
2018 - KROMATIK show, a performance based on painting, music and singing realized in Espace Senghor
2018 - HERBARIUM live installation for the MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES (Museum Night Fever - MNF) Brussels, Belgium
2018 - EMBRYO in the WORLD BANK – Avenue Marnix 17, Brussels, Belgium
2016 - VERBA VOLANT - Espace Saint Bernard – Brussels, Belgium
2016 - Performance for BRUSSELS COUNCIL MUSEUMS - BIP Expo: Experience Brussels – music, dance, theatre and final installation: ‘TRIBUTE TO BRUSSELS’
2015 - PARLAMENTARIUM - Performance ‘KROMATIK’ for MNF: live painting, music, dance and singing
2014 - the RED CIRCLE PROJECT – KROMA creative space – Brussels, Belgium
2014 - TRIBUTE to ALDA MERINI – Arielle d’Hauterives Gallery – Brussels, Belgium
2013 - FIABA at KROMA, Av. Victor Jacobs 11-13 – 1040 Brussels, Belgium
2010 - TORTURE at the European Commission - AIDCO in the occasion of the International Day of the Victims of Torture, Belgium (interview on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAxBSIt7hzg)
2008 - OPEN WINDOW in EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF CULTURE, Altrimenti, 11 Rue Saint Zithe, Luxembourg
2007 - TORTURE at the COUNCIL OF EUROPE (Liaison Office with the European Union), Brussels, Belgium
2006 - SPEED at AUTOWORLD-ESPACE, 53 Parc du Cinquantenaire, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
2005 - MEDITERRANEA - at Maison du Peuple – Saint-Gilles 37 Brussels, Belgium
2005 - HORSE PARADE - realization of The Night Horse for the parade all over Belgium
2004 - LISTEN TO in the Gallery of the CROWNE PLAZA Hotel, Rue de La Loi 107 Brussels,Belgium
2003 - THE CARNIVAL OF VENICE: Info Point Europe in Antwerp, Belgium
2002 - MARGINALLY at the COUNCIL HOUSE, Padua, Italy
2001 - SILENCES: feelings without words, in the Victoria Station, Vicenza, Italy
1998 - COLOR AS A WORD within the initiative “Ferments: 1200 m. of free art” in the Centre Palladio, Italy
TRAINING
Course of Art-therapy – school of Rhapsody, Brussels, Belgium (2009 - 2011)
Academy of Fine Arts of Ixelles – Brussels, Belgium (2004 – 2010)
Course on ‘Original Handcraft Paper’ by a ‘mastro cartaio’ from Fabriano, Venice, Italy (11/2005)
Master on European integration - Final thesis ‘EU funds for cultural projects’ – Padua, Italy (2002-2003)
Course of specialization in Human Rights – Final thesis on ‘Art as a tool of awareness: an exhibition in support of human rights: Marginally’ – Padua, Italy (2002)
Master for ‘Diplomatic career’– Final thesis on ‘The Council of Europe and UNESCO in support of culture’ - Padua, Italy (2000-2001)
University Degree in Political Science University of Padua, Final thesis on History: ‘Revolution and Innovation’– Padua, Italy - (1999)
PRESS
Article published on NEWSHOUND Painting can be a tool to promote EU Values , edited by of the European Parliament , 04/04/2019 (edition 606)
Interviewed by RAI 3 for the Italian National TV programme Regione Europa, in the occasion of the exhibition Torture, Belgium 7/06/2010 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAxBSIt7hzg)
Article on the exhibition Creativity in Action2 published in Reflections, art in the Commission buildings, edited by OIB European Commission 2010, pag. 128
Article on Commission en direct, Art at the service of well-being at work edited by the European Commission, 3/12/2010 (N° 577)
Article on Settimana italiana - Laura Cascone Mediterranea published in Info Culture 49 Brussels, 2005, pag. 3
Article on Mediterranea a Bruxelles published in Il Gazzettino di Vicenza, 31/12/2005, pag. 15
Picture of the Night Horse published in the Book on Horses the VIP story of the Horse Parade Belgium 2005, pag. 118
Article on the exhibition Silences: feelings without words published in Il Giornale di Vicenza - La Domenica, 9/06/2001, pag 26
Publication in the Catalogue of the National Exhibition of Contemporary Art Efebo Award, 02/2000, pag. 45
